BOA VISTA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd February, 2019) Brazil will stop airlifting aid to the town of Pacaraima on Venezuela's border until further notice, its military said Friday during a press briefing at the Boa Vista air base.
"We will continue to collect humanitarian aid in a hangar in this city [Boa Vista] but will not send it on to Pacaraima," Brazilian Air Force sources told reporters.
An Air Force plane carrying 23 tonnes of milk powder and 500 first aid kits landed at the Boa Vista base in the northern Roraima state earlier on Friday. Three trucks with 51 tonnes of rice and sugar arrived there a day before.
The Venezuelan opposition set February 23 as the date for bringing in US relief aid that had been collected at logistics hubs in Brazil's Roraima, Colombia's Cucuta and on the Caribbean island of Curacao.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described the plan as a prelude for invasion and promised to stop the aid from entering. He is backed by Russia, China, Bolivia, Mexico and several others.
