PACARAIMA (Brazil) (Pakistan Point news / Sputnik - 24th February, 2019) A group of radicals in the Brazilian town of Pacaraima attacked the Venezuelan border post and set the Venezuelan National Guard's vehicle on fire amid the escalating crisis with aid deliveries to Venezuela on Saturday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
The attackers also hurled stones and sticks at the National Guard officers, which, in turn, used tear gas.
Some tear gas grenades hit the territory of Brazil, which prompted the protesters to demand that the Brazilian military take action.
The report comes as the Venezuelan opposition led by self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido was seeking to ensure deliveries of the US-sponsored humanitarian aid to the country via neighboring Brazil and Colombia on Saturday, which resulted in numerous clashes.
Amid the opposition's attempts to force unauthorized aid deliveries into the country, the legitimate president, Nicolas Maduro, severed diplomatic and political relations with Colombia, while the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry announced that Colombian diplomats must leave the country in 24 hours.
Maduro, who slammed the aid deliveries as a ploy to topple his government, previously closed the land border with Brazil and the sea border with the Lesser Antilles and then shut several border crossings with Colombia.
