tl;dr

Last night a Electrical substation exploded in Maracaibo, leaving the city without power

Based boomer

El Nacional:
>Guaidó announced the creation of a commission to cooperate with international agencies in the fight against drug trafficking
— "The president in charge of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, announced the creation of the Special Commission for Police Security and Intelligence to Cooperate with International Agencies.

Guaidó explained that this commission, made up of David Smolansky, Carlos Paparoni and Iván Simonovis, must present a proposal to resume treaties with the DEA."

https://www.elnacional.com/venezuela/guaido-anuncio-creacion-de-comision-para-cooperar-con-agencias-internacionales-en-la-lucha-contra-el-narcotrafico/

Boomer waffen confim?

Venezuelan doctors languish in fuel lines amid coronavirus pandemic

Venezuela's acute fuel shortages are leaving medical professionals stuck in gas lines or struggling to reach their place of work just as the coronavirus outbreak threatens to overwhelm the crisis-stricken country's battered health system.

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Venezuelan migrants quarantined in crowded shelters as they return home

SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela - Thousands of Venezuelan migrants who have returned to their country this month amid the coronavirus epidemic have been ordered into quarantine in makeshift shelters along the border, according to officials and rights activists.

➖ @ReutersWorldChannel ➖

Panorama:
>More than 2,000 Venezuelans have returned from Colombia in the last 48 hours
— "More than 2,000 Venezuelan migrants returned to the country in the last two days through Colombia and thousands more are expected to follow in the midst of the socio-economic crisis unleashed by the Covid-19 pandemic, said Freddy Bernal on Tuesday 7-A.

"In the last 48 hours, after quarantine was decreed for everyone who enters from Colombia, 2,135 Venezuelans have entered," said Bernal, the authority designated by President Nicolás Maduro for Táchira, bordering Cúcuta."

https://www.panorama.com.ve/ciudad/Mas-de-2.000-venezolanos-han-regresado-desde-Colombia-en-las-ultimas-48-horas-20200407-0050.html

— Also on Last night, Aircraft of the US' DEA during a "anti-drug operations" were flying over the Caribbean Sea, at south of Puerto Rico, at 8500ft flying in parallel on direction of Venezuelan Coast.

Panorama:
>Wiliam Brownfield: "I don't think military intervention will happen"
— "Wiliam Brownfield, former US ambassador to Venezuela, and who for almost a decade was in charge of anti-drug policy at the State Department, discussed Washington's new strategy to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power.

This new plan includes accusations of drug trafficking against the Venezuelan head of state, the payment of millionaire rewards, anti-drug military operations in the Caribbean Sea and a transition plan without Maduro or opposition leader Juan Guaidó.

In an interview with the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo, Brownfield said that the US government maintains the so-called "military option" over Venezuela, but not necessarily the same as the one it applied against Manuel Noriega in Panama in 1989."

https://www.panorama.com.ve/politicayeconomia/Wiliam-Brownfield-No-creo-que-la-intervencion-militar-vaya-a-suceder-20200408-0008.html

It's heading for Caracas

🇻🇪 Venezuelan Journalist (thread):
—"The U.S. special representative to Venezuela Elliott Abrams said that several people in and out Maduro’s regime are reaching out to the U.S. Government about its proposal for a transitional government"
—"“Maybe people in the regime recognize what they did not recognize last summer, that the situation is very difficult, that they must look for a way out and they must look for a negotiation,” Abrams said in an interview with the Center for Strategic and International Studies"
—"Abrams said offering guarantees to the military makes a negotiation more likely

“Venezuela must move toward free elections”

Abrams said there are also military options if President Donald Trump wants to use them"

🔗 Álex Vásquez S (@AlexVasquezS)

#Venezuela #Diplomacy