With the number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases climbing daily in politically and economically downtrodden Venezuela and its citizens in “dire” need of help, the United States last week reiterated its plea to that country’s President Nicholas Maduro to allow it to take in humanitarian aid.
The call came even as Guyana continues to man its porous borders with Venezuela situated to the east and from which hundreds of that country’s citizens have already fled here to escape political instability and economic and social hardships.
The US State Department has stressed that “pandemics do not respect national borders.”