Venezuelan Colonel Urges Soldiers To Help US Aid Enter, Says 90% Of Army Against Maduro

The latest senior military officer to defect from the Nicolas Maduro government claims that 90% of the armed forces are "unhappy" with Maduro and stand ready to defect, according to The Times.

Colonel Rubén Paz Jimenez posted a short video to social media over the weekend declaring his support for US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó. “Ninety per cent of us in the armed forces are really unhappy,” he said in the video message. “We are being used to keep them in power.” He further urged soldiers to resist orders to block humanitarian aid shipped by the United States and to instead facilitate its entry into the country.

According to The Times Col. Paz is a military doctor and appears to be taking advantage of Guaido's offer of amnesty to army officers who switch loyalties to him as interim president:

A stockpile of US aid — medicines, medical equipment and nutritional supplements — is in the Colombian border city of Cucuta. Colonel Paz, a doctor, urged soldiers to help the aid get into Venezuela. Mr Guaidó has offered amnesty to those in the army who abandon Mr Maduro, 56, peacefully.

He's been further described as deputy of the Directorate of the Military Hospital in Maracaibo and the timing of his defection is interesting given the contested issue of US humanitarian aid.

Trump administration officials like John Bolton have also of late actively encouraged Venezuelan military defections, something that so far has been limited to a tiny handful of officers, at least one of them an Air Force commander — while also attempting to force the issue of American aid delivery.

Colonel Ruben Paz Jimenez, deputy of the Directorate of the Military Hospital in Maracaibo, announced his support for Guaido and urged others to follow:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-11/venezuelan-colonel-urges-soldiers-let-us-aid-enter-says-90-army-against-maduro

USAID IS CABAL, SAME ONES SUPPORTING THE CARAVANS

>>5126594

Exactly

16 civilians, including 7 children, killed in US-led coalition air raid in Syria

At least 16 people, including seven children, have been killed in an air strike launched by the US-led coalition in a rural region south east of the Syrian city of Deir-ez Zor, Syrian news agency SANA reports.

The air raid targeted a residential area on the outskirts of the town of Al-Baghuz in the south-eastern part of Syria, the state news agency said, citing local sources.

The town is located in the Euphrates River valley, close to the Syrian border with Iraq, some 128 km from Deir-ez Zor.

Over the course of the Syrian conflict, Al-Baghuz was captured by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists, who held it for several years until it was seized by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – a broad coalition of armed groups supported by the US and its allies – late last month.

A member of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) walks near a military vehicle near Baghouz © REUTERS/ Rodi Said

However, the town was soon partially recaptured by the terrorists, prompting the US-led coalition to start bombing its outskirts.

https://www.rt.com/news/451226-syria-strike-us-coalition/

Spain: Tens of thousands join right-wing rally in Madrid, demand socialist PM to resign

Some 45,000 people joined a right-wing rally in Spain’s capital Sunday to demand that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez step down for his handling of the Catalonia region’s secession crisis.

Many in the crowd assembled in Madrid’s Plaza de Colon waved the national flag and chanted slogans in support of Spain’s security forces along with calling for the Socialist prime minister’s resignation.

The conservative opposition Popular Party and the center-right Citizens party organised the rally, which the upstart far-right Vox party and other far-right parties backed.

“The time of Sanchez’s government is over”, Popular Party president Pablo Casado said. He asked voters to punish Sanchez’s Socialists in the European, local and regional elections in May.

The political tensions come as a highly sensitive trial at Spain’s Supreme Court starts Tuesday for 12 Catalan separatists who face charges, including rebellion, for their roles in a failed secession attempt in 2017.

Sanchez inherited the Catalan conflict from former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, the then-leader of the Popular Party. Rajoy proved incapable of stopping support for secession from swelling in Catalonia to roughly half of the northeastern region’s voters.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6688321/Madrid-protests-against-Spanish-governments-plans-call-talks-Catalan-separatists.html

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/spain-tens-of-thousands-join-right-wing-rally-in-madrid-demand-socialist-pm-resign/

>>5126726

Another one of (((them))) he's a Marxist version but one common thread between the Marxists and the Zionists (((they))) ALL kiss Israel's ass!!!!