Venezuelan troops on Friday killed two indigenous villagers attempting to block their convoy from reaching the Venezuela–Brazil border, where, the villagers believed, the troops planned to prevent humanitarian aid from entering the country.The troop convoy entered the indigenous village of Kumarakapay and fired on a group of residents attempting to block their path, killing one woman, Zoraida Rodriguez, and one man, Roland Garcia, and injuring many others, community leaders told the New York Post.Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro has closed the country's border with Brazil and has threatened to do the same to the Colombian border in order to prevent desperately needed stockpiles of food and medical supplies from entering the country. Maduro has cast the humanitarian aid donated by the U.S. and other nations as a political ploy meant to impugn his credibility, and has even claimed the aid is intended to serve as a pretext for foreign invasion.Opposition leader Juan Guaidó, th...
