Venezuela is closing its border with Brazil. Is Colombia next?

(CNN)Nicolas Maduro will close Venezuela’s border with Brazil, as tensions over foreign aid deliveries rise. The embattled President also is considering closing the border with Colombia — a move that would seal off most of Venezuela’s inland periphery.

In a televised speech Thursday, Maduro announced the Brazil border closure and warned against trying to bring humanitarian supplies into Venezuela by force. “I don’t want to make such a decision, but I am considering it — an absolute closure of the border with Colombia,” he said. “We have taken all the measures so that everything can be peaceful,” he added.
Foreign aid is currently being assembled in both Brazil and Colombia for hungry Venezuelans, at the call of opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido. Despite accepting aid from the United Nations last year, Maduro opposes the new aid shipments and has described the opposition’s aid campaign as “a provocation.”

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