As coronavirus explodes in Venezuela, Maduro’s government blames ‘biological weapon’: the country’s returning refugees

The “biological” threat was gathering on the western border, Venezuela’s socialist government claimed. So, besieged President Nicolás Maduro, ever vigilant against potential invasion, dispatched gun-toting reinforcements to the frontier. The 57-year-old authoritarian wasn’t worried about the Colombian army. Rather, he was targeting his own people — Venezuelan migrants abroad, left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic, now returning home. By Ana Vanessa Herrero, Anthony Faiola and Mariana Zuñiga. Full Text-> The Washington Post

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