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"Either we are going to quarantine or the pandemic could tragically bring down our country Venezuela, as is happening today in Europe," Nicolás Maduro announced to the country on television this Sunday. In principle, the "social quarantine" affects Caracas, several central states and the Zulia and Táchira borders, as a first step to send the entire population home, something that will happen in the coming days.

"You should not leave the house except to cover essential needs and for that, all the support of the peace quadrants will be deployed, to make this circumstance that we are going to live less difficult, which will be complicated," emphasized the Bolivarian chief, Who made it clear that this is not a group vacation.

In this way, Maduro is ahead of the rest of his neighbors in the region, by taking the most drastic measures to fight the coronavirus, "imported from different parts of the world." From the first day, the medical, nursing, NGO, international organizations and the democratic Parliament have warned of the emergency situation suffered by the country's public hospitals, with deteriorated facilities, no supplies and no water service in 30% of cases. .

The measure will be implemented starting at 5 in the morning and will have as guarantors of its compliance the communal committees, militiamen and other Bolivarian structures of social control. In this way work and school activities cease.

All those who participate in the food distribution chain, health services, security services, police, military, and transportation are excluded from quarantine, "with the absolute obligation of demanding the protection of the mask", explained the "president people "who previously encouraged families and community councils to make their own face masks. Some, taking the president's orders to the letter, designed their masks with lettuce leaves.

The quarantine is adopted after 48 hours the generals of Chavismo led military exercises in the 46 "sentinel" hospitals and carried out simulated access closures to the big cities .

Maduro called "to the national union, to leave the miseries and baseness and unite in a single power of prayer. A pandemic had to come to strike the world conscience. It is the message of the pandemic, to stop consumerism, the banal and the inconsequential, "pontificated the head of the revolution, after recognizing 17 cases of coronavirus, two of them arrived from the border.

The head of the revolution took the opportunity to denounce that Colombia was hiding a very serious outbreak of coronavirus on the border. President Iván Duque came forward by closing all border crossings on Saturday, after learning of the first two cases in Venezuela, arrived on an Iberia flight from Madrid. An express negotiation between the ambassador of the interim presidency of Juan Guaidó in Colombia and the coffee government enabled a humanitarian corridor, after several thousand people were trapped in nobody's territory.

"I ask Venezuelans to protect people over 70 in a very special way ," stressed the "son of Chávez," knowing that they are one of the groups most affected by the gigantic social and economic crisis that is engulfing Venezuela. since coming to power seven years ago. Retiree pensions today do not reach three dollars a month.

Since the start of the global pandemic, Chavismo has opted for its own line of argument, which began by accusing the United States of creating a "biological warfare weapon" to attack China and the peoples of the world. During this crisis, the usual conspiracy of the revolution has been joined by a propaganda operation in favor of the Asian giant and the harassment against doctors and journalists who doubted the official versions.

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