Standoff escalates over Venezuela aid
CUCUTA, Colombia - Venezuelan opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido risked arrest to cross the border into Colombia on Friday to appear at a massive benefit concert and increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to accept humanitarian aid.
Guaido appeared as a Live Aid-style concert - which attracted more than 200,000 people - was wrapping up. Later he spoke at a news conference at a border bridge with Colombian President Ivan Duque, Chilean President Sebastian Pinera and Paraguayan President Mario Abdo.
The heads of state joined diplomats, musicians and others who streamed into this border city, site of the U.S.-backed effort to undermine Maduro by forcing the entry of massive supplies of
