US-backed Venezuelan opposition faces limited options after unsuccessful aid effort
CUCUTA, Colombia - The remains of a pair of scorched and mangled aid-delivery trucks blocked the middle of the Francisco de Paula Santander Bridge between Colombia and Venezuela on Sunday.
Farther south, the Simon Bolivar International Bridge - also linking the two countries - was littered with rocks, tear-gas canisters and shotgun shells.
The detritus strewn on the now-shuttered bridges stood as testament to the near total failure of a U.S.-backed humanitarian aid effort Saturday that was explicitly intended to break the loyalty of the Venezuelan military to the government of embattled President Nicolas Maduro.
Instead, Maduro's heavily
