Venezuelan Regime Plans Rival Concert to Coincide With Richard Branson’s
Maduro government says it will also hand out food to poor people in neighboring Colombia, as humanitarian aid for Venezuela piles up at the border
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who faces growing pressure to step down and a public-relations problem on the border with Colombia, plans to organize a rival musical performance this week in response to a Live Aid-style concert staged by billionaire Richard Branson.
In addition, officials said Monday that Mr. Maduro’s government plans to hand out 20,000 boxes of subsidized food to poor people in Cúcuta, the Colombian border city that U.S. officials and Mr. Maduro’s opponents are using as a launchpad...