CARACAS: The Supreme Court in Venezuela has sacked the president of the country's Red Cross, and independent watchdogs on Saturday decried the move as endangering humanitarian work in the impoverished nation.
The Supreme Court a day earlier ordered the 'immediate' removal of Red Cross chief Mario Enrique Villarroel, 75, who had led the charity for 45 years.It accused Villarroel of 'harassment and ill-treatment' of the charity's employees.Also behind his removal was a powerful politician, Diosdado Cabello, the number two leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela of President Nicolas Maduro.
The government and the opposition had agreed that the $3 billion would be earmarked for social or humanitarian funds once freed up.'The UN proposed to receive these $3 billion and this generated an internal conflict... Another supposedly independent entity, the Red Cross, is going to be promoted to receive this money and manage it at an electoral moment and, of course, in coordination with the authorities,' Uzcategui said.'Everything is very suspicious...
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