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  • An American aid convoy, engulfed in flames,

  • at a border crossing between Colombia and Venezuela:

  • The scene has become a critical flashpoint

  • in the political and economic crisis gripping the country.

  • Senior U.S. officials immediately

  • seized on the incident, blaming President Maduro

  • and his supporters for intentionally

  • torching the convoy.

  • But an investigation by The Times

  • calls this conclusion into serious question

  • and shows that U.S. officials raced to judgment

  • without the full facts.

  • How did we get here?

  • The Venezuelan crisis came to a head in early 2019,

  • when opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself

  • president in a bid to unseat Nicolás Maduro, whose

  • authoritarian rule and economic mismanagement

  • resulted in searing poverty.

  • Backed by the U.S.,

  • Guaidó mobilized his followers

  • to bring American aid into Venezuela.

  • But Maduro blocked border crossings and denied entry.

  • On Feb. 23,

  • four aid trucks arrived at a bridge on the Colombian side

  • of the border.

  • Guaidó supporters cleared a path

  • and drove the trucks toward Venezuela.

  • Security forces repelled them, firing tear gas and rubber bullets,

  • and the aid trucks got stuck on the bridge.

  • The Colombian government released

  • this annotated footage of the standoff.

  • They circle the Venezuelan police near the trucks

  • before the fire breaks out.

  • The implication appears to be that the Maduro regime caused

  • the fire.

  • But note the time stamp in the footage they circulated:

  • It suddenly jumps ahead by 13 minutes and misses

  • the critical moments leading up to the fire.

  • We obtained previously unseen TV footage

  • that fills this gap and tells a more complicated story.

  • So let’s back up the TV footage

  • and see what happened.

  • A small group of protesters starts throwing

  • rocks and Molotov cocktails.

  • Well focus on this one protester.

  • Here we see him throwing two Molotovs toward police.

  • Let’s look at the scene again.

  • Four trucks are stranded on the bridge.

  • The protester approaches from here, behind the third truck.

  • He launches one Molotov.

  • But the second one separates and the burning rag

  • veers off toward the trucksnot the police.

  • Let’s fast forward a little, and well synchronize

  • the security footage.

  • We can see that a fire has taken

  • hold on one of the trucks.

  • This is just 30 seconds after the burning rag

  • landed in this area.

  • This sequence of events shows the fire was most likely

  • started by an errant Molotov, not by Maduro security

  • forces.

  • In minutes, the cargo is ablaze.

  • the cargo is ablaze that as this journalist

  • As this journalist turns the corner to get a better angle,

  • she takes the same route as the protester

  • who threw the Molotov and points her camera

  • in the direction the rag went, where a fire is now blazing.

  • This was the start of the fire that

  • spread rapidly and consumed three trucks.

  • Both police and protesters scrambled to contain the scene.

  • As the chaos was unfolding,

  • the incident quickly escalated into a political firestorm.

  • A Venezuelan journalist tweeted this report,

  • blaming Maduro.

  • Twelve minutes later, Senator Marco Rubio

  • retweeted the unsubstantiated claim.

  • National security adviser John Bolton weighed in soon after.

  • And then U.S.A.I.D. administrator Mark Green

  • claimed that Maduro had ordered the burning.

  • Secretary of State Pompeo tweeted out the same visuals

  • that evening.

  • None of the U.S. officials offered

  • any definitive evidence supporting their claim.

  • They doubled down on Sunday talk shows:

  • There’s a sick tyrant, Maduro, who’s

  • denying food to starving Venezuelans and medicine

  • to sick Venezuelans; burning trucks with

  • this is the worst of the worst of a tyrant.”

  • And officials continue to cite the burning

  • trucks at the U.N.

  • Security Council.

  • Armed gangs, thugs and criminals

  • released from prisons were mobilized

  • to control the border.

  • Their actions led to the burning

  • of humanitarian assistance rather than its protection.”

  • It’s true that Maduro has a horrific human rights record

  • and that he deploys armed gangs called colectivos

  • to terrorize the opposition.

  • But in this specific incident, our analysis

  • shows U.S. officials used unverified claims to spin

  • their side of the story.

  • Officials we contacted either did not comment

  • or failed to provide evidence supporting their claims.

  • What happened on the bridge is a classic example

  • of how misinformation spreads online.

  • A rumor or unproven claim is made.

  • It’s amplified by influential people.

  • Mainstream media brings it to the masses.

  • Venezuelan national guardsmen under orders from President

  • Nicolás Maduro attacked two aid trucks yesterday,

  • lighting them on fire.”

  • And in this case, there were real-life consequences.

  • Effective today, the United States

  • will impose additional sanctions on regime officials.”

  • And those new sanctions were triggered in part

  • by the burning of aid trucks on the bridge.

An American aid convoy, engulfed in flames,

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