Newly-released footage indicates that opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro set on fire a purported US aid convoy at the border with Colombia two weeks ago, contradicting claims by the US and the opposition that the government was behind the incident.

Footage released by The New York Times on Monday, shows that a Molotov cocktail thrown by an anti-government protester was the most likely trigger for the blaze that engulfed a truck said to be laden with US humanitarian aid two weeks ago.

The truck was filmed in flames on February 23 on the Francisco de Paula Santander Bridge spanning the Venezuela-Colombia border.

Shortly after the incident, Washington and the US-backed opposition accused the government of Maduro of ordering security forces to burn down “food & medicine” as millions of peoplecannot turn away from it.”

The blackout affected 23 of the country’s 24 states on Thursday after an attack on the Guri Dam, a large hydroelectric facility in east Venezuela, according to the minister of electrical power, Luis Motta Domínguez.

View of the Venezuelan capital Caracas during a partial power outage on March 9, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

In an interview with press TV, Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, agreed with Maduro’s stance on the outage, saying that the president would not be saying this if it wasn't the reason.

He argued that he “world has every reason to believe that the United States would attack any of Venezuela’s infrastructure.”

Andre Vltchek, philosopher, author and filmmaker also spoke to Press TV about the blackout, describing it as an “act of sabotage