US aid lands in Colombia to deliver supplies to Venezuela

Bogota: A second wave of US aid landed at the Colombian-Venezuelan border in an effort to deliver supplies to Caracas amid the country’s ongoing humanitarian crisis. The US Air Force C-17 cargo planes left Homestead Air Reserve Base in Miami and landed in Cucuta, Colombia, on Saturday, according to a statement from the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The relief supplies delivered included hygiene kits that can help about 25,000 people and nutrition products that USAID said, can feed about 3,500 children, reports CNN.

The first wave of aid arrived on February 8 and included locally purchased food kits, hygiene kits, medical supplies, ready-to-use supplementary foods and high-energy biscuits, USAID said. Venezuela’s self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido, urged the hundreds of thousands of registered volunteers Saturday to help get aid into the country. Saturday’s aid delivery comes a week after Guaido and Venezuela’s National Assembly requested humanitarian assistance, said CNN. (IANS)

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