The US Air Force C-17 cargo planes left Homestead Air Reserve Base in Miami, Florida, and landed in Cucuta, Colombia, 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 says can feed about 3,500 children.
The first wave of aid arrived February 8 and included locally purchased food kits, hygiene kits, medical supplies, ready-to-use supplementary foods and high-energy biscuits, USAID said.
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The latest aid delivery comes one week after Venezuela’s self-declared interim President Juan Guaido and Venezuela’s National Assembly requested humanitarian assistance. The Venezuelan government, led by embattled President Nicolas Maduro, last week blocked the bridge to Cucuta from Colombia, according to Colombian officials and a CNN photojournalist at the scene, effectively cutting off the humanitarian aid called for by Venezuela’s opposition via that route.
Source: US aid lands in Colombia as part of effort to deliver supplies to Venezuela
