The Washington administration intends to deliver aid and search-and-rescue teams to Venezuela via military air transport, and the Pentagon will be responsible for this.
elchi reports that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this to journalists.
“I have already spoken with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The Department of Defense will have to play a major role in ensuring logistics. It has the means to ensure landing in difficult conditions,” he said following his meeting with counterparts from the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain. Referring to the deployment of search-and-rescue teams to Venezuela, the Secretary of State added: “We will rely on the Department of Defense to send forces and assets there.”
“The airport in Caracas has been severely damaged. There is a crack in one of the runways, but the Department of Defense can carry out landings in such conditions. We will need this,” he added. According to Rubio, the “entire US government” will participate in coordinating the provision of aid to Venezuela.
The Secretary of State noted that he had a telephone conversation with the authorized President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, “early this morning.” “We are already sending search-and-rescue brigades from Fairfax, Virginia, and Los Angeles. There will be others,” he specified.
The earthquake in Venezuela occurred on the evening of June 24. Two tremors with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 were recorded with an interval of approximately 40 seconds. Their epicenters were located in Yaracuy state, 10 km apart. About 30 aftershocks were recorded after the earthquake. According to Rodriguez, 164 people died and 971 were injured. Dozens of buildings collapsed. The Venezuelan authorities have declared a state of emergency in the country. The government has declared the coastal state of La Guaira a disaster zone.
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