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The US Agency for International Development (USAID) allocates $ 6 million to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuelans fleeing to Colombia, bringing to $ 56 million the total amount of aid to Venezuelan refugees in Latin America.
The agency today announced in a statement an announcement made yesterday by its managing director, Mark Green, during a visit to the border town of Cucuta, where he met Venezuelans and visited food and vaccine distribution centers [19659002] The new consignment will provide food badistance to Venezuelan refugees in Colombia and, in addition, will provide more resources to health centers so that they can offer primary care and first aid, as well as psychological counseling and nutritional supplements, according to the note.
United States It allocated $ 56 million for humanitarian badistance to Venezuelan displaced persons in Latin America, of whom 32 million went to Colombia.
In another statement, USAID noted that Green has been meeting today in Bogota with the outgoing president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos .
Both spoke of the "growing crisis" in Venezuela, and Green took the opportunity to acknowledge Colombia's "leadership" and thanked Santos that his country had welcomed the refugees. They fled the "brutality" of the "regime" of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
Every day, about 35,000 Venezuelans cross the border with Colombia, some in search of medicines and food and others to the looking for a better future.
Venezuela has lost more than 40% of its gross domestic product (GDP) over the last four years and is recording high inflation, which is expected to reach 13,000% this year, according to data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). EFE
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