3 days ago - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, once diametrically opposed to Venezuela´s government, said he had offered aid Wednesday night on a post on X. 'We send you all our solidarity and our prayers.

2 days ago - The European Commission is deploying ... casualties on 24 June. So far, 8 Member States - Czechia, Spain, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Portugal and the Netherlands - are sending assistance through the EU civil protection ...

1 day ago - Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) at STEP.state.gov to receive safety and security updates from the U.S. Embassy, review the Department’s Travel Advisory for Venezuela, and follow @TravelGov and @USEmbassyVE on social media and WhatsApp “U.S. Department of State – Security Updates for U.S. Citizens” for the latest information. When donating, cash is best: Enables rapid, flexible, and effective response. Verify before donating: Use trusted resources to confirm legitimacy. Material aid: Only send if requested and all logistics are arranged.

1 day ago - ... The World Food Programme — the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the largest humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives in emergency situations and channeling food assistance, according to its website — has had ...

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4 hours ago - They include: United States: The State Department has earmarked $150 million for relief efforts that will go to nonprofits and the United Nations. Search-and-rescue teams from Virginia, Los Angeles and Miami-Dade County have also arrived in ...

3 days ago - Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Canada and Qatar promised to send aid. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said: “France stands ready, alongside its European partners, to provide assistance to the affected populations …

3 days ago - In the coastal state of Falcon, Governor Víctor Clark said 32 people had been hospitalized and more than four hours after the earthquake there were still 15 people trapped. President Donald Trump said the United States was preparing to help ...

With communications disrupted and many families separated, Red Cross Societies in Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Argentina — countries home to large Venezuelan communities — have already activated their restoring family ...

Samaritan’s Purse is responding in Jesus’ Name after Venezuela was hit by devastating earthquakes. Today the ministry’s 767 cargo plane airlifted life-saving supplies, including an Emergency Field Hospital, to the Latin American nation. Our disaster response specialists are on the ground in Venezuela, with dozens more to follow in the coming days. June 27: Our 767 took off from North Carolina with nearly 100,000 pounds of relief headed for Venezuela. Back-to-back earthquakes rocked Venezuela within a minute of each other on June 24. Both tremors measured over 7.0 in magnitude; the second quake reached 7.5, making it the strongest to hit the country in over a century. Aftershocks continue, complicating search-and-rescue and relief efforts. More than 1,400 people are confirmed dead and thousands more are injured or missing. Hospitals in the hardest hit areas were strained before the quake, and now many are damaged and overwhelmed with people in desperate need of care.

2 days ago - The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) has launched relief operations while its national branch, the Venezuelan Red Cross, "is on the ground conducting search and rescue, reaching the injured, and assessing the growing needs of those ...

2 days ago - She also urged businesses to make heavy construction equipment available for rescue operations and said search-and-rescue teams certified by the United Nations were on their way to assist. She said rescue crews were coming from several countries as she thanked world leaders, including Trump. Emergency crews have been searching through rubble by hand in some areas, with heavy equipment still arriving in the hardest-hit zones. Officials warned it could take days to assess the full scale of casualties and damage, particularly in areas still difficult to access. Early assessments suggest key infrastructure has remained largely intact. Near the epicenter, workers were restarting Venezuela’s Morón Petrochemical Complex, the country’s second largest in operation, after it was shut down as a precaution following the quakes, according to a local fire official. The earthquakes left much of Venezuela’s oil and gas infrastructure largely intact, including the 146,000-barrel-per-day El Palito refin

1 day ago - Venezuela's government said families reported at least 68,900 people missing, three days after the one-two punch of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes devastated the South American nation. WATCH: Crews race to find survivors in mountains of rubble after Venezuela earthquakes · Venezuelans looking for loved ones and neighbors used shovels, heavy equipment, ropes and bare hands atop mounds of toppled concrete throughout La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit states. They were joined by a growing number of international rescue teams who began to climb through the rubble, offering a small glint of hope to anguished families. Tensions peaked over what many Venezuelans viewed as an inadequate response by the government, whose soldiers, firefighters, police and military cadets were evidently underprepared to respond to the scope of the tragedy. Many felt every minute ticking away as they ran out of time to rescue people alive.

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1 day ago - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is rapidly deploying Urban Search and Rescue teams -- highly specialized emergency response units -- through the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group, a ...

1 day ago - UK-based charity Serve On has been attempting to travel to Caracas since last week after the city was devastated by back-to-back high magnitude earthquakes on Wednesday evening.

8 hours ago - Doctors Without Borders is on the ground assessing needs in La Guaira, one of the cities most affected by the earthquakes. Alimenta la Solidaridad is providing emergency support to victims and first responders in Venezuela, including food, water, ...

The list of countries pledging to send humanitarian aid includes the United States, Brazil, El Salvador, Mexico, Spain, Germany, France and many others. But because of the serious damage to airports, hospitals and other essential infrastructure, ...