US Announces $20 Million in Aid to Venezuelans

US Announces $20 Million in Aid to Venezuelans
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (C) speaks during a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States in Washington, on Jan. 24, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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The U.S. government is prepared to spend $20 million in humanitarian aid for the people of Venezuela, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Jan. 24.

The State Department said in a statement dated January 24 it is ready to provide emergency aid as Venezuelans “struggle to cope with severe food and medicine shortages, and the other dire impacts of their country’s political and economic crisis caused by the illegitimate Maduro regime.”
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