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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green met with the Dutch Ambassador to the United States, Henne Schuwer, to discuss how the United States and The Netherlands can alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Administrator Green and Ambassador Schuwer committed to continue working together to help the Venezuelan people. The two exchanged ideas on how best to collaborate on pre-propositioning civilian humanitarian assistance on the island of Curaçao, a component country of the Kingdom of The Netherlands, to address severe shortages of food and medicine in Venezuela.
This week, the United States airlifted additional humanitarian assistance to Colombia to provide relief to tens of thousands of Venezuelans who are suffering from severe shortages of food and medicine caused by the mismanagement of the illegitimate Maduro regime.
Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs, Eddy Acevedo will lead a USAID delegation, which includes Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Latin America and Caribbean Bernardo Rico, to Miami, Florida. They will join U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, and his delegation, on a U.S. military flight to Cúcuta, Colombia to accompany the delivery of additional humanitarian aid for the people of Venezuela.
So, we've been providing assistance to Venezuelan migrants for the last couple of years. Nearly 4 million Venezuelans have fled Maduro, fled the regime, fled the suffering. So, in that sense, the scale is almost unprecedented. This is the largest mass-migration event in Latin American history, forever. It's unprecedented in that sense.
The other part to it that makes it so different is it's man-made and regime-driven. This is not an earthquake. This is not a hurricane. This is not a tornado or a flood. This is one man and one regime imposing dictatorial rule, imposing suffering, and pain, on people. It's entirely man-made. It doesn't have to be. So, again, we're hopeful that the day is coming when it will all change, and we'll get new leadership, and a better future.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Mark Green met with Curaçao Prime Minister Eugene Rhuggenaath on February 18, 2019, outside of the island's capital of Willemstad. Administrator Green thanked the Prime Minister for his support in helping alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, including through Curaçao's recognition of Interim President Juan Guaidó as the rightful leader of Venezuela. Administrator Green and the Prime Minister jointly lamented the vast humanitarian needs in Venezuela, and committed to working together to help the suffering people who are facing shortages of food and medicine by pursuing the agreements necessary to allow the U.S. Government to pre-position civilian humanitarian assistance for Venezuela in private warehouses in Curaçao.
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