A shipment with more than 65 tons of medical supplies from the U.S. arrives in Venezuela.

Caracas.- The U.S. chargé d'affaires in Venezuela, Laura Dogu, reported this Saturday on the arrival of more than 65 tons of medical supplies to the South American country, the second shipment from the United States since the rapprochement between both nations after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro last January. "I supervised the second delivery of more than 65,000 kilograms of medical supplies for the Venezuelan people," the diplomat reported on X, without specifying what type of supplies arrived in the country. He detailed that this shipment brought the total of medical supplies that the United States has delivered to Venezuela to 71 tons, after last week he reported the arrival of more than six tons of medicines "to support the recovery of the Venezuelan people".

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These shipments were delivered amid close contacts between the government in charge of Delcy Rodríguez and the United States, aimed primarily at restoring diplomatic relations, which had been broken since 2019, and revitalizing the South American country's oil industry.

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Rodríguez has received visits in Caracas from high-ranking US officials, including the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, with whom he announced a long-term energy agreement; and the head of the US Southern Command, Francis Donovan, with whom he agreed to combat drug trafficking and terrorism in the region. On January 27th, the acting president announced the unfreezing of Venezuelan assets in the United States as a result of dialogues with the government of the American president, Donald Trump, and reported on the purchase, in the North American country, of equipment for hospitals with these released resources. The president, who assumed the Executive after Maduro's capture during the U.S. military attack in Caracas, said that the money would also be used to purchase equipment for the electrical system and for the gas industry in Venezuela.