🔺More than 20,000 dead and injured in Venezuela earthquake; the United States increased aid

▪The number of deaths from two powerful earthquakes on Wednesday, June 24, corresponding to 3 Tir, in this country has reached 4,118, and 16,740 others have also been injured.

▪Thousands of people are still reported missing, and United Nations officials have estimated direct damage to homes and infrastructure at about $37 billion.

▪At the same time as the humanitarian crisis has expanded, the United States has become one of the main actors in relief operations. Associated Press reported that 300 relief personnel dispatched from the United States are active in Venezuela, and that, daily, about two dozen C-17 military transport aircraft carrying aid are entering the country.