U.S. Considering Humanitarian Corridor for Venezuela Aid, Envoy Says
- Abrams says corridor would require Maduro regime’s assistance
- U.S. still determining scope of Venezuelan assets abroad
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The Trump administration is ready to offer more humanitarian aid to Venezuela and is weighing the possibility of a corridor to help people hit by the country’s turmoil, the State Department’s envoy for the crisis said.
“We’re making a big and growing humanitarian effort,” Elliott Abrams, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo’s special representative for Venezuela, told reporters in Washington on Wednesday. “The humanitarian corridor is something we are looking at, but of course it requires the cooperation of the regime. I don’t know how practical that is -- it hasn’t been possible to date.”