US sends medicine and supplies to Venezuela in sign of renewed cooperation

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Source: Scripps News/AP

Posted 2:17 PM, Feb 14, 2026


A shipment from the United States of medicine and medical supplies arrived in Venezuela on Friday, reflecting a new spirit of cooperation between the two countries following the stunning capture last month of then-President Nicolás Maduro.

Laura Dogu, the U.S. top diplomat in the South American country, and Venezuelan diplomat Félix Plasencia, received the shipment containing 6 metric tons of supply at the airport outside Venezuela's capital, Caracas.

“It’s very important to stabilize the health system here in Venezuela,” Dogu told reporters at the airport in Maiquetía. She added that the shipment was “the first of many donations” that will arrive “in the coming days.”

Venezuela's complex crisis, which began more than a decade ago, led to the collapse of the country's public health care system. Hospitals are so poorly equipped that patients are asked to provide supplies needed for their care, from syringes to surgical screws.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/world/south-america/us-sends-medicine-and-supplies-to-venezuela-in-sign-of-renewed-cooperation

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Probably not enough to even make a dent. If they hadn't dismantled and raided USAID, then this wouldn't have needed to be done.

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1. maduro's people are still in charge

any relief goes to their supporters and themselves

Inflation is out of control... people are starving and afraid to go to the markets

At intersections armed militia are asking people for their phones, if they find any anti-Maduro messages, the people are arrested and taken someplace ( no one knows where ).

I am now supporting a family of 4 refugees from Venezuela who have escaped to Chile. Including a little girl of 8.

I'm afraid the situation in Venezuela will not get any better. All Trump wanted was the oil and to sell it to gulf coast refiners, and put the money in a middle eastern bank account.

[Hugin]

5. Thanks for the reality check.

Articles like this are geared to the audience of one. Propaganda pablum.

[vapor2]

2. WTF????????

While republicans took our health care and food prices soaring and we're sending supplies to where? PLUS the $40 billion to Argentina. HE is robbing the treasury

[Brother Buzz]

3. Used to be, Cuba sent medial help in exchange for oil.

Cuban medical help to Venezuela, initiated around 1999–2000, is a major bilateral exchange where thousands of Cuban healthcare professionals provide services in Venezuelan, primarily in underserved areas, in exchange for oil.


https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/02/09/venezuela-and-cuba-a-socialist-alliance-for-health-for-all/

[EX500rider]

6. Yes, what a great system is was....lol

The New York Times interviewed sixteen Cuban medical professionals in 2019 who had worked for Barrio Adentro prior to the 2018 Venezuelan presidential elections; all sixteen revealed that they were required to participate in voting fraud.[23] Some of the Cubans said that "command centers" for elections were placed near clinics to facilitate "dispatching doctors to pressure residents".[23]
Some tactics reported by the Cubans were unrelated to their profession: they were given counterfeit cards to vote even though they were not eligible voters, they witnessed vote tampering with officials opening ballot boxes and destroyed ballots, and they were told to instruct easily manipulated elderly patients in how to vote.[23]

But they also "described a system of deliberate political manipulation"; their services as medical professionals "were wielded to secure votes for the governing Socialist Party, often through coercion," they told The New York Times.[23] Facing a shortage of supplies and medicine, they were instructed to withhold treatment – even for emergencies – so supplies and treatment could be "doled out closer to the election, part of a national strategy to compel patients to vote for the government".[23]
They reported that life-saving treatment was denied to patients who supported the opposition. As the election neared, they were sent door-to-door, on house visits with a political purpose: "to hand out medicine and enlist voters for Venezuela's Socialist Party".[23] Patients were warned that they could lose their medical care if they did not vote for the Socialist Party, and that, if Maduro lost, ties would be broken with Cuba, and Venezuelans would lose all medical care.
Patients with chronic conditions and those at risk of death if they couldn't get medicine, were a particular focus of these tactics. One said that government officials were posing as doctors to make these house calls before elections; "We, the doctors, were asked to give our extra robes to people. The fake doctors were even giving out medicines, without knowing what they were or how to use them," he said.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Barrio_Adentro

[Hugin]

4. Six metric tons of paper towels aren't going to cut it.

How’s about giving VZ their sovereignty back?