US to send hospital ship to help Venezuela refugees

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US will send hospital ship to Colombia to help Venezuelan refugees
The Cooperator | August 18, 2018

Translated from Spanish

Caracas.- The Secretary of Defense of the United States, Jim Mattis, said on Friday that he would send a US Navy hospital ship to the Colombian coast to help treat the Venezuelan refugees who have overwhelmed the Colombian medical system, the first incursion American military in the crisis of Venezuela.

"It is absolutely a humanitarian mission. We will not send soldiers, we will send doctors", Mattis told reporters of his plans to send the gleaming white freighter with a Red Cross painted on its side to help treat refugees in Colombia and probably in other Latin American nations.



He did not give a timetable for when the ship, probably the ship known as the Comfort, would leave from its port of origin, probably Norfolk, Virginia, reported Miami Herald.

The decision to deploy American medical troops in the worst migration crisis in the history of South America is a significant departure from Trump's administration policy.

Defense officials have come out of the response to civil and international humanitarian aid organizations to deny Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro the possibility of launching it as a US military intervention in the region.

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