Simón Bolívar Task Force arrived after humanitarian work in Syria

On the afternoon of this Monday, February 20, the brigade members of the Simón Bolívar Humanitarian Task Group who carried out search and rescue tasks for survivors in Syria, shaken by two devastating earthquakes on Monday, February 6, with an epicenter in the neighboring Türkiye, reviewed in a bulletin the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.

“How proud to see the group of men and women who left their homes, families and the country to go to Syria return successfully, under a spirit of solidarity, multiplying the values ​​of dedication, courage and commitment, planted in our people,” he said. the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Yván Gil, on his Twitter account, regarding the return of the Venezuelan lifeguards.

At the Simón Bolívar International Airport, which serves Caracas from the state of La Guaira, the Bolivarian Government was welcomed by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Tatiana Pugh Moreno, and the Venezuelan ambassador to Damascus , José Gregorio Biomorgi, together with Wael Deirki, Plenipotentiary Minister of the Syrian Embassy in Venezuela, reviewed the Foreign Ministry.

The brigade of experts in rescue and search for victims in disaster situations arrived in Damascus at dawn on February 9 and were deployed in the city of Latakia, one of those affected by the powerful 7.8 earthquake and the subsequent aftershock, nine hours later, 7.5 degrees, which collapsed hundreds of buildings, with thousands of deaths and injuries, and material damage.

This Humanitarian Task Force team was made up of fire brigades and a canine rescue brigade. Venezuela also sent Syria, both nations subjected to criminal unilateral coercive measures by Western imperialism, a shipment of more than 15 tons of medicines and food.