Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Gov­ern­ment-or­gan­ised aid for earth­quake-strick­en Venezuela will be trans­port­ed by the Galleons Pas­sage to the hard­est hit area of La Guaira soon, pri­vate sec­tor sup­plies leave in few days - and en­er­gy gi­ant Shell has com­mit­ted a US $5 mil­lion dis­as­ter re­lief fund to sup­port re­spons­es and res­cue ef­forts in Venezuela.

In­for­ma­tion came from the re­spec­tive av­enues yes­ter­day, as re­lief ef­forts moved apace fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing dou­ble earth­quakes of 7.2 and 7.5 in mag­ni­tude which shat­tered Venezuela last week.