Dozens of people remain missing after floods and landslides that have killed at least 86 people in Venezuela and Colombia.
Troops in helicopters are shuttling food, water and medical supplies to remote mountain towns that have been affected.
At least 53 Venezuelans have been killed in a week of floods and landslides that have destroyed the homes of some 21,200 people from the Caribbean coast to the southwestern mountains, Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said.
At least 33 people were reported killed in neighbouring Colombia, where some 40,000 were forced from their homes.
The death toll in Venezuela included at least 32 people in the southwestern state of Merida, two more in the western states of Tachira and Zulia, and 19 others last week in northern and central states, the army said.
AP