NEW DELHI, July 4 -- She is in her 60s, and in all those years she said, she had never seen medical attention like this in Caracas. At the International La Rinconada Racetrack, where India has set up a field hospital staffed by 41 military doctors, her testimonial was among the videos shared this week by India's Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal as evidence of what Operation Amistad has become: the most active medical facility for earthquake survivors in the Venezuelan capital.

On Friday, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil arrived at the hospital to deliver a formal expression of gratitude. Standing beside India's Ambassador P.K. Ashok Babu, Gil did not reach for diplomatic language. "We have no words to thank y...