VEE in 1966 in Mexico came with EEEV and western EEWV into Tampaulipas, central Veracruz through Hidaldo and into San Luis Potosí (SLP) to be stopped by mountains to the west. Considering the limited coastal distribution, viruses were carried in by culex mosquitoes in an Atlantic hurricane. Nonetheless, half the cotton rats Sigmodon hispidus were infected with these viruses, thus functioning after as a selvatic host.
See Rev Invest Salud Pub (Mex) 26, 1966 and 29, 1969.

Coming from Venezuela or neighboring islands, a hurricane might go
anywhere from SW to about NE sometimes crossing Florida. The pattern of
virus dispersion here is obviously by hurricane rather than endemic, and
the SLP epidemic is an EXCELLENT distributional example.