Repression Turns to Rage After Quakes in Venezuela
Venezuelans are publicly expressing their anger over their government’s disaster response, despite the risk of imprisonment.
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Venezuelans are publicly expressing their anger over their government’s disaster response, despite the risk of imprisonment.
We look at U.S. relief efforts in Haiti in 2010 and in Venezuela now.
Thousands of volunteers are joined by overseas teams in the hope of finding more survivors in the rubble When twin earthquakes tore through Venezuela’s northern coast last week, Israel Rivas was at home hundreds of miles away in the industrial city of San Félix. As the scale of the catastrophe became clear, the 24-year-old knew he had to react. A mechanic and budding photographer, Rivas gathered the money he had been saving to buy a new camera lens and jumped on a bus to make the 12-hour journey
Venezuelan security guard pulled alive from building basement 8 days after twin quakes AP News Venezuela quake survivor pulled out alive after eight days on BBC Fuel Shortages Stall Venezuela Rescue Efforts as Cranes Sit Idle Bloomberg As Venezuelan morgues fill and the death toll slowly rises, questions remain about how many are truly gone CNN An Aerial View of Disaster at a Venezuela Housing Project The New York Times
Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not survive A 43-year-old security guard who survived last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela thanks to a pocket of air in his workstation cabin has been pulled from the collapsed basement of a shopping centre amid huge cheers from international rescue teams. Hernán Alberto Gil Flores had been trapped for eight days under the rubble of the Galerías Playa Grande in the hard-hit coast
Venezuelan man pulled alive from collapsed basement eight days after earthquakes The Guardian Survivor buried by Venezuela quakes eight days ago is cheering rescuers on BBC Venezuelan security guard pulled alive from building basement 8 days after twin quakes ABC7 Los Angeles As Venezuelan morgues fill and the death toll slowly rises, questions remain about how many are truly gone CNN Survivor found 8 days after devastating Venezuela earthquakes USA Today
Survivor buried by Venezuela quakes eight days ago is cheering rescuers on BBC Rescuers work to pull survivor from rubble 8 days after devastating Venezuela earthquakes CNN Venezuela earthquakes latest: Nearly 50,000 unaccounted for as death toll climbs Yahoo MEDIA ALERT: WCK Scales Earthquake Response Across Venezuela as Death Toll and Displacement Rise World Central Kitchen Venezuelans face grim and daunting task of recovering bodies from devastated areas CBC
Untold casualties and humanitarian needs: What to know a week from Venezuela's quakes NPR ‘Tears won’t move a single stone’: Anger grows as Venezuelans rescue their own and fear true death toll is much higher CNN Spotless uniforms, stalled cranes: Inside Venezuela’s faltering quake rescue effort AP News Space Lasers Show How Venezuela’s Earthquakes Reshaped the Earth’s Crust WIRED Venezuelan Private Sector Fills State Void in Earthquake Relief Bloomberg.com
Anger at authorities and government grows as local people, volunteers and rescue teams continue search for survivors Four Venezuelan police officers have been arrested and are facing dismissal after being accused of looting cash from the rubble of a building that collapsed during last week’s devastating twin earthquakes. News of the incident came as local people and national and international rescue teams continue to search for survivors in the aftermath of the back-to-back quakes, which have k
BBC correspondent Will Grant reports from Caraballeda, La Guaira, where locals are still desperately searching for family members in the rubble.
In today’s newsletter: A country already in crisis since the removal of its leader earlier this year by the US, now has to find a way to rebuild with little state presence in evidence The shaking seemed to come from nowhere. In a moment captured by fishers off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, two earthquakes struck seconds apart. Plumes of dust appear where buildings once stood in the recording as the camera rises and falls with the swell. The men rapidly head for the shore in search of their famili
At least 1,700 people have died and tens of thousands are feared missing after the twin quakes.
Preliminary analysis of satellite data suggests magnitude of natural disaster could dwarf official estimates More than 58,000 buildings may have been damaged and destroyed by the twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela last week, according to a preliminary analysis of satellite data that suggests the scale of the destruction could dwarf official estimates. Last Wednesday’s back-to-back quakes – which measured magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 – killed at least 1,943 people, injured more than 10,571, and left t
Venezuela’s natural disaster was unavoidable, but the devastation it has left in its wake was not.
More than 100 people removed on ICE flight were being held in hotel in La Guaira when earthquakes struck More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, according to survivors. A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Venezuela hours before Wednesday’s earthquakes. Onboard were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE
Five days after Venezuela's earthquakes, some communities still await help Reuters Venezuela Is Desperately Searching for 50,000 Missing After Earthquakes WSJ Aftershock frays nerves as many Venezuelans left to fend for themselves BBC Efforts to Rescue Venezuela Quake Victims Grow More Desperate The New York Times How Richmond's Venezuelan community mobilized after the earthquakes Axios
Caracas and port city of La Guaira affected by 4.6 magnitude shock as loss of life passes 1,450 people A strong aftershock has rattled northern Venezuela, sending terrified residents racing on to the streets five days after the twin earthquakes that killed at least 1,450 people, left tens of thousands missing and triggered a growing humanitarian emergency. The aftershock early on Monday – which the United States Geological Survey measured at a magnitude of 4.6 – shook the capital, Caracas, and t
Lucas Trejo of Argentina loses wife and two children while teammate’s partner dies saving their daughter ‘Critical hours’ in Venezuela earthquake rescue operation – latest updates Family members of two professional footballers are among those killed by the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela in a catastrophe that has claimed at least 1,450 lives. Among the reported victims are the wife and two children of Lucas Trejo, an Argentinian footballer signed to Club Sport Marítimo of La Guaira. He
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At least 1,450 are known to have died but the number is expected to rise The president of Venezuela’s National Assembly has warned time is running out to rescue survivors trapped under the rubble. The death toll from the earthquakes has risen to at least 1,450 people, with 3,150 injured and 12,721 others displaced, Jorge Rodríguez said yesterday in a televised address. Continue reading...
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