The Vargas Tragedy: the Night the Mountain Fell Into the Sea

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The strip between the mountain range and the coast ceased to be a landscape of beaches and became the scene of one of the worst natural tragedies in the history of Venezuela.

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Experts warn that the risk persists due to poor maintenance works Beatriz Rodríguez On 15, 16 and 17 December 1999, they were fateful for the population of Varguense and will remain engraved in their minds forever, as it is impossible to forget a landslide of that magnitude that took life, according to estimates, from 1,500 to 3,000 people, left 93,000 affected and more than 130,000 were evacuated. Nature claimed its spaces, sowing terror in the…