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- One month after the June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela, search efforts continue for victims trapped in collapsed structures. Javier, who lost nine relatives in the Misión Vivienda towers, is leading civilian recovery efforts, protesting demolition plans that threaten to destroy remains.
- The death toll from the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes has surpassed 5,300, according to government figures. More than 17,000 people lost their homes, and interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez recently handed over the first 240 replacement apartments.
- Operating from a self-made "logistics center," Javier, 36, organizes manual recovery teams to dig tunnels up to 10 meters deep. Alongside volunteers like Juan Carlos Marcano, 40, he argues that heavy machinery will destroy evidence and prevent victim identification.
- In the state of Yaracuy, firefighter María Andrade, 43, has worked 15 straight days without relief. Volunteers face constant demolition threats, with some ruins bearing messages reading "Do not demolish" to protect potential remains.
- Following the U.S. military intervention of January 3, the disaster unfolds amid Venezuela's ongoing political and institutional earthquake. Authorities must manage the catastrophe under Washington's oversight, creating tension with local recovery groups.
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More than 5,200 people have died in the double earthquake on June 24 in Venezuela, and about 172,000 were injured, according to the latest government reports. Thousands of survivors are now facing a health crisis, and 17,800 people have been left homeless.
The pain for lost lives and material devastation today mark thousands of its citizens; in the face of the magnitude of the tragedy, the rapid and effective reconstruction of the affected areas is an urgent and urgent task.
One month after the earthquakes in Venezuela: ‘People aren’t going to leave their dead there’
With the death toll topping 5,300 and no official count of the missing, residents have taken the search for victims into their own hands as government machinery threatens to clear the ruins before many families have recovered their loved ones
I traveled to Venezuela to find out if the ouster of the president had changed the country. I found out when I witnessed the disaster, writes Yle's Spain correspondent Maija Salmi.
The authorities have so far recognized nearly 5,400 people who have died, but family members continue to demand that bodies continue to be searched for in the rubble.
The disaster caused by the devastating earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 that struck Venezuela on June 24 is far from over. After a month of earthquake that has left some 5,398 dead and 16,740 injured, Venezuelans continue to search for their relatives. But not only among the rubble of the buildings that collapsed in La Guaira, but also in the hospitals to which they were transferred alive and in the morgues to where they took the bodies of …
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