One Hundred Hours of Hope and Government Absence
This is how the disaster area in Vargas looks and smell while relatives struggle to recover the bodies of their dead
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The priority is to rescue survivors while the entirety of the damage is assessed
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In 2010, Paula Vásquez-Lezama told in a book how Chávez appropriated the 1999 disaster, as if she would have describing the 2026 earthquakes
In Los Palos Grandes, like in other parts of Caracas, foreign rescuers and inexperienced volunteers do what they can among the ruins
Here are the voices of some of the individuals who survived, those who search for their loved ones, and the civilians trying to help
Specialized squads from several countries arrived two days after the earthquakes to do what the State is unable or unwilling to do
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