La Guaira 2026: A Tragedy Foretold
In 2010, Paula Vásquez-Lezama told in a book how Chávez appropriated the 1999 disaster, as if she would have describing the 2026 earthquakes
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Monetary donations are the most effective and immediate way to help. Supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but physical supply shipments may face logistics bottlenecks.
The priority is to rescue survivors while the entirety of the damage is assessed
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Specialized squads from several countries arrived two days after the earthquakes to do what the State is unable or unwilling to do
Reconstruction will test the limits of State capacity. It will also demand democratic governance and unprecedented international cooperation
Supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but monetary transfers are the fastest way to deliver relief
The absence of a useful government in a country depleted of capabilities left the population to its own devices
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