Photos shared by Venezuelans on the ground show buildings destroyed throughout La Guaira, one of the areas hardest hit by the earthquake. A powerful earthquake has devastated parts of Venezuela, reducing buildings to rubble, knocking out communications, and leaving families desperately searching for missing loved ones. In the days following the disaster, I contacted numerous Venezuelans through missing-person posts and databases created to help families locate relatives. Several of those individuals responded, sharing firsthand accounts of their experiences during and after the disaster. Their eyewitness testimonies, originally sent to me in Spanish and translated into English via Google Translate, paint a picture not only of a devastating natural disaster but of a country whose emergency response systems had already been hollowed out long before the…
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