Most of the time, Alexander Delgado teaches physical education at a school in the central Venezuelan state of Aragua.
Tag: Americas
Relatives of deportees lost in a hotel collapse have questioned why their phones and documents were withheld, complicating efforts to identify them.
Engineers are urging the government to swiftly audit public housing that is still standing.
Residents of Caracas woke up to an aftershock that rocked their houses, while rescue teams continued their fourth day of round-the-clock work in the areas affected by last week’s powerful earthquakes in Venezuela.
Thousands of young people in shorts and t-shirts, some barefoot or in sandals, moved rocks from mountains of debris more than 10 meters high.
Their rescue came after 12 hours of painstaking efforts by teams.
The pope’s remarks came as the EU said it would send nearly $6 million in aid.
Venezuela’s government said on Saturday 1,600 members of foreign rescue teams had arrived to help search for survivors of the devastating twin earthquakes which killed more than 900 people this week as it tightened access to the worst-affected state.
Venezuela’s strongest earthquake in over a century is the biggest challenge to Delcy Rodriguez’s leadership but could also allow the interim president to stamp her authority on a fractured government.
The government said 235 dead had been taken to medical centers but did not give a total casualty estimate.