Most of the time, Alexander Delgado teaches physical education at a school in the central Venezuelan state of Aragua.
Tag: Venezuela
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 death toll from Wednesday’s twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 as foreign rescue teams poured into coastal La Guaira, the hardest-hit state.
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.
Two powerful earthquakes that struck the northern coast of Venezuela and capital Caracas on Wednesday claimed at least 188 lives, a toll that could increase as rescue teams comb the debris of collapsed buildings.