Venezuela Earthquake: Rescue Teams Race Against Time as Families Wait and Frustration Builds

Rescue workers search through collapsed buildings after the Venezuela earthquake as families wait nearby for news of missing relatives.

Rescue workers are still pulling through rubble. Families are camped outside collapsed buildings, watching and waiting. Temporary shelters are filling up. And in some of the hardest-hit neighborhoods, residents are asking why help didn’t arrive faster. The earthquake that struck parts of Venezuela communities devastated, and the country is now in the difficult middle phase of a disaster  past the initial shock, deep into the search for survivors, and beginning to confront the longer question of what comes next. The Immediate Situation The quake caused widespread structural damage across several…

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