One Month Later: The Pain and Devastation Left by the Earthquakes in Venezuela
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
One month after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, the death toll exceeds 5,300, and the number of missing persons remains unknown. Dozens of families are still searching through the rubble for their loved ones as criticism of the response from Delcy Rodríguez's government increases. The latest figure, provided on Wednesday by the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, is 5,398 dead and 16,740 injured. Unidentified victims are being buried in several newly opened mass graves at a municipal cemetery in La Guaira state, according to several witnesses who spoke to EFE earlier this month. The government has not provided data on the missing, but the citizen initiative 'Desaparecidos Terremoto Venezuela' reports over 29,000. According to unconfirmed figures received by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs last June, the number of missing persons due to the earthquakes could rise to 50,000.
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