Back at the end of June, the two teenagers had gone to the beach on Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline. Winder wanted to take their 10-year-old brother Moissés, but he was grounded. “I kept insisting but my mum just wouldn’t budge,” he says. As they were heading home on the evening of the 24th, earthquakes of magnitude
Families in Venezuela are still searching for the remains of their loved ones, lost in the rubble of collapsed apartment buildings that line the coast of La Guaira, the region hardest hit by two earthquakes on June 24. Government officials say the death toll has surpassed 5,300, although it is estimated that the number of
The opposition group is made up of former lawmakers who were elected to the National Assembly in 2015, the last time opposition parties won a majority in the legislative body. National Assembly elections held since then have been boycotted by the opposition or widely dismissed as neither free nor fair, as Maduro and his PSUV
The FIFA World Cup final halftime show continues to grow. Variety has learned exclusively that the event will now also include members of the New York Philharmonic and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, who will jointly perform a tribute to Venezuela in the wake of its recent devastating earthquakes. Gustavo Dudamel, the outgoing
Amid the desperation created by the two earthquakes in Venezuela, there are also incredible stories of survival. In La Guaira, northern Venezuela, BBC international correspondent Yogita Limaye met a 12-year-old girl who was pulled from the rubble on Friday after more than thirty hours. Apart from a fracture in her left foot and some scratches
A man has been rescued alive after being trapped for eight days in the rubble of a building that collapsed after two earthquakes in Venezuela. Rescuers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after first locating him under 140 tons of debris. Nearly 2,300 people have been confirmed dead in the earthquakes that