2026-01-08
28 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, the view from Venezuela on what comes next.
I actually did what I have come to call an apocalyptic shopping spree two months ago.
I went to the supermarket and I bought like 20, 30 cans of canned food.
This is a Venezuelan journalist based in Caracas.
We're calling her Anna, but that's not her real name to protect her identity.
And we actually bought a Starlink satellite because we thought,
you know, if something happens and they caught the internet,
we still have to be able to communicate with our family members and know what's going on.
So we were preparing for this.
Anna was awake in the early hours of Saturday morning when she heard the first blasts.
I'm a bit of an insomniac, so at almost 2 a.m.
I was awake and the first explosion, I swear, I thought it was a earthquake.
My room has a big window overlooking the north, the mountain,
that is so emblematic to Venezuelans, and it started trembling.
The walls were shaking.
We had a earthquake here last year,
so this time what I did is I got up and I ran to the living room where we have a hanging lamp.
And you know, I thought that if it was moving, the confirmation of the earthquake, but it wasn't.
It wasn't moving.