2026-07-01
21 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
Today on the show, the frontier of food delivery robots
and the mysteries and mystery of Harlan Coben.
But first,
It's been one week since two earthquakes rattled Venezuela, the largest in a century.
Yesterday, rescuers climbed among the rubble in the state of La Guaira.
Calling for silence so that any cries from the wreckage could be heard.
Then, a sliver of good news.
A three-year-old boy was pulled out alive.
It's a story that will only get rarer as days tick by.
But volunteers like Juan Andrade say they will keep searching.
He hadn't yet pulled out anyone alive that day,
but he says his faith is still intact that he will get his family out.
The dangers aren't over.
An aftershock on Monday made a bad situation worse.
The number of casualties is nearing 2,000.
It's pretty grim still in Venezuela.
Kinley Salmon is a Latin America correspondent for The Economist.