Searching for earthquake survivors in Venezuela

在委内瑞拉搜寻地震幸存者

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2026-07-07

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Tom Phillips speaks to the ordinary Venezuelans struggling to find their friends and family after the country’s worst earthquakes in a century. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, on the ground in Venezuela after disaster.

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  • So the earthquakes, two of them, within the space of 39 seconds,

  • struck at just after 6pm on Wednesday the 24th of June, which is a bank holiday here in Venezuela.

  • Many people were at home.

  • Some people were watching the Brazil-Scotland World Cup game.

  • And they would have had, particularly in La Guaida,

  • where the buildings went down so fast, absolutely no chance to respond, to get out.

  • There is a video that fishermen who were in the water took looking back at the region.

  • And these buildings came down in seconds.

  • Tom Phillips was in Caracas just a month ago.

  • As The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, he's reported from Venezuela through high-stakes political drama,