Venezuela

COMMENTARY Because President Trump insists he "runs" Venezuela today, he shares in its regime's abysmal response to last month's earthquakes — and bears the onus for the country's reconstruction.

Families in the hardest-hit state, La Guaira, have taken to the beach to shower and relieve themselves, with excrement now dotting parts of the once-crowded Caribbean beaches.

In 2024, Venezuelans marshaled online forces to prove their dictatorship had lost — and robbed — a presidential election. In 2026 they're summoning that experience, and those cyber-skills, to respond to an earthquake catastrophe.

The fallout from Venezuela's powerful twin quakes has evolved into a major test for acting President Delcy Rodríguez, sending her scrambling to prevent the humanitarian disaster from becoming a political one in the face of fierce public criticism and efforts by the Venezuelan opposition leader to return from exile.

Hundreds of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue members were welcomed back to Miami this Sunday after spending over a week assisting in search and rescue missions in Venezuela following the country's devastating twin earthquakes.

City officials said they are partnering with Liberty Mission Critical Services, the Miami Marlins, the Miami Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Lodge 20, and the Miami Association of Fire Fighters, IAFF Local 587, to support disaster relief efforts for Venezuelans.

Members of Miami's FL-TF2 worked shoulder-to-shoulder with international crews, utilizing specialized knowledge and high-tech equipment to finally free the trapped man.

When an expat pilot landed in Venezuela with desperately needed earthquake aid from Doral, he learned he'd lost numerous close family and friends in the disaster — but says it's made him even more determined now to deliver help.

With far more dead than living people taken from the rubble a week after Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes, doctors say the biggest dangers now facing survivors were untreated wounds and infectious diseases.

Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country. Damaged hospitals are overwhelmed and conditions in the disaster zone are worsening. The government death toll has surpassed 1,700, with more bodies being found. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding, with thousands displaced and living in unsanitary conditions.

On June 24, 146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble. A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours after Wednesday's earthquakes.