Cristóbal Picón Ball

Journalist | @Arsenal sufferer | Junior Editor @CaracasChron

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

Negotiations were due to begin on Saturday. Instead, Jorge Rodríguez and Dinorah Figuera announced a phone call and issued similar statements.

Elections and institutions are expected as the priorities. Disaster response now sits at the top of the agenda👇
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[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

How much money has the 🇺🇸 disbursed to 🇻🇪 since Jan. 3?

We don't know. Most figures come from US officials speaking off the record to reporters. The last public account came in April, when Amb. Kozak said $3 bn had been “moved through” to Venezuela.

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[Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) @Malachians]

Ornstein is a perfect example to follow for anyone looking to get in to football journalism. He doesn’t entertain, he informs. He doesn’t build a brand of tearing other people down, he doesn’t say the same thing twice just for RT’s and doesn’t speak at all unless there is something meaningful to be said. It is so unbelievably difficult to be that well informed and to be that accurate, he is obviously someone who has a lot of trust of key people in the game. That’s how it’s done.

[Germania Rodriguez Poleo @iamGermania]

"(Machado says “coño”—a favorite curse word—far more than you’d expect from a woman educated by nuns.)" - Clearly the writer has not met many Venezuelan women educated by nuns lol
https://t.co/GUpTEn0nFT

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

Military officials appointed to lead Funvisis, Venezuela's seismological institute, oversaw the dismantling of its nationwide monitoring network and educational mission.

@RunRunesWeb journalist @vickyfermin with an in-depth investigation👇 https://t.co/5DK2ZwK4gZ

[Juan 🇻🇪 @ElJuan_TM]

Tuchel going defensive way too early, the german have achieved more sneaky ways to destroy English lives

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

In 2005, Japan handed Chávez a disaster prevention plan for Caracas.

It identified 98,237 vulnerable buildings and proposed a project that could have been completed five years ago, for about 1/4 of today's response cost.

@kaoru_yonekura on the 🇯🇵 report👇https://t.co/s8eogk0lNR

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

In the case of a 1967-type earthquake, JICA's 🇯🇵 project for Caracas would have reduced the number of heavily damaged buildings from 10,000 to ~1,300, and the number of casualties from 4,900 to ~400.

The Japanese report Chávez & Maduro decided to ignore👇 https://t.co/s8eogk0lNR

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

After days and nights searching, they found Kathy's body in the ruins of her building in Playa Grande, La Guaira.

From Montreal, her cousin Olga can’t stop wondering what could have been different.

The questions the earthquakes have carved inside us👇 https://t.co/jJKORZhTK4

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

Volunteers called the place a war hospital. The nickname was perfect. What was happening there does resemble a place devastated by bombs and gunfire.

“Everything I saw was horrible and has affected me mentally, but even so, I don’t want to stop helping”👇
https://t.co/XXEJtT7U1L

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

The economic agenda will no longer be dominated exclusively by growth, but by reconstruction. We need to prevent the disaster from destroying a large part of Venezuela’s remaining physical and human capital.

By @aroliveros👇
https://t.co/xrrUk11UkZ

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

📍 Playa Grande:

A Civil Protection official reports a lack drilling tools or mats to rest on.

A volunteer describes the absence of a government deployment to coordinate relief efforts.

A survivor says he won't rest before finding his brother's corpse👇
https://t.co/rszH4ajpnI

[Juan Manuel Trak @juanchotrak]

Que no tengan equipos fue una decisión presupuestaria y de política pública.

[Nicmer Evans @NicmerEvans]

Ella es Karen Brewer, y su explicación de cómo debe organizarse y operar la sociedad civil es una breve y extraordinaria cátedra de lo que se debe hacer... VÉALO ANTES DE ACTUAR Y ACTUEMOS!!!!!

[Daniel Blanco @DanielBlancoPaz]

Además del desgaste físico propio de trabajar sin los medios adecuados, nuestros rescatistas se están exponiendo a sobrecarga cognitiva y trauma vicario. Necesitamos un relevo operacional de carácter urgente para el personal de emergencia en Venezuela. https://t.co/QTreXoJeLP

[Andrea Delgado C 🇻🇪 @DelgadoAndreaC]

Hora: 1:40 p.m.

Actualmente están devolviendo a las personas que suben a El Junquito con insumos y donaciones

El motivo es que los centros de acopio y las zonas afectadas ya se encuentran totalmente colapsados y abarrotados de ayuda humanitaria

[Daniel Blanco @DanielBlancoPaz]

@DelgadoAndreaC Misma situación en Vargas, el volumen de voluntarios en vehículos particulares hace imposible trasladar donaciones desde Caracas.

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

🫓 Best way to help Venezuelans from abroad right now is with 💵

We recommend donating to the @VaccUSA Foundation:

❤️ Funds go to @caritasdevzla

✅ The VACC Foundation is a 501(c)(3). If you pay taxes in the US, your donation is tax deductible.

👉https://t.co/3BmPxMUCEr

[Caracas Chronicles @CaracasChron]

We compiled a verified list of fundraising campaigns.

Monetary donations are the most effective and immediate way to help. Physical supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but right now, CASH TRANSFERS WORK BEST.

How to help 🇻🇪 from abroad👇 https://t.co/8vVD3RRpro

[P. L. Garmendia G. 🌻 @plgarmendia]

Alfonso es el hermano de mi abuela, un médico querido por la comunidad de Caraballeda y extrañado por su familia. Sigue sin aparecer desde el terremoto. Aprecio cualquier RT o información sobre su paradero.