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[Catherine Ellis @Cat_lucy1]

I went back to La Guaira yesterday and there was a different kind of sadness. Not the shock and panic of the first few days but almost an emptiness. It felt quieter - buildings and piles of rubble, but abandonded, now without anyone scouring through them.

At other sites there were noisy diggers clearing the dusty concrete and remnants of people's lives - books, clothes, broken furniture. Most of the international rescue teams had gone, much of the press had too.

I spoke to one guy who had written 'We are alive' on the outside of his house to let people know he and his mother were ok if he nipped out anywhere. But speaking to him I found out his two daughters had been killed in Catia la Mar. He was far from ok.

Another guy walked out from a collapsed building that was mostly concrete slabs and told me he was picking up the remains of his brother and nephew. The remains were just bones. The earthquake had started a small fire that burned their bodies.

A nun stood looking at a heap of debris. I wondered what she was thinking, trying to make sense of it all. And probably unable to.

[Carlos Rodríguez López @caedrolo12]

As a Venezuelan-American who’s registered with the Democratic Party. I’m appalled to see how the progressive and socialist wing of the party has maintained complete silence regarding the humanitarian crisis that Venezuela is currently living.

Back in January, way too many progressive and DSA figures threw themselves to the media, day and night, to condemn the US intervention to arrest Maduro. Most of the time, the reasoning behind the condemnation was that the intervention was putting Venezuelan civilians “at risk”.

However, I have yet to see a similar level of reaction by the same people about the significant and verified amount of innocent Venezuelan lives lost due to the incompetence and corruption by the chavista dictatorship in their earthquake response.

I have not seen a mass condemnation of the complete abandonment that the Delcy Rodriguez government has subjected Venezuelan earthquake victims that are in need of rescue. Progressives and socialists love to talk about how US intervention puts lives at risk. Yet when it’s a socialist government who’s taking lives because of their corruption, then socialists and progressives will not utter a single word.

What socialists and progressives have in prose and flamboyance they lack in character and accountability.

[Vicente Zavarce @metavarce]

Let’s chat @MrBeast

[Víctor @gvcths]

Mis nietos van a pensar que soy embustero de tantas vainas que pasan en Venezuela

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

Lo más triste de todo lo ocurrido en Venezuela, más allá del abandono de la población en medio de la tragedia, será su abandono posterior a la tragedia en un país quebrado y endeudado.

¿A dónde irán los cientos de miles que perdieron sus hogares? ¿Con qué economía se recuperan? Si no existen ni seguros... Es horrible, no paro de pensar. Muchos perdieron la vida y otros su forma de vivir.

En países como EEUU lo material justamente tiene menos valor porque es más fácil de recuperar, el Estado apoya y las aseguradoras funcionan. En Venezuela la crisis humanitaria ya era devastadora y no quiero imaginar cómo quedará ahora.

De verdad el tamaño del dolor que he sentido estos días es difícil de explicar.

[New York Post @nypost]

'Thug' Venezuelan leader with $25M price on his head seen berating US earthquake rescue team https://t.co/NXIYyFvZNp

[Catherine Ellis @Cat_lucy1]

The number of Venezuelans - in Venezuela and abroad - that have contacted me offering me assistance to do my work: transport, food, a place to stay, information, contacts etc is crazy. And that's on top of people I already know here who have given me accommodation, made or bought me food, taken me places. I am overwhelmed. Thank you.

[Catherine Ellis @Cat_lucy1]

Ministry of Communications in Venezuela not communicating. Is there a press trip or not? Can we enter by ourselves or not? Teams are leaving to try to get to La guaira themselves as fed up at the lack of information or at least someone saying there is delay. Zero communication.

[Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez @RepCarlos]

🚨While the US increases its presence in #Venezuela, we should pick-up thug Diosdado Cabello and bring him to justice so he can stop impeding the distribution of aid to those impacted by the earthquake.

[Javierhalamadrid @Javierito321]

Niegan permiso a avión con ayuda humanitaria pero el piloto se hizo el loco e igual aterrizó, les pasó el guebo por la cara

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

Cada día que pasa me doy cuenta que no odio lo suficiente al chavismo.

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

🚨 | Artículo en el Washington Post:

“Los terremotos de Venezuela exponen el costo letal de un sistema construido sobre mentiras”.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

Nuestro tercer avión ya llegó a Venezuela y el cuarto ya va en camino.

Seguimos reforzando esta misión.

Dios bendiga a Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪

[Emmanuel Rincón @EmmaRincon]

Un rescatista dice a Sky News que no tienen ningún equipamiento para auxiliar a las personas, que la gente se está muriendo bajo los escombros y que en lugar de rescatar vidas, van a rescatar cadáveres por el tiempo transcurrido.

[Jonathan Jakubowicz @JoJakubowicz]

Llegó antes el equipo de Bukele que el ejército venezolano.

[Luis Carlos 🏴‍☠️ One Piece @LuisCarlos]

La tragedia es política.

[la gocha777 @Annabellariveea]

Ser venezolano es tan difícil que, a veces, el dolor no solo está en lo que vivimos, sino también en intentar explicárselo a quienes nunca lo han vivido

Es allí cuando la tristeza se hace más profunda, porque para nosotros parece ser una tragedia tras otra, una herida sobre otra. Y aunque muchos intentan comprender, hay dolores que solo entiende quien los ha sentido de cerca

Hoy, como tantas otras veces, Venezuela vuelve a doler más de lo normal

[Noah Bergren @NbergWX]

Pretty rare earthquake activity tonight on Earth.

Both of these things happening within 2 hours of each other:

1 in 1,000 to 1,200 years

• A “doublet” earthquake in Venezuela (two quakes of similar magnitude in the exact same spot)
• A totally separate 6.9+ quake somewhere else (Japan)

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

Toca orar. Sobre todo orar.

Porque ante el desamparo absoluto y la pobre infraestructura, estamos en manos de Dios.

[Claudio Nazoa @ClaudioNazoa]

El que se fastidia en Venezuela es porque quiere. Aquí todos los días pasa una vaina nueva e importante. En Europa para que pase lo que aquí en un día tienen que pasar 10 años.