After the earthquake in La Guaira, two LA residents experienced the loss of loved ones from afar. Unable to leave the US, they are coping with the additional pain of exile and immigration bureaucracy
The government and the opposition launched talks last week aimed at paving the way for elections
The United States considers the island a priority for its intelligence agencies and teams on the ground are seeking to gather more information at a time when a military operation has not been ruled out
Afterwards, the parties said they would remain in continuous working sessions until August 12, when they will decide whether to continue the talks. Opposition leader María Corina Machado has been left out of the process
The success or failure of the dialogue between the chavista government and the democratic opposition will depend on the concrete changes that give Venezuelans control over their own destiny
The Delcy Rodríguez government, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and CAF are taking part in the post-disaster assessment, while controlled demolitions of damaged buildings begin in La Guaira
Talks between Chavismo and the opposition are set to begin on August 1 under Washington’s supervision. The goal is to establish a path toward new elections, two years after Nicolás Maduro falsely claimed victory
With the death toll topping 5,300 and no official count of the missing, residents have taken the search for victims into their own hands as government machinery threatens to clear the ruins before many families have recovered their loved ones
The deposed Venezuelan president was brought before Judge Alvin Hellerstein for his third pre-trial hearing in Manhattan
The US secretary of state reveals that Washington has already disbursed $180 million in earthquake aid
The judgment holds Nicolás Maduro and other Venezuelan officials responsible for the kidnapping of three U.S. citizens who were used in a ‘hostage diplomacy’ swap for Colombian businessman Alex Saab
14 Democratic representatives send a letter, backed by 17 NGOs, warning that financial restrictions are hampering relief efforts and threatening the country’s recovery
The international agency says overcrowded shelters, vaccine shortages and a collapsing healthcare system threaten to spark disease outbreaks
The task requires human effort, machinery, scientific knowledge and resources, but also a new political architecture capable of addressing people’s pain
Academics call for a moratorium on Venezuelan debt, and urge the IMF to restore Caracas’ access to the Fund: ‘The emergency is human before it is political’
Gianluca Rampolla warns that rebuilding after the earthquakes will require unlocking frozen assets, restoring access to multilateral financing and deciding which areas should not be rebuilt
Víctor Torres played a key role in the operation that pulled a security guard alive from the parking garage of a collapsed building eight days after the earthquake
Venezuelan baseball star Eliezer Alfonzo sets up his own rescue operation in La Guaira to search for his wife and daughter
Washington has blocked opposition leader María Corina Machado’s return after the earthquake while backing the controversial handling of the disaster by Delcy Rodríguez’s government
Many relatives are asking the same questions: why the Trump Administration did not notify them of the deportation, and why the Venezuelan government did not release the deportees, who landed before the earthquake struck
The 147 men, women and children who landed in Caracas after being deported from the United States were being held at a hotel that collapsed. Only 12 have been found alive, but one survivor says: ‘I’m sure more of us survived’
Edmundo González, the opposition candidate in the 2024 election, insists the Nobel Peace Prize laureate has the right to return
A week after the disaster, the country remains in survival mode. Tens of thousands of people are still searching for loved ones and sleeping outside collapsed buildings in the hope of a miracle
At the port of La Guaira, hundreds of bodies await identification as relatives line up for blocks
From Galicia, a friend is trying to move mountains. Across the Atlantic in Venezuela, a woman has spent six days beside the building where her parents, brother and two young nephews lie trapped beneath the debris
Five days after the disaster, tensions between residents and authorities are escalating in the hardest-hit areas
EL PAÍS reports from the apocalypse after the earthquake, where precarious conditions and lack of resources mark rescue efforts following the double tremor. Authorities have recovered up to 20 bodies per hour, and the death toll has already reached 1,450