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‘It Looked Like a War Zone’: What Relief Workers Found After Venezuela’s Deadliest Earthquakes in Nearly a Century

‘It Looked Like a War Zone’: What Relief Workers Found After Venezuela’s Deadliest Earthquakes in Nearly a Century

Monday, July 20, 2026
Nearly a month after twin earthquakes ripped through northern Venezuela, the country’s official death toll has surpassed 5,000, making the disaster one of the deadliest to strike the country in nearly a century. Tens of thousands of buildings have been damaged or destroyed, entire neighborhoods remain uninhabitable and families who were already living through years…