Anatoly Kurmanaev

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The Daily · The Fallout of Massive Earthquakes for Venezuela — and the U.S. · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

There were people digging through pretty much every collapsed building.

A few relatives standing on the side of a road.

The earthquake happened a few days before I arrived, so the chances of finding someone alive have faded a lot by the time I was there.

There's a lone excavator digging through the rubble.

It feels a bit chaotic.

Like, taking out a glass of sand from the beach.

So the official death toll is around 2,000 people by now.

And yesterday, the government suggested that it could rise to about 10,000.

Wow.

There are no reliable estimates of missing, but the crowdsourcing platforms put the number at about 50,000.

We should not take that too seriously.

There's a lot of caveats here, you know.

But I think it is not unlikely that the number of deaths will end up being in five digits.

So first of all, Natalie, these were very powerful earthquakes, objectively powerful, that would have caused destruction in many places around the world, if not most.

These were twin earthquakes, a very unusual set of circumstances, and they also occurred during a public holiday.

This was an unusually very busy time for the area that ended up suffering the most.

So widespread destruction and death was perhaps unavoidable.

But there are growing questions being asked whether decisions made by the government have contributed to the destruction.

Many of the destroyed buildings or many of the buildings that appear to have caused the most death have been social housing, which has been very rapidly built in the last decade.

15, 20 years to meet political objectives that were basically built around election time, to garner votes, and there's growing indications that corners were cut in building those buildings.

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