Anatoly Kurmanaev

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

This was under Nicolas Maduro, but this was primarily under his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, who won numerous elections by gaining the support of Venezuela's poor, the Venezuela's majority.

And his flagship project was...

something called Gran Misión Vivienda, the Grand Housing Project, which involves the constructions of thousands of buildings, thousands of social housing blocks around the country, which were then given out to Venezuela's poor.

And many of these buildings have collapsed.

Yeah, I mean, you know, Venezuela has a history of heavy seismic activity.

This is an earthquake-prone zone.

This is not a secret.

And statistical models have predicted a strong earthquake here for some years.

This is a country that should have been prepared.

And to be fair, many buildings have withstood the earthquake very well.

Entire neighborhoods have sort of came out of this pretty much unscathed.

So there are construction engineering reasons coming from decisions taken by Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.

But...

There were also decisions taken by the country's current leader, Delce Rodriguez, that have contributed to the ineffective response.

So before Delcy Rodriguez became the leader of the government, she has been a long-term official of this regime.

She has really risen in the ranks of the government under Nicolas Maduro, who made her his economic troubleshooter, given her responsibility for the country's oil industry with the job of helping him stay in power.

And she has orchestrated...

This great shift from the socialist principles that have powered the ruling movement since its foundation towards this laissez-faire, hands-off economic approach.

More of an open market.

And this is what it looks like in practice.

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