Camille Rodríguez Montilla

He was in college and, well, he slept on the street for like a week because his family was too scared to go inside the building.

And since then, we had not seen something like this.

Indeed.

Actually, something that really, really moved me was how everyone and anyone was trying to help.

People were volunteering to move rubble away from the buildings to participate in rescue operations.

Store owners here in Altamira were taking the water that they had in their shops and even sodas and handing it out to policemen and just...

random people on the street just helping everyone they could.

And yeah, there's no transportation.

Power seems to be working fine in most areas here.

But yeah, there are definitely going to be some water shortages, I expect, because most of the water service has been canceled in some areas of the city.

Not at all.

I think there are two important things.

One of them is that, yeah, we're not used to this.

We're not used to catastrophes like this happening in Venezuela.

And the other thing is that, as you probably know, David, we've been undergoing a huge economic, political and social crisis for the past 15 years, I would say.

It's been getting worse and worse.

Then it gets better.

And then we go back down again.

So if...

I believe almost 70% of the population lives in poverty.