Kinley Salmon
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169 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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But I think that narrative, which was already being overstated by Donald Trump, is now being severely tested.
Well, that's right.
My colleague's been speaking with a number of people, telling him that they've been left on their own in that first critical 48 hours after the quakes, when there's the highest chance of getting people out alive.
A lot of people saying it was just volunteers.
There was not really any serious government help.
Aid has been arriving since then, but slowly.
And there's been just crucial shortages, a shortage of heavy machinery to move rubble.
Or in some cases, there's been machines, but no fuel for the machine.
Leaving people scribbling with their hands trying to find loved ones.
And it's also, I think, the case that a lot of this very weak response is a result of a hollowing out of the Venezuelan state over decades of corruption under the Maduro regime, under its predecessor of Hugo Chavez.
And that means that just firefighters have got equipment problems.
Hospitals are ill-equipped as well.
Millions of people have fled the long economic disaster in Venezuela.
And among them, of course, many.
people who'd be crucial in a moment like this, like nurses and doctors.
The government also seems to be trying to centralize the response, keep a control of everything, and that's been getting in the way in some cases.
And the last thing I think is that there's this growing suspicion that some of the buildings that collapsed were sloppily built by the government itself.
Plenty of them were part of social housing projects or had been built without being required to follow regulations or on bad terrain.
So there's a variety of sources of anger that are really coming into focus now.
That's right.
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