Paul Adams
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394 appearances
14 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Paul Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that picture that I tried to paint for you in Catia Lamar is really just how bad and difficult things are for so many in Venezuela.
Well, there are earthquakes in Venezuela and obviously a lot of the buildings have been built to code.
But over the years, for whatever reason it may be, lack of infrastructure, lack of investment, poor building codes in the first place or simply corruption to sort of cut corners.
There are sways of the country that are simply not up to building code.
That's true across Latin America.
Mexico, which I know very well and where I live, is a country that has improved its building codes over time to bring it up to earthquake code.
All the schools, for example, are going through that experience now.
But Venezuela lags behind in that regard, as has been made abundantly clear by this event.
I would love to ask you about what Serena Williams' 2026 has that maybe Serena Williams 2000 didn't have, that maybe Serena Williams 2016 didn't have.
What are the best things about being you right now?
So is that what makes it most different, walking in here this year, that you can be totally free?
I don't know.
You think?
I do.
OK.
But there is a bigger message here.
I'm standing on the very corner of my street and only a matter of metres away is a completely flattened building.
I used to walk past it every day.
I lived three doors down.
A very, very strange feeling to be looking at that building so devastated, knowing that as the earth moving equipment moves in now to pull out rubble and make a situation safe for rescue crews to try and go back in again.
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