Paul Adams

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Global News Podcast · UN says over 50,000 missing after Venezuela quakes · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

That sort of game of stopping earth moving to listen again and see if there's any signs of life.

It's just harrowing to see, with all the neighbours sitting out on their porches, waiting for information, crossing their fingers, praying and so on.

And I'm looking right as we speak at homes that have had the complete front of them sheared off, apartment blocks that will never be possible to be inhabited again.

I've seen...

groups of architects and surveyors, presumably from the city and some private firms, trying to work out what is safe, what can be salvaged and what eventually will need to be demolished.

But for right now, I think the majority of the focus of most Venezuelans is on this shocking, this awful figure of 50,000 missing.

Well, let's start with the numbers.

I mean, we've seen the number of dead creep up from, you know, around about 100 to then over 200 and now closer to a thousand.

And the fears are that those numbers, that shocking number of 50,000 missing, will start to be converted into, unfortunately, numbers of dead in due course.

As for the second question about whether or not the state can cope, basically, whether or not there's sufficient equipment, earth-moving equipment and so on, what the response has been, well, I think it's fair to say it's been patchy, as you might expect.

Venezuela has been through some extremely tough economic times in recent years.

There's been deep-seated problems with corruption and so on.

So at a time like this, you're right, those things are exposed.

There's the fact that in the economic turmoil of recent years, somewhere between 20% to 25% of the population left.

There's been this massive outward exodus of young people and expertise.

Plus, of course, the political situation that only a matter of months ago, six months ago,

There were airstrikes in this city.

This nation had its president removed at gunpoint by US troops.

All of these things create instability, of course.

So look, I think the truth of the matter is that Venezuelans are coping the very best they can.

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