Tom Phillips
speaker
367 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Tom Phillips’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I don't get the sense that there was a plan for what would happen when this happened.
I don't get the sense that there is particularly a well thought out plan from the Venezuelan government for what is happening now.
I don't see a particular plan other than somehow stagger through this.
And as we've seen before with this regime, just try to survive, just try to stay in power.
Thank you for listening.
Rescue workers and volunteers have spent the night picking through the rubble with their hands, trying to find survivors, pulling some people out of the rubble of these blocks of flats.
Some people say that Venezuela has effectively been turned into a U.S.
protectorate in the months since Maduro's capture.
The Department of War is going to have to play a big logistical role here.
Venezuela, of course, is reeling still from a decade-plus massive economic crisis.
The government is really not well equipped to respond to this kind of disaster.
I mean, really, really disturbing scenes that we're seeing and hearing about from reporters on the ground.
One of our reporters spent the night in Altamira and Los Padres Grandes, which are some
Very upmarket areas of Caracas, homes and hotels, foreign embassies.
I was staying there just a few weeks ago when I was in Venezuela and at least three buildings have come crashing down.
Rescue workers and volunteers have spent the night picking through the rubble with their hands, trying to find survivors, pulling some people out of the rubble of these blocks of flats.
And many, many thousands of people have spent the night out on the streets sleeping on pieces of cardboard or mattresses or in tents because they're too scared to go back into these fractured buildings after two such massive earthquakes.
Yeah, I think at the moment people are just trying to get a sense of what is going on on the ground.
I've seen that Donald Trump has been talking about a devastating number of deaths.
It really is not clear.
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