2 Deadly Earthquakes Hit Venezuela, and Why Chemo Drugs Could Soon Be Rationed
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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines. I'm Tracy Mumford. Today's Thursday, June 25th. Here's what we're covering. In Venezuela last night, the country was rocked by a pair of huge, deadly earthquakes. One of the quakes, with a magnitude of 7.5, was the largest there in more than a century. And people described scenes of terror and confusion as building after building collapsed and residents flooded into the streets.
It was very strong.
Footage posted online showed rescue crews working through the night as they picked over the rubble looking for survivors.
The areas that appear to be the hardest hit are coastal areas. Venezuela's Caribbean coast, which is a densely populated area, one of the poorest areas of the country. So a lot of substandard housing, a lot of informal housing. And the images that we are seeing show widespread devastation.
Anatoly Kermeneyev covers Venezuela for The Times. He says that the full scale of the disaster is not yet clear. As of early this morning, Venezuela's president said more than 160 people had been killed and hundreds more have been injured, numbers that are expected to rise.
Keep in mind that this is a government that's sort of been shaped by secrecy, that has not published any public data for years, in many cases for decades, and have been very strict about information that they provide to the public. So it's important to keep that in mind that the official estimates that we're going to be seeing in the next few days or weeks may not be an accurate reflection of reality or even of the numbers that the government has internally.
The earthquakes are the latest blow to Venezuela, which has been in a state of upheaval for years, facing economic devastation and the dramatic U.S. capture of its authoritarian leader, Nicolas Maduro. Since Maduro was seized by American troops in January, the Trump administration took control of the country's oil industry, turning Venezuela into something resembling a vassal state. Last night, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is deploying search and rescue teams to Venezuela, as well as humanitarian assistance. And other countries, including Spain, Chile, and Argentina, have also offered to send help. You can find live coverage of the latest on the earthquakes in the Times app or at NYTimes.com.
Now, in Washington, my colleague Robert Jemison is tracking what has been a head-spinning 24 hours in Congress.
You know, by the end of the day on Wednesday, it was almost challenging to even remember how the day had begun. We started with Republicans arriving on Capitol Hill optimistic. They expected to spend the day, probably the rest of the week, in a good bit of their recess over the Fourth of July holiday, touting a major housing bill that they believed would strengthen their message on affordability as they make the turn into midterm campaign season.
That's what the Republicans stand for, to give more people a chance to restore the American dream. That's what we promised to the voters, and that's what we are delivering.
But, Robert says, partway through a GOP press conference, as the stage was being put up for President Trump to sign that housing bill, Trump canceled, saying he would not do it until lawmakers passed a separate bill imposing controversial new voting restrictions.
It's not a compromise. It's voter ID. It's proof of citizenship.
What happened during the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela?
And it's also the mail-in ballots.
By lunch, Republicans were being castigated by President Trump.
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