Venezuelans newly deported from US missing after hotel collapse

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Venezuela after earthquakes brought down a hotel in La Guaira, where over one hundred people who had just been deported from the United States were being held. According to the Guardian, a deportation flight from Miami arrived with one hundred forty-six Venezuelans—including nineteen women and seven children—just hours before Wednesday's earthquakes struck. Rescuers are now searching through the collapsed building for survivors and the missing.

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