Venezuelans make desperate pleas for help a week after devastating double earthquake

According to ABC News Australia, Venezuela's coastal city of La Guaira faces a humanitarian crisis more than a week after a devastating double earthquake. Two quakes—measuring seven point two and seven point five magnitude—killed at least twenty-two hundred people. Rescue teams desperately need heavy machinery to continue searching through the rubble for survivors. But anger is growing in the community: the government has been slow to respond, and desperately needed help simply hasn't arrived. Families searching for loved ones are running out of hope and patience.

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