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Frustration grows in Venezuela as earthquake death toll reaches 1,430 51%
By REGINA GARCIA CANO0% ANDRY RINCÓN0% MEGAN JANETSKY0%
6/27/2026, 4:06:24 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Biased Writer Voice, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 44.3% saturation with 219 hits. Analysis detected 1,123 faulty-reasoning hits from 494 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.7% and a BS Rank of 51% (10,803 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 50.60% of the article peer group.
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Tensions flared Saturday as desperation grew in Venezuela’s state of La Guaira as rescuers and civilians searched for earthquake survivors and the death toll rose sharply to 1,430.
Families reported at least 68,900 people missing Saturday, three days after the one-two punch of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes devastated the South American nation.
Venezuelans looking for loved ones and neighbors used shovels, heavy equipment, ropes and bare hands atop mounds of toppled concrete throughout La Guaira, one of the hardest-hit states.
They were joined by a growing number of international rescue teams who began to climb through the rubble, offering a small glint of hope to anguished families.
Tensions peaked over what many Venezuelans viewed as an inadequate response by the government, whose soldiers, firefighters, police and military cadets were evidently underprepared to respond to the scope of the tragedy.
Frustration was amplified by efforts to project the image of a robust state response.
Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours as crucial for retrieving people alive, though that can be extended if they have access to food and water.
Venezuelan officials said 17 flights carrying more than 1,600 rescue team members had touched down by Saturday.
“There’s a pile of bodies over there from last night.
Newborn babies,” said Mileidy Romero, who was among those searching in the seaside town of Caraballeada.
“At 8 p.m. (yesterday) there were people alive down there, and they haven’t bothered to rescue them.
We’ve located several bodies, and they haven’t helped us recover them either.
What are they waiting for?”
A minute later, a man tried to grab a firefighter, shouting and cursing.
“Silence!
Silence!”
rescuers shouted as they tried to confirm whether someone was trapped alive.
Meanwhile, an older man was pulled from the rubble of a public housing building.
Visibly disoriented, he begged a nurse for water.
He fought with personnel who put him into a pickup truck, screaming, “My family!
My family!”
Search teams and foreign aid continued to arrive from Mexico, the U.S., Brazil, El Salvador, France and elsewhere.
On Saturday, Mexican rescue teams climbed over collapsed buildings and pushed their heads into holes in the pancaked concrete to search for signs of life, occasionally hearing movement.
“We’re rescuers from the Mexican military, if there’s anyone down there still alive, make noise or scream.
Now!”
one man shouted.
For many, the images of international aid teams arriving and climbing through the rubble alongside them offered a glimmer of hope.
Yonahí Regalado has been calling out the names of her sister and 1-year-old nephew and godson since 1 a.m. the day after the earthquakes until aid workers began to arrive.
“It doesn’t matter who it is, whoever, whether it’s family or somebody else.
If there is anyone alive, let’s get them out,” she said, as helicopters circled overhead.
Small moments of humanity mixed with grief and terror.
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