00:00The U.S. attack on Venezuela on January 3rd caused around 100 deaths and considerable damages to infrastructure.
00:06Little by little, stories about what the Venezuelans witnessed that dreadful night are coming up to the light.
00:12Our correspondent Ryan Mears brings us one of them. Let's take a listen.
00:19In the early hours of January 3rd, residents of Carlos Solblet, a neighborhood in La Guayra, Venezuela,
00:26were awakened as their building shook from the shock of a series of explosions in a nearby Navy base.
00:33Suddenly, a missile struck a four-story residential building,
00:37killing an 82-year-old grandmother named Rosa Elena González de Llanes.
00:43When we managed to get out to the living room, we saw that the door was gone.
00:48The wooden door had been completely blown away by the force, by the sound.
00:52So then when I said, let's calmly open the gate, I told my husband,
00:57because we didn't know what could be waiting for us, since everything was full of dust.
01:02When we opened the gate, thank God, we stepped out cautiously because we realized the wall was no longer there.
01:08If we had run out, we would have all plunged into the void.
01:12Immediately after the bombing, the government evacuated the residents and began fixing the building,
01:18hiring local youth to help in the construction.
01:20Now, after 24 days, they are preparing to move back.
01:25The truth is that I am very grateful and happy because we have received a great deal of support from the government,
01:32both national and regional.
01:34The government of, well, Nicolás Maduro, where now the vice president, is acting as president.
01:40They have given us all the support possible.
01:43They have been working non-stop since the moment it happened.
01:46The attention has been excellent.
01:48They have practically rebuilt the building.
01:50The senseless violence that took place on January 3rd, during the U.S. government's kidnapping of the Venezuelan president and first lady,
01:58which caused approximately 100 deaths, has left a lot of questions in the minds of the residents of Carlos Solblet.
02:05I think this happened due to foreign interest in the world that they want to take from Venezuela.
02:13They want to take over Venezuela.
02:15In fact, they are already talking about it.
02:19They are acting like they want to turn Venezuela into the first-in-law state of the United States.
02:24It's been 24 days since the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and first lady, Celia.
02:35Brian Muir, Telesur Laguaira.
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