00:01Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, decreed seven days of mourning
00:06The national government updated the death toll to 2,595 and reported 12,400 injured from the earthquakes.
00:13June 24. Rodríguez indicated that he ordered that each body be identified.
00:30In cases where that hasn't been possible, we turn to forensic dentistry. We have all the...
00:39forensic doctors in that work that has allowed each corpse to have a file that they
00:47allow for its recognition. Rodríguez defended his handling of the catastrophe by pointing out that
00:52The hours can be counted from the time of the earthquakes and when the deployment was ordered.
00:55of military and police officials. The government avoids referring to missing persons in
01:02their official reports, although they indicated this week that on the day of the earthquakes there were some
01:0630,000 citizens in La Guaira, of whom 6,461 were rescued and more than 13,000 left
01:12either on their own or with the help of family and friends. Nothing else is known.
01:17The United Nations estimates that 50,000 people are missing and puts the number of missing persons at almost 8 million.
01:22The number of people in need of humanitarian aid. The UN also estimates the losses.
01:27economic losses of $6.7 billion, equivalent to 6% of the GDP of this country mired in crisis
01:34in a serious crisis for years. In addition to the death toll, the tragedy also left
01:39Thousands in the streets, many in parking lots, sports fields, or makeshift camps
01:43exposed to the elements, without enough food. Some 58,000 buildings were probably damaged.
01:49or destroyed, according to NASA satellite observations.
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