00:00The United Nations has issued a call for scaled-up support for Venezuela's earthquake recovery as the death toll hit
00:08over 3,500 and counting.
00:11That at the moment, unfortunately, the number of dead people is 3,535 with 6,462 people who have been
00:25saved, recovered from the robes alive.
00:30By the way, of the 6,462 people recovered alive, just the first day, 2,407 were recovered on the
00:41first day, the 24th going into the 25th of June.
00:45This is just to, you know, to exemplify that there was an immediate response on, like, as you said, some
00:55media are trying to, you know, say otherwise.
01:01The number of people wounded is 16,740.
01:08The displaced people, 17,854.
01:13Ambassador to TNT, Alvaro Sanchez Cordero, reports significant infrastructural damage with roughly 856 buildings affected at last count.
01:26Up to the moment, a total of 6,000 buildings have been inspected, of which, of those 6,000, 70
01:34% of them, the result of those analyses is that people can actually come back and live with them.
01:41And 15,000 buildings, houses, homes, still need to go through inspection.
01:49And for that, of course, President Darcy Rodriguez has called even for international assistance in order to make sure that
01:55that type of inspections and assessments go through as quickly as possible.
02:01Because, of course, housing is of utmost priority.
02:06However, Ambassador Cordero notes, the people of Venezuela are no strangers to challenges.
02:13He says the country will overcome.
02:16So many difficulties that we have been going through, which is that this is just another test.
02:21But just like Bolivar said, we will overcome, we will continue.
02:24But the key here, just like then, is unity.
02:27It's not to get into despair or to fall into this type of traps that are put us.
02:35On Tuesday, U.S. search and rescue teams left Venezuela.
02:39However, the U.S. Department of State reports that the Trump administration continues to coordinate, quote,
02:46a massive humanitarian response, with the United States' total financial commitment amounting to more than $386 million.
02:56However, one Venezuelan political commentator is of the view that the United States could do much more.
03:02The disastrous nature of it, that always has a historical component.
03:07And the main historical component I want to point to is the sanctions.
03:10This is a country that's been under, since for something like 12 years, it's been under more years, more like
03:1715 years,
03:18under very severe sanctions from the United States.
03:22So this hinders, on the one hand, it simply weakens the infrastructure.
03:26You know, buildings are not what they would be.
03:28Some buildings are not what they would be.
03:30It weakens the health system, and it weakens the emergency response capacity.
03:36I completely, I totally coincide with what Ambassador Sanchez said is that the response was very good and very immediate.
03:43But one has to think about the historical situation.
03:45So that's why it becomes all the more absurd when a country like the United States says it's going to
03:50help,
03:51and it sends Marines to help, but what it should do is eliminate the sanctions, eliminate the blockade.
03:59It should also free Venezuelan assets.
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