00:00Over a month after the June 24th twin earthquakes, La Guayra State faces different realities.
00:06While areas like Caraballeda and Catia La Mar are still facing difficulties in terms
00:11of recovery, these affected zones like Diez de Marzo have become a source of economic
00:15support for harder hit communities.
00:18Our correspondent Medela Santos has the details.
00:25Hello, studios, coming to you from La Guayra, particularly from the Diez de Marzo neighborhood,
00:30very close to Maiketia.
00:32This was one of the areas that was not as affected by the double earthquakes of June 24th.
00:38We've been going through the state trying to understand how every zone was affected and
00:46what is life like after 33 days from that moment, I think that one of the key aspects
00:52to really understand La Guayra today is that the whole state, every corner of the state
01:00tells a different story depending on how affected it was, how affected the population was.
01:05Of course, this is a tragedy that has affected every single person depending on the material
01:13damages but also the losing of family members, of co-workers, of friends, of customers.
01:20Right now, what we're seeing is that different zones such as this one that we are right now
01:25here have, of course, started coming back in terms of its economic activity.
01:30Actually, the grocery store that you see behind me, that it's quite big, opened its doors on June 26th.
01:37So, barely a day and a half after everything happened, the doors were opened.
01:43Of course, that wasn't coming back to normality.
01:46This meant that many of the employees, for example, were majorly affected because depending
01:53on where they live across the state, well, that had to do with the level of damage
01:58and the losses they were going through.
02:01So, coming back to its activity, this grocery store and its managers, they had to deal with
02:08all the flexibility of understanding that not every employee was available, that many were
02:15dealing with major losses back home and that also had to do with the economic recovery that we are now
02:24seeing.
02:25The image right now is of a store that is open, of customers coming and going.
02:31Let's recall that still to this moment, the most affected areas like Caravalleda, for example,
02:37like Katia Lamar as well, there are not so many stores open.
02:43Actually, many, many of the options have shut down or are still unable to open.
02:50So, the people, whoever they can, they are coming here also in groups trying to get their main groceries
02:57and that is part of life in La Guaira as well.
03:02These places have been open and they are also a place of support in this case in terms of its
03:09economic activity to the other areas that were the most affected.
03:13That is the situation so far.
03:16This is from La Guaira, near to my Katia.
03:19I go back to you now.
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