Venezuela, building collapses
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Why were foreign rescue teams kept waiting outside collapsed buildings in La Guaira? Allegations of hidden money, blocked access and endangered survivors are raising serious questions.
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Earthquake in Venezuela: The horrific collapse of a hotel holding former S.F. Giants' families
Players for a Venezuelan baseball team that included three former Giants saw dust rise into the air. The hotel where several families were staying had collapsed.
For years, engineers worried about how collapse-prone Venezuela's buildings could be in an earthquake. The big problem, they warned, was the prevalence of tall concrete buildings atop soft soils — the kind that amplify shaking when an earthquake strikes.
More than 140 migrants deported from the U.S. were sent to a hotel in Venezuela to await processing. The hotel toppled in the earthquakes, likely killing most of the deportees there, according to relatives.
Lucas Trejo was in Caracas with his team when twin earthquakes struck, collapsing his family's apartment building in Playa Grande, La Guaira.
Over 100 Venezuelan immigrants are missing after the hotel they were staying at collapsed in back-to-back earthquakes hours after being deported to their home country from the United States. A deportation flight flying out of Miami landed in Venezuela on Wednesday,
By Maxwell Briceno and Sarah Kinosian LA GUAIRA, Venezuela, June 29 (Reuters) - When late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez built this coastal housing development bearing his name as part of his socialist revolution,
Frightened travelers ran for their lives inside a Venezuelan airport moments before the building’s ceiling partially collapsed as two powerful earthquakes decimated the South American country. The back-to-back 7.
