00:01At least 164 people lost their lives, and nearly a thousand were injured after powerful back-to-back earthquakes hit
00:08Venezuela on Wednesday evening.
00:10Acting President Delce Rodriguez warned the toll was expected to rise as rescuers searched, collapsed buildings.
00:16The casualty figures excluded the state of La Guerra, which Rodriguez described as a disaster zone, and the area hardest
00:23hit.
00:24She declared a state of emergency during an address to the nation, adding that several countries had offered help, including
00:30the United States and several Central and South American nations.
00:35I want to thank the governments of the world who immediately happened to these sisms.
00:42They communicated with Venezuela to offer solidarity and support.
00:46The United States, Panama, Qatar, Cuba, Nicaragua, Turkey, Jordan, Barbados, Curacao, Colombia, Reino Unido, Brazil, Mexico.
01:01The United Nations Organization, the ONU, and financial multilateral organizations that have already communicated
01:08on various routes with the Venezuelan government to express their solidarity with Venezuela.
01:14The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century,
01:21causing damage in several states, including at the country's main airport in Caracas.
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