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Looting was reported in La Guaira, Venezuela, after two earthquakes struck the country, with shops, warehouses and supermarkets targeted in Catia La Mar on June 26.

Acting President Delcy Rodriguez said military forces would be deployed in La Guaira and the state government will be "militarised" to facilitate rescue work and 2,600 tons of food had been distributed there.

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00:44And my children told me to take away from here, we don't want to die.
00:50Well, they saw that the whole world disappeared from there.
00:54I didn't want to leave my house alone,
00:56and I was waiting for them to leave the house,
00:59and I was waiting for them to leave the house alone.
01:05So my partner, as a funcionario, told me to come here
01:09to camp with my daughter,
01:12that I was more safe than with my daughter,
01:14so that I didn't leave my house alone.
01:17We are being attended very well,
01:19we thank those countries that have been added,
01:23to Zulia, to Colombia,
01:28all those countries, we are very grateful.
01:30Here, really, we don't need food.
01:34We have had cold, because it's normal,
01:37it's not easy, it's not easy what we are living.
01:42We are being taken away from a city of Guaira,
01:43because it's a city of Guaira,
01:45we really need support,
01:46we need to be able to take away from those homes.
01:49There is still people living on those homes.
01:52And here we are, we can not be afraid.
01:53We have received a lot of clothes, clothes, shoes, we have a lot to do with them,
02:00but we are asking them to help the Venezuelan people to help us with insumos like
02:05toadshows, we need pañales for adults, for children, colchonetas, we need sábanas,
02:11because we have to cover them from the night, from the cold, from the lluvia,
02:14they are going to be long days, this is just the beginning, señores.
02:17I have seen on social media that we have already been made of food,
02:20this is not only for today, this is for several days.
02:23So, we are going to keep the calm, we need first needs and clean articles.
02:33What you have seen already in images is very significant infrastructure damage,
02:38multi-story buildings collapsed across very large geographic parts of the country,
02:44but what we are paying attention to beyond that is really how do we shore up the public services,
02:51in particular the health services in the impacted areas, and how do we deliver essential relief
02:58items to the populations that have been impacted in the days ahead, but start thinking about the,
03:05even the longer term, this is going to be a months long, not weeks long response to the earthquakes.
03:11The airport is damaged, that is presenting a real obstacle right now to getting in supplies at scale.
03:18We have pre-positioned stock in country that we are able to use and stock in the neighbouring country,
03:23Colombia, to meet the needs we are going to need airport access, there are telecommunications issues,
03:29internet connectivity is very patchy.
03:31This is common in an earthquake aftermath, as you have the damage to the infrastructure,
03:36also makes it hard to reach the people who have been impacted by that.
03:43This is the last weekend.
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