00:00And right now we are just hours before it's passed, eight days since the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on
00:09June 24.
00:10At this moment, the rescue operations continue, and right now we have information from our correspondent deployed in La Guaya
00:20State about the current situation, how the people is living this moment.
00:24Let's recall that this will be the eighth date since the two earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24.
00:31Let's hear the information of our correspondent, Belen de los Santos.
00:38Hello, Lorena. How are you?
00:40Just as you were saying, we are here in La Guaya as we have been every minute since the two
00:46earthquakes struck on Venezuela.
00:49And, well, you were just saying it, right?
00:51It is a little bit over a week since that moment.
00:56A lot has happened.
00:57The operations, the rescue operations continue with the Venezuelan brigades, with all its different organizations, alongside the international brigades as
01:08well.
01:09We have been talking to different rescuers, different people responsible for these operations.
01:15All of them have said the same thing.
01:17Operations will not stop until they have absolutely ruled out every possibility of life at every working site.
01:27We have also talked to some of the brigades that explained to us in the past days that they were
01:33starting to go to every site where they had already worked once again to double and triple check the situation
01:41there.
01:42That is the situation in terms of the rescue efforts that, as you were saying, continue, of course, after one
01:51week, more than a week that the earthquakes struck here.
01:58And that is why the efforts are also put strongly on the assistance to everyone who has survived this.
02:09Because what happens now and what happens to the Venezuelan people has to do with what is coming these days,
02:17the weeks, and the months to come have to do with a collective effort of recovery and reconstruction.
02:23And that has to do also with what is happening here in La Guayra, the most affected state.
02:28It is the setting up of temporary camps that are already working, functional, receiving people who have lost their homes
02:38or that have homes with structural damage.
02:42They cannot go back there.
02:44They have places to stay, to receive food, water, a place to sleep, and to just spend these days.
02:53Many while there continue to search and wait for family members that continue to be disappeared, for example.
03:01We have also hospitals bringing attention to those people in need as well.
03:07In the past days, we have been going through these places that are destined for the donations that are coming
03:15from all over the country and also international efforts.
03:19They are collecting them, distributing them among the people, also among other centers.
03:24So all of that is deployed at the same time that the rescue operations continue.
03:30We have the privilege here in Telesur of being able to follow these efforts minute by minute.
03:36And we are not just concentrating on a single thing.
03:39We can go to every place of every temporary camp, every hospital, and really see how this is being lived
03:48on the ground.
03:49A very difficult moment and a moment in which the community as a whole, from the government organizations, to the
03:57communes, to the international brigades,
03:59are joining together in order to provide the most assistance possible in the situation.
04:06Belen, I also want to ask you, as the day has been passing, and it's also a very important topic
04:13also to talk about,
04:15how it's currently the emotional situation of the family, of the people that are there,
04:21because we have seen the government also talking about the psychological assistance that is very important to assist the people
04:30that have passed throughout all this trauma, throughout all this difficult situation.
04:34I want to ask you, how can you see about the emotional situation of the people in La Guayra State,
04:41the most affected state of all Venezuela?
04:47Well, of course, the emotional situation, the emotional impact, as anyone could possibly understand,
04:55it's very, very harsh, it's very, very difficult for people just to see their homes destroyed by such a natural
05:04force
05:04as this earthquake, something that could not have been foreseen,
05:08and not only to speak of those who have lost family members or still don't know what happened to them,
05:16the emotional distraught is devastating, really, of course.
05:20But as you were saying, there are such great efforts made in terms of incorporating this phase of the tragedy
05:31to the assistance.
05:33This is not just medical assistance, not only just food and water, the psychological assistance is also very important.
05:40Let me tell you that, for example, hours ago, we were not here in Caracas, in La Guayra,
05:46but in Caracas at one of the temporary camps, we spoke to some of the doctors there
05:52who had been attending to people both in Caracas, in La Guayra as well,
05:58and they were telling us the importance of this.
06:01They were saying, of course, this is medical attention, but we are actually also consoling them,
06:08almost becoming their friends.
06:10These people need this human attention first, and that is the goal of everyone deployed.
06:17We have been seeing this same sentiment in different temporary camps.
06:23We also visited one just a few days ago here in La Guayra, set up for elderly people in particular.
06:31There's one also caring for children in particular.
06:36So the idea of building these spaces that particularly care to different sectors of the population,
06:43also the most vulnerable sectors of the population, has this in mind.
06:48The idea that it is not just providing a shelter, and that is very important, of course.
06:54It is providing a home, a psychological assistance, and just accompanying these people
07:01through this very difficult time in a collective effort, Lorena.
07:05Thank you so much, Valen.
07:06I think your information is very important in this moment,
07:10and gives us also a comprehensive understanding of how the people are also standing out in this situation.
07:18And now we go with other information at this moment.
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