00:00Venezuela continues its economic recovery after the two earthquakes that hit the country on June 24, 7.2 and 7
00:09.5,
00:10left a trail of destruction and also of sadness.
00:14But right now, our correspondent Belén de los Santos is currently in Caracas, in Plaza de la Juventud.
00:20It's now covering the economic recovery efforts in Venezuela.
00:24Belén, let's hear at her information.
00:30Hello, Lorena. Exactly as you were saying, we are in the Bellas Artes neighborhood, downtown Caracas,
00:36in the Plaza de la Juventud, or Youth Square, one of the emblematic zones of the capital city of Venezuela.
00:43And as you were saying, we have an image, like a good image of what it means to live through
00:49the days after,
00:51the weeks after the earthquake, because we have, at the same time, if you see here,
00:56these are some of the affected buildings. We've been talking to the people who are working here.
01:01They did not have damages in terms of their structure, main structure.
01:08That is why there are people still living in these buildings, but they did have some damages to walls,
01:13for example, that they do not risk the structure as a whole, but they do need repairmen.
01:19So what we see right now, one of the, some of the workers, there are crews like this from the
01:25government of Caracas
01:27who are working in different sides of the city as we speak.
01:30We were just speaking to one of the workers who told us that there were around 80 people working just
01:37at this building right now.
01:38And at the same time, so while we have the workers repairing some walls, both outside and inside the different
01:47apartments
01:48for the people to continue, of course, to live here, we also have the different businesses who are already opened.
01:56As you can see, grocery stores, for example, also you have some drug stores.
02:02We've been talking to the people here as well, and they tell us that they opened, some of these businesses
02:08have opened just days after the earthquake.
02:12Once they knew that this structure had no risk of collapse, even though they all report, as everyone in Caracas,
02:21in La Guaira,
02:22that, of course, there are still small shakes, the aftershocks that are being felt.
02:28But once they knew that this structure was not in risk, they opened their businesses, because, of course, they needed
02:35to come back to work.
02:36There are sensitive businesses, just as the grocery stores, that they needed to sell their fruits, their vegetables.
02:43It is a process that continues, that has not stopped, and that is what we are seeing right now.
02:48Of course, as one may think, with a tragedy, as the one that Venezuela lived and is living through with
02:56the magnitude of those earthquakes,
02:58of course, there is an impact in terms of the normality of people coming around.
03:03But that is coming back to a new flow, and that affects the economy as well.
03:10So we see the open businesses, the workers coming here, the reparations that are being made in the building.
03:18This is all at the same time a true image of what is happening in Caracas right now.
03:24Thank you so much, Belen.
03:25We will continue following.
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