‘It Looked Like a War Zone’: What Relief Workers Found After Venezuela’s Deadliest Earthquakes in Nearly a Century

Nearly a month after twin earthquakes ripped through northern Venezuela, the country’s official death toll has surpassed 5,000, making the disaster one of the deadliest to strike the country in nearly a century. Tens of thousands of buildings have been damaged or destroyed, entire neighborhoods remain uninhabitable and families who were already living through years of economic hardship are now struggling to survive without homes, clean water or reliable access to food.“The best way I could expla