by Sarah Anderson, PJ Media:
It’s been exactly two weeks since two major earthquakes struck Venezuela, leaving portions of the country devastated. The death toll is over 3,600 as of Wednesday afternoon, with tens of thousands of people still missing. Here’s a new video of some of the damage.
International response has been huge. As I’ve written many times, Nayib Bukele and El Salvador were on the ground almost immediately with machinery, supplies, and rescue teams, saving lives. Right now, a team from Israel is in Venezuela working on plans to help with rebuilding.
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“Qué difícil es ver este rincón del Caribe así. Tantas veces caminé por estas calles, documentando la belleza de sus atardeceres y la magia de su gente, que ver el rastro que dejó el terremoto del pasado 24 de junio me rompe el corazón.
Es un dolor inmenso verlo devastado, pero… pic.twitter.com/FdHFqlRW3R
— Cristian Crespo F. 🇨🇺 (@cristiancrespoj) July 8, 2026
Of course, the biggest response has been from the United States and rightfully so. As Donald Trump likes to jokingly say, he runs Venezuela now, and that means taking the good and the bad as it comes. The State Department actually released a fact sheet on Wednesday afternoon, with the latest on our humanitarian efforts on the ground. We’ve offered $386 million funneled through trustworthy charitable organizations “providing emergency medical care, food assistance, water and sanitation, shelter, protection, and logistics.”
The State Department, Airlink, and Amazon announced on Wednesday that they are teaming up to fly supplies in weekly for the foreseeable future at no cost to these organizations. The Department of War has many much-needed boots on the ground and has “mobilized to ensure American ships, American aircraft, and American resolve have been present when it matters most.” Our military has helped restore and is now overseeing some operations at Simón Bolívar International Airport. All of this will continue for as long as necessary.
But as I wrote on Monday, this is more than just a humanitarian crisis — it’s also becoming a political one. It has exposed the regime rot still in place, which isn’t surprising. The “interim government” leaders consist of two anti-American siblings whose father was a Marxist guerrilla fighter and one of the most wanted cartel leaders in the U.S.
