Venezuela’s American masters missing in earthquake recovery efforts

The U.S. government may have offered $150-million in aid for Venezuela after the June 24 earthquakes, but it has also sold at least $8-billion of Venezuelan oil since it took control of the country’s oil industry.

Rubble in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 27, three days after earthquakes hit the country. There’s plenty of blame to share for the regime’s failure to respond quickly and effectively to the aftermath of this emergency, writes Gwynne Dyer.Screenshot courtesy of BBC News

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 29, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault. Big earthquakes in Venezuela seem to happen about a century apart (1812, 1902, 2026), so you can’t blame the planners and the politicians for not being well prepared for this one. How high a priority ...

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