Article 76ZDH ‘God is punishing the politicians’: anger at earthquake response grows in Venezuela

‘God is punishing the politicians’: anger at earthquake response grows in Venezuela

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Tom Phillips in Caracas
from World news | The Guardian on (#76ZDH)

Threat of social unrest rises as public indignation at lack of disaster aid comes on top of fallout from US military intervention

A revolution in ruins: fury amid the rubble of a housing project in quake-hit Venezuela

Public anger at what many perceive as the Venezuelan government's botched response to twin earthquakes that killed nearly 4,500 people is growing, with one grieving mother caught on camera berating the son of former president Nicolas Maduro.

Maduro's politician son received a hostile reception while visiting a semi-destroyed social housing project named after his father's late mentor Hugo Chavez.

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