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Here\u2019s my contribution to the BBC News Mundo newsletter for this Friday, June 26\u2014two days after the earthquakes in Venezuela…<\/p>\n
When the earthquake struck Venezuela on Wednesday, June 24, at 6:04 p.m., my sister managed to send me a WhatsApp voice message to let me know she was with Mom at their home in Caracas.<\/p>\n
Although I called them immediately several times, no one answered. Friends and family in other chat groups said that phone lines and the internet were down; some had even lost power.<\/p>\n
Those who had a connection used strong words to describe the tremor: \u201cIncredibly intense, awful, terrible\u201d\u2026 Those words also served as reactions to the videos that were beginning to circulate.<\/p>\n
Disoriented by the absence and the distance, we Venezuelans abroad\u2014nearly 8 million who had left the country in the last decade\u2014asked on WhatsApp: \u201cHave you talked to your family?\u201d \u201cCan you help me find my mom?\u201d<\/p>\n
As the dust settled over the rubble, we began to see the scale of the disaster: dozens of collapsed buildings in Caracas and La Guaira, voices calling for help from beneath the ruins, entire families missing.<\/p>\n
This Friday, less than 48 hours after the \u201cdouble earthquake,\u201d there are 589 dead and some 3,000 injured, though images abound of people in the streets, overwhelmed by the tragedy of knowing their relatives are trapped beneath the rubble without help to move the slabs crushing them.<\/p>\n
When asked how we\u2019re doing, we Venezuelans reply: \u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fine if our family members are alive, even if they\u2019re injured, have lost their pets, their homes, and all their belongings.<\/p>\n
Fine if we\u2019re not waiting for rescuers to find a relative who lived in a collapsed house.<\/p>\n
Fine because my sister sent another voice message to let me know that she and my mother had managed to get out of the building after their apartment collapsed.<\/p>\n
Fine when we receive messages of solidarity from friends and acquaintances in Argentina, Colombia, Central America, Europe, the United States, Mexico, Uruguay, and even Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just grateful to be alive,\u201d a friend told me this morning. \u201cGrateful that we\u2019re among those who can help, rather than those who need help.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Aqu\u00ed les comparto mi entrada para el Newsletter de BBC News Mundo este viernes 26 de junio, a dos d\u00edas de los terremotos de Venezuela...<\/p>
Cuando la Tierra sacudi\u00f3 Venezuela, el mi\u00e9rcoles 24 de junio a las 6:04 de la tarde, mi hermana alcanz\u00f3 a enviarme un audio de WhatsApp para avisarme que estaba con mam\u00e1 en su casa en Caracas.<\/p>
Aunque las llam\u00e9 de inmediato varias veces, nadie respond\u00eda. Amigos y familiares en otros chats dec\u00edan que las l\u00edneas telef\u00f3nicas e internet estaban ca\u00eddos, algunos incluso hab\u00edan perdido la electricidad.<\/p>
Los que ten\u00edan conexi\u00f3n usaban adjetivos contundentes para describir la sacudida: \u201cArrech\u00edsimo, jodido, terrible\u201d... Aquellas palabras tambi\u00e9n serv\u00edan para reaccionar ante los videos que empezaban a circular.<\/p>
Desorientados por la ausencia y la distancia, los venezolanos en el exterior, casi 8 millones que abandonaron el pa\u00eds en la \u00faltima d\u00e9cada, pregunt\u00e1bamos por WhatsApp: \u201c\u00bfHas hablado con tu familia?\", \"\u00bfMe puedes ayudar a encontrar a mi mam\u00e1?\u201d.<\/p>
A medida que se asentaba el polvo sobre los escombros, comenzamos a ver la escala del desastre: decenas de edificios ca\u00eddos en Caracas y La Guaira, voces que ped\u00edan auxilio debajo de las ruinas, familias enteras desaparecidas.<\/p>
Este viernes, antes de que se cumplan 48 horas del \"doblete s\u00edsmico\", hay 589 muertos y unos 3.000 heridos, aunque abundan las im\u00e1genes de personas en las calles, rendidas ante la tragedia de saber a sus familiares tapiados sin recibir ayuda para mover las placas que los aplastan.<\/p>
A la pregunta de c\u00f3mo estamos, los venezolanos respondemos: \u201cBien\u201d.<\/p>
Bien si nuestros familiares est\u00e1n vivos, aunque est\u00e9n lesionados, hayan perdido sus mascotas, sus casas y todas sus pertenencias.<\/p>
Bien si no estamos esperando que los rescatistas encuentren a un pariente que viv\u00eda en una casa derrumbada.<\/p>
Bien porque mi hermana envi\u00f3 otro audio para avisarme que ella y mi madre hab\u00edan logrado salir del edificio despu\u00e9s de que su apartamento se quebrara.<\/p>
Bien al recibir mensajes de solidaridad de amigos y conocidos de Argentina, Colombia, Centroam\u00e9rica, Europa, Estados Unidos, M\u00e9xico, Uruguay, e incluso Australia.<\/p>
\u201cS\u00f3lo agradecemos estar vivos\u201d, me dijo una amiga esta ma\u00f1ana. \u201cAgradeciendo que somos de los que podemos ayudar y no de los que necesitan ayuda\u201d.<\/p>
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