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As of this writing, 68,000 people were missing after the devastating June 24 earthquakes in Venezuela. We are well past the 72 hours that are commonly considered the amount of time after such a catastrophe that those who are trapped and\/or injured under rubble can be assumed to still be alive.<\/p>

Read more Faithful to the alarm, inauthentic to the science<\/a><\/p>\n

The carnage from this brutal act of nature was amplified by decades of neglect, corruption, and political ideology:<\/p>\n

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Rescue workers sifting through the rubble made a grim discovery: entire apartment complexes, many erected under Hugo Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s \u201cGrand Housing Mission,\u201d were little more than facades held together by Styrofoam and thin concrete shells.<\/em> Video from the scene shows rescuers pulling apart walls with their bare hands, the interior material crumbling like packing foam. \u201cNo wonder everything crumbled like cardboard,\u201d one rescuer remarked, as colleagues openly criticized the regime\u2019s failures.<\/p>

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From 1998, when Hugo Ch\u00e1vez first assumed the presidency, until the U.S. extracted Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on January 3, 2026, Venezuela underwent a slow, inexorable shuffle down a communist rathole — otherwise trumpeted by Ch\u00e1vez as the Bolivarian Revolution.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez proudly referred to himself as a Marxist, and his ruthless assault on the private sector bore that label out. Under the tutelage of his mentor Fidel Castro, Ch\u00e1vez did what he could to spread his Bolivarian Revolution to Central and South American countries, with some limited measure of success. And now, the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Venezuelans can be added to Chavez\u2019 and Maduro\u2019s loathsome legacy.<\/p>

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