Minutes Apart, A Capital Shaken: Venezuela’s Double Earthquake And The Strain Of Disaster On A Fractured State
TWO TREMORS, ONE CAPITAL, NO WARNING Earthquakes rarely announce themselves twice. Venezuela was struck by back-to-back powerful earthquakes minutes apart on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, with buildings collapsing in the capital, Caracas, in a country whose institutional capacity to respond to large-scale disaster has been quietly eroding for years under economic crisis and political turmoil…