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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado leads a demonstration in Caracas in January 2025. Photo: dpa
Natural disasters

Fallout from Venezuela’s quakes turns political, as Machado seeks return

Amid growing anger over the government’s disaster response, the exiled Nobel Peace laureate says the country needs ‘figures it can trust’.

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Venezuela

Venezuela’s leader defends quake response as thousands remain missing

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Natural disasters

‘Truly a miracle’: man rescued from Venezuela rubble 8 days after twin quakes

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China-Latin America relations

Aid for Venezuela, China-Colombia ties: 7 Latin America relations reads

From Argentina’s move towards Beijing to Lula’s beef deal, here are highlights from the SCMP’s foreign correspondents in June 2026.

A Brazilian rescuer works in the aftermath of earthquakes in Venezuela. Photo: Reuters
Venezuela

Venezuela faces post-quake medical crisis as threat of infections looms

A public health emergency in Venezuela, unless quickly controlled, could take more lives in the days and weeks ahead.

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Japan

Tsunami from Japan megaquake could destroy 2 million cars: survey

The government says the probability of a Nankai Trough megaquake occurring within the next 30 years stands at 60 to 90 per cent or higher.

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Venezuela

Video | Dog pulled from Venezuela rubble days after quakes

News of the rescue came as Venezuela’s death toll rose above 1,700 on Monday.

News of the rescue came as Venezuela’s death toll rose above 1,700 on Monday
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Venezuela

Video | Man digs through Venezuela quake debris to search for family

Quake victims have accused authorities of being too slow in mobilising rescue efforts including sending heavy equipment to help search for more survivors.

Venezuela

From raid to relief: US military aids Venezuela after twin earthquakes

US deploys forces and drone assets to spearhead relief, marking a stunning shift for a relationship upended by a raid six months ago.

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Venezuela

Venezuela survivors pulled from rubble days after quakes

Amid diminishing hope, a preliminary assessment via satellite data says the two earthquakes likely damaged or destroyed 58,870 buildings.

US firefighters on Sunday pulled a survivor from the rubble of a building that collapsed in Wednesday’s earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela. Photo: AP
Venezuela

Why did they pancake? Building failures, soft soil amplify Venezuela quake destruction

Experts point to poor code enforcement, risky geography as factors in collapses in the wake of twin earthquakes.

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An aerial view shows the catastrophic destruction of flattened housing structures in La Guaira, Venezuela. Photo: Handout via Reuters
Venezuela

Over 100 Venezuelans deported from US missing after quakes level hotel

Their flight landed just hours before the disaster. Their families are searching for answers amid a soaring death toll.

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China-Latin America relations

‘Venezuela is our home’: Chinese Venezuelans rally after earthquakes

Merchants across the country transformed shops, warehouses and community networks into a relief effort after the deadliest quakes in decades.

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Venezuela

Video | Venezuelan rescuers pull survivors from rubble 5 days after deadly quakes

Experts say the first 72 hours after natural disasters are critical for saving those trapped, but after that the search turns to recovering bodies.

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Venezuela

Critical rescue window passes in quake-hit Venezuela as death toll nears 1,500

While a 21-year-old man was found alive after 106 hours trapped under rubble, hopes are fading for thousands of people unaccounted for.

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Rescuers search through the rubble in hard-hit La Guaira state. Photo: AP
Natural disasters

Venezuelan boy pulled alive from rubble 3 days after deadly quakes

Residents clawed away rubble from collapsed buildings in search of survivors, amid public outrage over the government’s response.

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Americas and the Caribbean

Time runs out for thousands missing after Venezuela earthquakes

With at least 920 dead and more than 51,000 missing, a critical 72-hour window for rescuing survivors has almost closed.

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Venezuela

Editorial | World quick to answer stricken Venezuela’s call for aid

Even countries that had broken off ties with Caracas have reached out to help, showing the power disaster has to unite people in adversity.

Rescuers work at a building damaged by an earthquake in the Altamira area of Caracas, Venezuela, on June 25. Photo: EPA
Americas and the Caribbean

‘We’ll rescue the trapped’: Venezuela earthquakes death toll rises to 920

Tens of thousands are reported missing. Almost 3,000 people are confirmed hurt, says interim president. Millions could be affected.

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Venezuela

Venezuela earthquakes draw aid from governments that cut ties with Caracas

Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador and other governments that suspended relations with the country offer rescue teams and humanitarian aid.

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Natural disasters

Venezuela twin quakes death toll hits 235 as rescuers comb rubble for survivors

Thousands are missing and many feared dead after the country was hit by two of the strongest tremors in over a century.

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A man walks among the rubble of a building in La Guaira, Venezuela. Photo: AP
US-Venezuela conflict

As Venezuela reels from earthquake disaster, a test for new US relationship

Washington’s swift disaster response clearest indication yet of how relationship with Caracas has evolved, but bigger challenges lie ahead.

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People walk and ride past collapsed structures and debris following an earthquake in Catia La Mar, Venezuela, on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Natural disasters

Thousands feared dead after major earthquakes hit Venezuela

Venezuela’s president gives first death toll as Trump says the US is ‘ready, willing, and able to help’.

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The Philippines

Chinese-Filipino groups downplay Sinophobia over earthquake aid in Philippines

The community is drawing attention partly due to the South China Sea row and spying cases involving Chinese nationals in the Philippines.

The Philippines

Deadly Philippines quake permanently alters Mindanao coastline

The tectonic forces that caused last week’s 7.8-magnitude quake also thrust chunks of the island’s coastline about two metres upwards.

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A fishing boat is stranded after the seabed is thrust upwards by the June 8 earthquake in the Philippines. Photo: AFP
The Philippines

‘Sorry, grandma’: Filipino family apologises after woman left alone during quake

The elderly woman was seen clinging to a table as relatives fled the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Mindanao on June 8.

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CCTV camera from a home in the Philippines showing the moments before and after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck on June 8. Photo: Facebook / Jonard Pacres Abrasado
The Philippines

‘We’re still not ready’: why buildings fell in a survivable Philippine quake

As politicians stall on updating a 50-year-old building code, experts warn the devastation in Mindanao is just a preview of a worse disaster.

Indonesia

Panicked residents flee as strong earthquake hits Indonesia’s Sulawesi

Many Sulawesi residents are haunted by the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated Palu in 2018, setting off a three-metre-high tsunami.

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