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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tom Phillips in Caracas

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

People line up to receive assistance at shelter
People line up to receive assistance at a shelter run by the UN in Catia La Mar. Photograph: Leonardo Fernández Viloria/Reuters

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 Nicolás 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 Chávez.

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