The Weight of the News from Venezuela

I had heard the news about the earthquakes in Venezuela earlier today, but I’d only seen the text headlines and hadn’t looked closely at the reports. That was until I scrolled through Instagram and saw the devastating footage: collapsed buildings, people filming the destruction, and a voice off-camera screaming for his mother toward the rubble.

In another video, a young man sat atop his home, which had been reduced to a pile of ruins. The video was shot in HDR…
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