{"id":3183,"date":"2026-06-26T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T05:04:13","slug":"earthquakes-in-venezuela-site-aims-to-help-with-painful-search-after-loved-ones-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes in Venezuela: Site aims to help with painful search after loved ones vanish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Families in anguish hoped for reunions, as search-and-rescue operations continued on Thursday night in Venezuela. Some shared their \u201cmissing persons\u201d posts online on new sites. <\/p>\n

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Juan Diego Cremi and his girlfriend, Sabrina Bolognesi, vanished under the rubble of a building in eastern Caracas during the 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cremi, 23, Bolognesi, 22, and her 20-year-old sister Sof\u00eda Bolognesi were on the sixth floor of the Petunia, building that collapsed in Chacao\u2019s Los Palos Grandes\u2019 neighborhood. Rescuers found Sof\u00eda alive. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey managed to get down to the second floor,\u201d Cremi\u2019s sister Marianella Cremi La Riva said in Spanish. \u201cWe have a lot of faith in the international rescue teams.\u201d <\/p>\n

As an activist, Juan Carlos Viloria, who was born in Caracas and lives in Colombia, knows the suffering of the Venezuelan diaspora all too well. He saw the missing-person flyers on social media. <\/p>\n

To help them and others like the Cremi and Bolognesi families find their loved ones, Viloria helped to create and run a site that had 51,893 reports of missing people, including 6,028 who had been found, as of Thursday night. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt enables survivors, hospitals, churches, and volunteers to look up and verify information about people who haven\u2019t been found,\u201d Viloria said. <\/p>\n

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The need for activism rises amid an uncertain political transition under acting interim President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, who has been cooperating with President Donald Trump after Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s capture.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez described La Guaira, a coastal area that is home to the country\u2019s main port, as a \u201cdisaster zone\u201d and asked the private sector to step up to help. <\/p>\n

Venezuelan officials reported there were at least 188 dead, and about 1,500 injured, but there was uncertainty about the tally. <\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department sent two disaster assistance response teams, and the U.S. Southern Command was also responding to support search and rescue efforts. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration allocated $100 million for the United Nations and $50 million for the International Medical Corps and the World Food Program. The U.S. Treasury also lifted some sanctions to facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid. <\/p>\n

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The list of items needed included first aid kits; emergency gear such as flashlights, heavy-duty batteries, solar phone chargers, and work gloves; and baby care, such as diapers.<\/p>\n

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