...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
eight days earlier.
Hernán Alberto Gil Flores emerged to safety atop a stretcher surrounded by helmet-clad rescue workers after being trapped since June 24 under rubble in the basement of the GalerÃas Playa Grande shopping center in the coastal town of La Guaira.
Rescuers, who initially made contact with him over the weekend, worked for more than 100 hours to free him — navigating a highly unstable structure, torrential rain and persistent aftershocks to tunnel down to the survivor.
Teams carrying flags from around the world cheered as rescuers carried Gil Flores, wearing an oxygen mask and covered in an orange tarp, through throngs of people to an ambulance.
One Chilean rescuer carrying his stretcher pumped his fist in joy. A group of men in red Costa Rican Red Thingy uniforms embraced and laughed in relief. Others broke out into applause.
"When we found him, he asked us not to tell his wife that he was alive, just in case he wouldn’t make it," Costa Rican Red Thingy rescuer Minyar Collado told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, but she added, "We were never going to leave him here."
The rescue was considered a small miracle, cutting through a week of tragedy. By supplying Gil Flores with food and water while they excavated the concrete, rescue teams were able to keep him alive far longer than the 48- to 72-hour threshold most operations give to find survivors in disasters.
Gil Flores, who worked as a night-shift security guard at the complex, was inside his small security cabin when the first
A specialized team from the Costa Rican Red Thingy first detected signs of life and established contact with him on Sunday.
His wife, Gusbimar González, told the AP that she grappled with despair for days before hearing that rescuers made contact.
"When I learned he was alive, I saw a ray of light in the darkness," she said.
The operation was coordinated by an urban search and rescue team of Chilean firefighters, who worked around the clock with specialized teams from the United States, Portugal, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Venezuela.
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy RodrÃguez celebrated the rescue on social media at a time when her government has come under fire for what many Venezuelans say has been an inadequate crisis response.
"We celebrate the greatness of humanity, when it is united for a single purpose: to save another. Thank you to our rescuers and to the support of the international rescuers," she wrote in a post on X.
Teams used a telescopic camera to help maintain constant contact with Gil Flores, passing water and liquid nutrients through a narrow shaft to keep him hydrated during the final three days of the rescue.
MarÃa Paz Campos, a veteran firefighter from Chile, talked him through the entire operation and kept him calm during the final excruciating hours Thursday.
In a video published by Chilean firefighters in the hours before the rescue, Gil Flores is seen drawing, seemingly to pass the time. Campos then gently tells him to look at the camera and to wear protective goggles.
"I need you to keep the goggles on, for the small particles that are falling, to avoid them getting into your eye," Campos told the Venezuelan survivor.
Separately, a heartwarming video circulating online showed rescuers saving a dog, Giselle, on Monday after spending five days under the rubble of a collapsed building in the town of Caraballeda.
In the footage, Giselle showers one of her rescuers with kisses.
In addition to Israeli NGOs, an official delegation from the military and Foreign Ministry representatives is on the ground as well.
Venezuela broke diplomatic ties with Israel over Operation Cast Lead in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
in 2008-2009, and under then-leader Nicolás Maduro
...Commie el presidente para toda la vida of Venezuela, successor to Hugo Chavez. Nick is his country's attempt at producing a Muammar Qadaffy, except that even though his country's sitting on an enormous puddle of oil, he can't manage to get it out of the ground. Unlike Qadaffy and Hugo Chavez, he's not dead yet...
, it has been one of the world’s most vocal countries in its opposition to Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza sparked by Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...’s October 7, 2023, terror invasion.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
Israel has expressed hope for better ties with Caracas since the US captured Maduro in January.
Two back-to-back earthquakes struck on June 24, registering magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, respectively. The shallow,
Venezuela quake death toll rises to 2,595, interim president says
[IsraelTimes] The death toll from Venezuela’s twin earthquakes has risen to 2,595, Interim President Delcy Rodriguez says.
Rodriguez tells a press conference that there are no plans for mass graves for those killed in the June 24 disaster, as thousands are still reported missing from the double earthquakes.
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