President in charge: 80% of the buildings that collapsed due to the earthquakes are privately developed

Published at: 02/07/2026 09:33 PM

The president in charge of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, highlighted that 80% of the buildings that collapsed in the state of La Guaira due to the two earthquakes that occurred last Wednesday, June 24, are private developments

“I'm not going to blame either those in social development or the private sector at this time, because in truth there was a double earthquake and it was the one with the greatest intensity and severity due to the short space of time elapsed between them, which was only 38 seconds. Let's imagine what impact,” he said.

At the Miraflores Palace, during a press conference with international media, to provide an overview of the earthquakes last Wednesday, June 24.

“It is necessary to remember that it is a state with a life of its own, but also for vacationing and that day a lot of people had come down to the beach because it was a holiday,” he said.

The president in charge said that “if something fortunate can be said, it is that it happened more towards the coastal fault and not towards the mountains.”

In this regard, he explained that “many of the estimates made by international organizations were because they thought that houses in neighborhoods in popular areas that are in the mountains had also collapsed.”

Mazo News Team