President declares that he received the news of the earthquakes “with great concern and consternation”
The president of Brazil, (PT), said he had called Itamaraty to evaluate possible assistance measures for Venezuela after those that hit the country on Wednesday (June 24, 2026) and. The official report does not yet include possible victims in La Guaira, a coastal state neighboring Caracas and identified by the Venezuelan government as the most affected region.
In a publication on X, the president (PT) received the news “with great concern and consternation”. He stated that he instructed the MRE (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) to evaluate, with the Brazilian Embassy in Caracas, the situation in the country and the assistance measures that the Brazilian government could adopt.
Lula declared support for the government of the interim president, (PSUV, left), “in the recovery of affected areas of this sister country”.
The earthquakes had magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 and hit the central region of Venezuela less than 1 minute apart. Delcy said that La Guaira has “dozens of collapsed buildings” and classified the State as “disaster zone”. The Venezuelan government suspended classes and non-essential public service activities and reported that it had made hotels and shelters available to people who lost their homes or had their properties compromised by the earthquakes.
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