VENEZUELA EARTHQUAKE: Caracas Merchants Fight to Rebuild After Catastrophic Twin Earthquakes!

By Times Now World

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Local merchants and small-business owners across the capital’s upscale Los Palos Grandes neighborhood are mounting a desperate, capital-starved campaign to rebuild their livelihoods after a catastrophic pair of twin earthquakes flattened entire city districts. The unprecedented seismic event, featuring back-to-back magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 that struck a mere 39 seconds apart on June 24, has completely redefined the local landscape, claiming at least 4,118 lives, injuring more than 16,740 others, and causing structural damage or outright collapse to over 1,000 properties nationwide. Entrepreneurs in Chacao’s normally bustling gastronomic hub recounted scenes of absolute terror as structural foundations split in half and concrete multi-story high-rises—including the nearby Petunia residential complex—literally dissolved at their feet. Despite facing depleted financial reserves, broken cold-storage inventory, and an intermittent municipal electricity grid, resilient survivors refuse to a

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