Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Wood­en pal­lets for mat­tress­es, med­ical sup­plies, wa­ter pu­rifi­ca­tion plants, heavy ma­chin­ery to search through rub­ble and body bags are among the lat­est ur­gent re­quests from Venezue­lan au­thor­i­ties as the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis deep­ens in the wake of last Wednes­day’s dev­as­tat­ing twin earth­quakes.

The rare 7.2 and 7.5 mag­ni­tude earth­quakes shat­tered north­west­ern Venezuela, com­pound­ing the cri­sis in the al­ready em­bat­tled coun­try.