The situation in Venezuela is quite grim and gets worse with each passing day. I think the death toll is approximately 2,295, with over 11,000 injured, and tens of thousands still missing. About 58,000 structures were damaged. Over 15,000 are now homeless, and the country is facing a medical crisis worse than anything it's ever seen. There is a shortage of, well, everything — supplies, beds, doctors, nurses — and people are sick, injured, in need of surgery, fighting off infections, developing breathing problems from the dust, etc.
I can't stop thinking about the rescue workers — from the United States, El Salvador, Chile, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, and other countries. I've watched videos of them pulling adults, children, babies, and even pets from the rubble. I've watched them make sure those who are located but hard to get to receive hydration. I've watched them break down because it's all too much.
I've watched videos of workers unloading coffin after coffin from airplanes. The United Nations sent 10,000 body bags, and another organization, I forget the name, sent 3,000. It's possible it won't be enough. There isn't enough morgue space either. I've seen graphic videos of bodies and body parts stacked up under tents as workers do what they can to preserve them for their families, but the highs in Caracas are in the eighties, and it's been a week since many of them have died. God bless the people who are stepping up to help. It will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Warning: This video is graphic, but it gives you an idea of what's happening. The MSM isn't covering it like it should.
🇻🇪 Spanish TVE channel shows the harrowing footage that truly shows the scale of the tragedy in Venezuela
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 1, 2026
"There are not enough morgues or refrigeration chambers for all the bodies being recovered. That’s why they had to improvise this morgue inside an old silo at the port of La… pic.twitter.com/8HYzHVEVWO
A friend of mine told me she imagined it's a lot like September 11, 2021, and I had to correct her. I've heard officials and reporters on the ground who were in New York on that fateful day say it's much, much worse.
It's horrific. I don't know how anyone can look away. I had a conversation with a Venezuelan woman yesterday, and she was just beside herself. She said after nearly thirty years of fighting tyranny, now this — and we have no way to help ourselves because that ability was stolen from us.
But somehow, all of the leftists in our country who, for years, claimed they were friends of Venezuela; who put Nicolás Maduro or Hugo Chávez up on a pedestal as great leaders, befriending them and defending them while they starved, repressed, and murdered their own people; and who condemned Donald Trump for capturing poor little Maduro, don't seem to care at all about what could very well end up being one of the biggest humanitarian crises of this century.
Here's exhibit A: actor Mark Ruffalo (who has the most obnoxious voice — I'd never noticed) back in January, when he was quick to criticize Trump for illegally invading and starting a "war with Venezuela" (I must have slept through that), and seemed panicked that the United States was behaving as some sort of imperialist nation in his eyes. Meanwhile, around 90% of Venezuelans were cheering the whole thing on because the real war was between them and their "leadership."
⚠️🇺🇸| El actor ultra kirchnerista Mark Ruffalo respaldó a Venezuela desde su nacionalidad y residencia estadounidense con su patrimonio de USD 35.000.000
— Traductor 🥹💕💐 (@TraductorTeAma) January 13, 2026
Dice que Donald Trump es un delincuente y que es peor que la dictadura comunista de Nicolás Maduro.
¿Por qué no se muda a… pic.twitter.com/sQJHbsoFp8
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't heard Ruffalo speak out about the earthquake, or encourage people to donate to charities and organizations helping out on the ground, or even offer his thoughts and/or prayers. I guess he wasn't so concerned about the country after all.
The same goes for old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Back in January, he issued the following statement:
Trump’s attack on Venezuela will make the United States and the world less safe. This brazen violation of international law gives a green light to any nation on earth that may wish to attack another country to seize their resources or change their governments. This is the horrific logic of force that Putin used to justify his brutal attack on Ukraine.
Trump and his administration have often said they want to revive the Monroe Doctrine, claiming the United States has the right to dominate the affairs of the hemisphere... This is rank imperialism. It recalls the darkest chapters of U.S. interventions in Latin America, which have left a terrible legacy. It will and should be condemned by the democratic world.
Again, I must have slept through the "attack on Venezuela." The only ones attacking Venezuela were Maduro and his thugs. As I've written previously, can you imagine what would have happened if Maduro were still in power during this crisis? The majority of the international help is coming from leaders in countries that he refused to do business with, whether it's the U.S. or El Salvador. He would have turned them away, blamed them for the casualties, and allowed many, many more people to die. Again, correct me if I'm wrong, but suddenly, Sanders is silent on the topic of Venezuela when it needs support the most.
While I'm on the subject of idiotic politicians, remember when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went all the way to Europe earlier this year to talk about how we can't "engage in acts of war" just because a nation is "below the equator"? Yes, she was talking about Venezuela, which, I will remind you, is north of the equator.
When you find out Venezuela is north of the Equator: https://t.co/AWbMzvQQBG pic.twitter.com/sJW1TQ5745
— Prison Mitch (@Prisonmitch) February 16, 2026
She also seemed to think she was speaking on behalf of the "Global South" (I hate that term — it's so condescending) at some point during her little word salad of an interview, but where is AOC now? What is she doing to help the earthquake victims? How is she acknowledging this tragedy in a part of the world that she claims to speak for?
And then there's this chick, Sunny Hostin, who co-hosts The View. Back in January, she also had a lot to say about Venezuela and all the poor "civilians" killed when we captured Maduro. Admittedly, I don't watch The View, but I don't see anywhere that she's spoken out about the thousands of actual civilians killed now. What a heartless such and such.
These people are all disgusting. They accuse the Trump administration of using Venezuela for this and that, but their lack of speaking out now proves, to me, that they're the ones who use the Venezuelan people, just so they can spew their propaganda. They used them in January to make a political point, to pretend they cared. But all they cared about was that one of their far-left international allies was no longer in charge and, of course, getting their digs in at Trump.
I'm going to have to stop here because anything else I have to say will be deleted by my editors.
