CARACAS.– The big ones buildings multi-family homes of social interest in the state of La Guaira Venezuelawhich were built within the framework of the Mission Dwelling of Hugo Chavez throughout the country, they fell like “sand castles” by the two forts earthquakes that occurred on Wednesday, June 24, in the afternoon, according to international reports.
The buildings located in the Caraballeda and Catia La Mar sectors, one of the most devastated areas of the central coast, did not resist the intense earthquake movements, nor did other residential complexes in those now devastated areas.
The difference is that the construction of buildings did not have adequate materials, but rather of low quality and not governed by the anti-seismic standards mandatory since the last earthquake in 1967, according to the warning from engineers and specialists cited by a Spanish newspaper. Plus, they have anime.
“I want to congratulate all the workers who are building this city here in Catia La Mar,” said Chávez in the place that now looks destroyed by the earthquakes, after exalting an agreement with Turkey.
Housing Mission, covered by corruption
The Housing Mission that built structures with a social purpose was one of the Chavismo projects in which the Colombian businessman, Alex Saab, Maduro’s financial operator and prosecuted by the US justice system, participated in 2011 as a contractor, through his company Fondo Global de Comunicación, in partnership with the also Colombian Álvaro Pulido Vargas, according to information.
The project was the result of an agreement between Venezuela and Belarus for which Aleksandr Lukashenko’s government received at least $120 million in mid-2011, but it was later paralyzed.
Still in 2014, two years after the work began, the project remained covered by apathy and corruption, the organization Transparencia Venezuela then warned after carrying out a thorough investigation.
A project on the ground
“There are 193 buildings in Hugo Chávez, of which only three have remained standing. All of them have collapsed with the earthquake,” according to reports from one of the occupants of those homes cited by the Spanish media, who has been left homeless.
At least two of the five structures that are part of the Housing Mission complex collapsed
Also in Catia la Mar, at the other end of La Guaira, at some distance from Caraballeda is the housing complex called Hugo Chávez in which 7,000 people lived, and it would also have suffered serious damage.
With this, the occupants of the homes of between 71 to 82 square meters in the Mission buildings have died while others are waiting for relief teams to be able to rescue relatives alive, according to the report.
