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Relatives of deported migrants demand answers after the collapse of the custody center for the June earthquakes

Two Venezuelan mothers demanded answers from the government of Delcy Rodríguez regarding the detention of migrants deported from the US on June 24, who were housed in a hotel that collapsed during earthquakes.

Tracked question

Is the Venezuelan migration wave accelerating or reversing? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: migrantes

What would settle it: Consistent border/consular figures across two independent monitors over a month.

Evidence state: emergingas of Sep 12, 2026changed from insufficient → emergingnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Migrants deported from the US arrived on June 24 and were transferred to a hotel that collapsed during earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5.

The hotel was reportedly used to house drug-addicted individuals and was guarded by the Sebin (Bolivarian Intelligence Service).

Osvadeli Núñez, mother of Daniel Núñez, demands answers and claims her son died under the rubble; she alleges improper detention and mistreatment.

Yusmarina Meléndez, mother of Angelo Mejías, identified her son's body in a makeshift morgue in La Guaira port; she demands a list of names of deceased and survivors.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-27 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.