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The GBA rescuer in Venezuela: "It looked like a war zone"

An Argentine rescuer from the NGO CEPA recounts his experience assisting in Venezuela after a double earthquake in June, describing the devastation as resembling a war zone.

Tracked question

Is international humanitarian aid actually reaching the victims? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: humanitarian aid

What would settle it: Independent (OCHA/Red Cross) confirmation of distribution reaching a verified number of people, not just pledges.

Evidence state: emergingas of Sep 11, 2026changed from insufficient → emergingnot yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Nahuel Cristiano, a rescuer from Argentine NGO CEPA, volunteered in Venezuela after a double earthquake on June 24.

He worked in Tanaguarena, La Guaira state, focusing on the OPP 25 building, which suffered catastrophic collapses.

During his first 8-day trip, his team recovered 74 bodies; a second 7-day trip recovered 67 more, totaling 141 bodies.

A notable case involved helping a grandfather named Pablo find his granddaughter; the body was recovered on the second trip.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-25 — 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.