Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Germania Rodriguez Paleo, American-Venezuelan journalist and commentator, former US chief reporter for the Daily Mail. She offers a forceful political interpretation of Venezuela's earthquake disaster through the lens of institutional collapse and democratic illegitimacy. Rodriguez Paleo argues that while the earthquake itself was a natural event, the scale of the resulting humanitarian catastrophe was profoundly shaped by decades of political decay.
Venezuela deadly earthquake: 'Countless lives lost that in a normal country would have been rescued'
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