{"id":13049,"date":"2026-06-26T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13049"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:07:00","slug":"venezuela-death-toll-soars-to-589-50000-people-are-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13049","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela: Death toll soars to 589 \u2014 50,000 people are missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of <b>589 <\/b>has <b>deaths <\/b>from the double earthquake that struck <b>Venezuela <\/b>on Wednesday, said the country\u2019s acting president <b>Delcy Rodr\u00edguez<\/b>, providing the latest provisional toll from the <b>tragedy<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>number of  <\/b>injured <b>stands at <b>2,980.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A previous <b>estimate <\/b>by authorities put the death toll at <b>235.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The government estimates that hundreds of people remain<b> trapped and missing,<\/b> in addition to 589 confirmed deaths and<b> 2,980 injured<\/b>. A website created to receive reports of people who remain missing had<b> 50,000 entries<\/b> as of this morning.<\/p>\n<p><b>Rodr\u00edguez <\/b>also stated that the government has decided to deploy the military to the state of La Guaira.<\/p>\n<p>According to <b>a forecast <\/b>by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the death toll may exceed <b>10,000.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams from at least <b>17 countries<\/b> are deploying to <b>Venezuela <\/b>to participate in the search for survivors following the two powerful earthquakes that devastated the country, the <b>UN<\/b> announced today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from the double earthquake that struck Venezuela on Wednesday has risen to 589, the country\u2019s acting president said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}