The tragedy that occurred in the town of Las Tejerías, in which there are more than 30 deaths and dozens of missing persons, could have had less painful figuresif only the regime of Nicolás Maduro had taken action on a matter of which they were aware at least 10 days in advance.
Almost 48 hours after the landslide in the aforementioned place, Nicolás Maduro admitted that his regime had known for 10 days about the situation in the place. Maduro admitted that his team knew that the soil was saturated due to the large amount of rain.
Maduro declared on state television that he warned “10 days ago in a public broadcast that he was very concerned about the way in which the soils were becoming saturated with water, the mountains were becoming saturated,” and ordered “to review all the mountains near the towns.” .
Maduro admitted that for 10 days they had known that the soil was saturated due to the large amount of rain.
Why didn’t they evacuate families in risk areas? #knitting pic.twitter.com/UVSKfPsVCk
— Gabriel Bastidas (@Gbastidas) October 10, 2022
Landslide in Las Tejerías
«The day the landslide occurred in Las Tejerías it rained in five, six hours, the same amount of rain in a month. That is why the entire mountain was brought, the trees, the rocks, everything was brought,” said Maduro, who despite having information 10 days ago about the catastrophe that could occur, the inhabitants of the risk areas were not evacuated. .
In fact, on September 27, the rains that fell in the state of Aragua caused overflows in a ravine that affected two sectors that today were practically walled off by the great landslide.
Even with this fact, the families who lived in the vicinity of the creek were not evacuated and 11 days later the unfortunate events occurred.