Carlos Valdés
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AP investigation: Warnings ignored as Venezuela coastal towers faced quake forces they couldn’t take
CARABALLEDA, Venezuela | Scientists had warned the government not to build along Venezuela’s coastal strip of La Guaira. The area’s seaside Caribbean communities, not far from Caracas, were near a major fault line and a mountain range that had unleashed repeated, destructive natural disasters. The soil was poor, a type of silt that would only […]