By Pablo Urbón
Miami, US (EFE).- The Venezuelan community in the United States is caught between two urgent tasks in the aftermath of the earthquakes that struck their home country on Wednesday: locating family members with whom they have had little contact and sending aid to the hardest-hit areas.
Luciano D’Alessandro, a Venezuelan living in Miami, owns an apartment in Los Palos Grandes, one of the areas in Caracas where several buildings collapsed.
«My mother was in that apartment on the afternoon of the tragedy. Thank God she was able to get out, but what she saw and experienced was horrific, as there are people trapped under the rubble. We need a lot of help,» he said while joining efforts to collect donations to send to his country.
Two earthquakes, magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, struck the center of the country on Wednesday night, with the epicenter west of Caracas.
