Venezuela landslide
- Created by: Holl van Driel
- Created on: 14-01-15 12:09
Venezuela landslide |
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Overall summaryResponse - immediate search and rescue operation to find survivors in mudflows, landslides and buildings. Provide emergancy relief (accommodation, water puritiation tablets, food and medicines. Relief operation severely hindered by poor state of infastructure. Government long term plan to encourage people to move away from over-crowded coast to in land. Government Plans - Venezuelan government announced plans to restore Venezuela's northern coastal region by re-building thousands of homes, expanding the country's main airport and constructing canals to direct rivers away from communities. Parts of Vargas quickly rebuilt. Cities of Maiquetia, homes to the countrys main airport and La Guaira, the largest port rebuilt, then smaller towns, which had a tourist function. Towns which were swept out to sea will not be rebuilt. The land they occupied will be turned into parks, bathing resorts or outdoor facilities. |
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