nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20260703-190705-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260703s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20260703-190705-0 doi eng 342 23 Jiménez, Maryhen Author aut Venezuela After the Earthquakes - A Fragile State Exposed, an Opposition Tested Jiménez, Maryhen Verfassungsblog 2026-07-03 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On June 24, 2026, two earthquakes struck Venezuela with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5. As of 2 July, the official death toll has climbed past 2,295, and more than 38,600 people remain unaccounted for. Having lived through the disaster in Caracas and seeing people desperately crying for help, only reinforces our own empirical understanding of a state in decline. Democracy depends on social trust and a functioning state with administrative capacities. Within hours, what the earthquakes revealed was the extent to which those foundations have eroded in Venezuela. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarianism Crisis State Capacity United States Venezuela Venezuela disaster relief (DE-588)4062512-6 gnd Venezuela de Alba, Mariano Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/venezuela-after-the-earthquakes/ raw object