Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady and National Assembly Deputy Cilia Flores on the radio program Con Maduro De Repente, May 31, 2024. Photo: Presidential Press.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reported that the rainfall disaster alert has been activated with Thursday’s arrival of the second tropical wave affecting the coast, the plains, and the western part of Venezuela.
“We are on alert because of the rains,” President Maduro said during the first episode of the radio program Con Maduro De Repente, broadcast by Radio Miraflores, on Thursday, May 30. “The second tropical wave entered today. There were heavy rains on the coast; there were rains in the Llanos, in Zulia. I was informed that there were floods in Petare [in Caracas].”
Vice President Delcy RodrĂguez announced that “the entire Disaster Risk System is activated to respond to any contingency that may arise. In this particular site in Petare, both the national government and the Caracas Governor’s Office are responding to it.”
President Maduro: ‘We Are Working as Single Entity to Respond to Rainy Season’
Regarding the weather conditions, President Maduro referred to global warming and highlighted that on Thursday, for the first time in many months, the temperature in Caracas dropped to 23°C.
“We have become accustomed to 30 degrees, 33 degrees, and even 37 degrees in Caracas,” he commented. “The heat in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea causes higher evaporation, and it has been forecast that in this hot weather, the rains could be stronger, more torrential. So we must take radical measures and remain attentive to it 24 hours a day.”
According to President Maduro, the climate crisis affecting the Earth is caused by capitalism as a system of mass consumption with no conscience for life or the planet.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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