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The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, She was injured following a tree fell on him following the strong winds in the middle of the passage of huracán Beryl, which caused havoc and destruction in that country and the Caribbean.
The vice of Nicolas Maduro She was driving through the coastal state of Sucre to oversee emergency response efforts following damage caused by Hurricane Beryl when a tree fell and hit her hard.
Destruction in Sucre, Venezuela.
The Venezuelan president was the one who confirmed the information this Wednesday during a political event. There, Maduro said that Rodriguez “had an accident”: “I was attending to the people. They stopped under a mamón tree and a very strong gale hit, knocking down several trees and one of the trees fell on top of him. She was badly hit, she is conscious, she is strong, He just wrote to me, sends you greetings. While working in Comanacoa, a missile hit him.”
He also noted that the absence of his campaign manager, Jorge Rodriguez, who is also the president of the National Assembly and brother of the vice president, was due to the fact that he had moved to Sucre to accompany his sister. However, They have not provided details on how he is doing.
Hours earlier, the official had indicated through her social networks that she was heading to Sucre with a commission of ministers “to immediately assist the affected families following the rains caused by Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean Sea.”
At least seven people have died in the Caribbean region due to the passage of Hurricane Beryl, which on Monday reached Category 5 – potentially catastrophic – becoming the strongest hurricane in the history of the Atlantic in the month of June, and will reach the coasts of Jamaica on Wednesday morning.
A fisherman looks at fishing vessels damaged by Hurricane Beryl at the Bridgetown Fisheries in Barbados, Monday, July 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)Ricardo Mazalan – AP
Maduro has confirmed at least three dead in the coastal state of Sucre, Venezuelan newspaper Efecto Coyuco reported, the same area where the country’s vice president was injured.
The storm has caused landslides, the destruction of houses and numerous power and communication line outages.
Beryl, which reached Category 5 status on Monday, according to the US National Hurricane Center, is the earliest hurricane of this magnitude since 1966 and the first of the 2024 Atlantic season.
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