{"id":55373,"date":"2026-06-26T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-most-venezuelan-city-in-the-us-rallies-to-help-after-quakes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:16:16","slug":"watch-most-venezuelan-city-in-the-us-rallies-to-help-after-quakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-most-venezuelan-city-in-the-us-rallies-to-help-after-quakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Most Venezuelan city in the US rallies to help after quakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Members of the Venezuelan diaspora gathered in Doral in Florida to collect aid to be sent to the country after it was hit by two earthquakes on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sim\u00f3n Pe\u00f1a donated drinking water as he continues to wait for news of missing loved ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to help as much as possible and do whatever little we can from here,&#8221; he told BBC Mundo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 40% of Doral&#8217;s residents are of Venezuelan origin, the largest concentration in the US. Many fled economic troubles and insecurity in their country after Maduro took office in 2013, while others fled that of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Video produced by Jose Rodero and Ayel\u00e9n Oliva.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/c62151r0k68o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Venezuelan diaspora gathered in Doral in Florida to collect aid to be sent to the country after it was hit by two earthquakes on Wednesday. Sim\u00f3n Pe\u00f1a donated drinking water as he continues to wait for news of missing loved ones. &#8220;I want to help as much as possible and do whatever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55375,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55373\/revisions\/55375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}