# Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, has once again defended her government’s handling of last month’s deadly twin earthquakes, accusing critics of seeking to stir hatred against the state. Many Venezuelans have accused the government of chronic mismanagement and corruption, and an inadequate response to the disaster. Three-thousand-342 people have been killed after two earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 respectively struck the country. Sixteen-thousand-470 people have been injured, and 17-thousand-345 left homeless. Rodríguez has vowed the country will not descend into social unrest.
Venezuela’s interim president defends deadly earthquake response