The Chavista regime sparked a wave of outrage this Saturday by imposing a mandatory accreditation system for entry into La Guaira, the area most devastated by the earthquakes of June 24, resulting in long lines of doctors, volunteers, and families of the affected in front of El Poliedro de Caracas amidst an emergency that has already resulted in at least 1,430 confirmed deaths.
Since June 26, the government requires anyone wishing to enter the central coast—whether medical personnel, volunteers, or relatives of victims—to obtain accreditation at El Poliedro with three requirements: a laminated identity card, an email address to receive a QR code, and, if traveling by vehicle, a circulation permit.
The minister Diosdado Cabello also announced the total restriction of access to La Guaira starting at 8:00 p.m. this Saturday, citing health risks due to decomposing bodies and traffic congestion.
The system implementation collapsed from the early hours. Journalist Robert Lobo reported from the site that by 11:00 a.m., around 600 people had already been accredited, but the lines remained massive and the wait exceeded three hours at various times throughout the day.
The technological registration system also failed repeatedly, exacerbating the chaos. Authorities divided applicants into three categories — medical personnel, cargo transporters, and volunteers with vehicles or motorcycles — in an attempt to organize the process, which, according to testimonies, proved to be insufficient.
One of the cases that circulated the most on social media was that of the citizen Abraham Mijares, who arrived at the Poliedro past midnight and was turned away. "It's 1:32 in the morning... I got to the door of the Poliedro and the guard who attended to me told me: 'No, we’ve closed, come back tomorrow at 8 in the morning.' And I asked the guy: do you work office hours?" he recounted in a video posted on Instagram that garnered over 644,000 views.
Indignation was also expressed on the Caracas-La Guaira highway, where a citizen caught on video shouted his frustration at the military: “This is a contingency, brother! This is an army, brother! That’s what an army is for!”
A reporter from Alerta News 24 described the situation starkly: "Even people trying to reach their relatives have to wait in line to request permission to go to La Guaira. It seems a bit inhumane because La Guaira needs help."
The journalist Gabriela Avendaño directly pointed to the acting president Delcy Rodríguez as responsible for the blockade and described the process as “Kafkaesque and humiliating.” “When a government turns bureaucracy into a wall against solidarity, it ceases to be incompetence… it becomes calculated cruelty,” she wrote on her Twitter account.
The context exacerbates the seriousness of the situation: the UN estimates between 50,000 and 54,000 missing persons, the Maiquetía Airport remains inoperable, and more than 250 buildings have collapsed in the state of La Guaira. Hundreds of Venezuelans have been mobilizing supplies on motorcycles spontaneously since the first days after the earthquake, before the government imposed restrictions.
"Venezuelan solidarity is ready and organized. The regime is the one holding it back," concluded Avendaño, as activists and opposition members demanded immediate accreditation, real humanitarian corridors, and transparency in managing the emergency.
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