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Aid groups are warning that Venezuela's healthcare system is at its breaking point nearly a week after two powerful earthquakes hit the South American country. Damaged hospitals are overwhelmed and conditions in the disaster zone are worsening. The government death toll has surpassed 1,700, with more bodies being found. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding, with thousands displaced and living in unsanitary conditions.

A decade after the PROMESA Act brought direct federal oversight to the U.S. territory during a fiscal crisis, debt has been slashed. But frustrations are high.

On June 24, 146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.

Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble. A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours after Wednesday's earthquakes.

Visiting Venezuelan earthquake aid work in Doral, Republican Miami Congresswoman Mar铆a Elvira Salazar blasted the regime 鈥� and urged President Trump to halt Venezuelan deportations amid the deadly catastrophe.

South Florida journalist Maria Alesia Sosa is used to telling difficult stories 鈥� including the Surfside tragedy. She was visiting family in her home country of Venezuela when she experienced firsthand two devastating earthquakes. "It's a d茅j脿 vu of the rubble, of the victims, of desperate families yelling and screaming trying to find survivors, and I just can't believe this is happening again," she told SA国际传谋.

A strong aftershock has jolted Venezuela following last week's devastating earthquakes. The tremor struck early Monday near Caraballeda on the Caribbean coast, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale. Colombia's geological survey reported it as 5.1.

An estimated 1.8 million people, including 680,000 children, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance after two devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, UNICEF reported this weekend.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue announced Friday that its Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force One was activated by the U.S. State Department. The 80-person Type I Task Force, which includes six specialized canine teams, left from Homestead on Friday night.

At the Global Empowerment Mission warehouse, hundreds of volunteers hurried past each other to pack emergency supplies for families affected by the powerful earthquakes that devastated Venezuela earlier this week. 鈥淲e need more hands," said one volunteer.