{"id":321258,"date":"2026-06-26T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321258\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:59:28","slug":"helping-venezuela-goodwill-at-el-arepazo-feeds-global-empowerment-missions-team-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321258\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Venezuela: Goodwill at El Arepazo feeds Global Empowerment Mission\u2019s team effort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM<\/p>\n

Updated:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 6:59 PM<\/p>\n

Venezuelans hoping for survivors under earthquakes\u2019 rubble say search-and-rescue tools are needed<\/p>\n

DORAL, Fla. \u2014 Andrea Brito was among the donors and volunteers who worked hard on Friday despite their pain after the devastating 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes struck Venezuela. <\/p>\n

Brito, who was doing her part to push a flow of aid from South Florida to the disaster zone, couldn\u2019t stop thinking about her uncle Roberto Brito and aunt Kairol Pi\u00f1ero, who vanished on Wednesday in La Guaira.<\/p>\n

Brito, who had a flyer with pictures of them and Norelys Marrero, hopes they may still be alive and waiting for help under the rubble. Volunteers were searching, but they lacked machinery and tools.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to find resources to help lift the concrete that collapsed on top of them,\u201d said Brito at El Arepazo in Doral. <\/p>\n

\"\"MISSING AFTER EARTHQUAKE: On Friday, in Doral, Andrea Brito holds a flyer with pictures of her uncle Roberto Brito and aunt Kairol Pi\u00f1ero, and Norelys Marrero, who vanished on Wednesday in Venezuela’s state of La Guaira. <\/p>\n

The Venezuelan restaurant, open 24 hours, seven days a week, at the Chevron gas station, at 10191 NW 58th St., was among the drop-off locations collecting aid for the local nonprofit Global Empowerment Mission. <\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t stopped crying since the earthquake,\u201d said Susanna Taddei, a Venezuelan-American LGBTQ+ rights activist who was dropping off aid at El Arepazo.<\/p>\n

Taddei said the civilians, who were trying to rescue survivors from the rubble, were in desperate need of equipment, tools, and parts such as grinding wheels to cut through metal. <\/p>\n

Related list: Drop-off locations in South Florida<\/a><\/p>\n

More HELPING VENEZUELA<\/a> coverage <\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

\"RoyRoy Ramos<\/p>\n

Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n

\"AndreaAndrea Torres<\/p>\n

The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 6:50 PM Updated:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 6:59 PM Venezuelans hoping for survivors under earthquakes\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-321258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}