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The Minister of Science and Technology of Venezuela, Gabriela Jiménez, reported this Thursday that the South American country has registered 300% more rainfall than expected during 2025, which has affected more than 7,000 families and which she attributed to the climate crisis.
At the inauguration of the World Congress in Defense of Mother Earth, which serves as a "prelude" to the COP30 climate meeting, the minister said that the Orinoco River - the third largest in the world by volume - has registered a growth, due to rainfall, that "exceeds the last 60 years".
"As a result of this increase in rainfall, of floods, which affected more than 7,000 Venezuelan families, we also see increases in the proliferation of vectors, of diseases associated with vectors, as a consequence of what is now called climate change, climate crisis, climate emergency," he added.
Jiménez maintained that this crisis is the product of "predatory capitalism destroying territories and life."
"It is necessary to assess that it is a consequence of an economic policy and an imposed civilizational model, which breaks the rationality of life," he added.
The official indicated that this Congress, which will be held between this Thursday and Friday, is to be able to "resonate" at COP30, which will take place next November in Brazil.
"We don't need green bonds, we don't need a green revolution, we need the revolution of the colors of the peoples, with their identity, with their language, with their dialects, with their poetry, with their aesthetics, with their variety, with their diversity, with their agri-food manifestations," he pointed out.
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Last August, the Vice Minister for Risk Management and Civil Protection, Juan Carlos Oti, reported that six people lost their lives after the heavy rains recorded in Venezuela.
The rains, which began at the end of June, have caused damage in a large part of western Venezuela, which includes, among others, the regions of Barinas, Táchira, Trujillo, Mérida and Portuguesa, and have also affected localities in the state of Bolívar (south, bordering Brazil) and Guárico (center).
