Watching the Venezuelan earthquake is like watching the 1995 Kobe earthquake: buildings designed to be earthquake proof stood, buildings not designed to be earthquake proof collapsed.
In Kobe, they learned the hard way how highway construction had taken shortcuts, with elevated throughways collapsing when their poles were found to have been built with inferior materials. That’s going to almost certainly be the case in Venezuela.
I can understand Machado wanting to be there during the crisis; it is her country after all, she isn’t a Karen Bass who doesn’t mind being halfway around the world while her city burns to the ground. Trusting Trump in this case is probably the best, but I understand her desire to be with her people.
They've already discovered that a lot of the buildings put up under a construction push by Chavez was just Styrofoam with a thin concrete coating.