The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, has been injured after being hit by a falling tree during the passage of Hurricane ‘Beryl’ when she was traveling through the coastal state of Sucre to supervise the work of the emergency services due to the damage. caused by the meteorological phenomenon.
The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed the information during a political event in which he indicated that Rodríguez “had an accident” when several trees fell and one of them “fell on top of him”: “She was badly hit, but she is very conscious and strong,” he declared.
In addition, he has indicated that the absence of his campaign manager, Jorge Rodríguez, who is also the president of the National Assembly and brother of the vice president, was due to the fact that he had moved to Sucre to verify the state of health. of the. However, they have not provided details on how she is doing.
Hours before, the ‘number two’ of the Venezuelan Government had indicated through her social networks that she was heading to Sucre along with a commission of ministers “to immediately attend to the families affected after the rains caused by the passage of the hurricane ‘Beryl’ in the Caribbean Sea”.
