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...Venezuela: A powerful earthquake ripped through northeastern Venezuela Wednesday afternoon, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 162. The quake is considered Venezuela's worst in 30 years, registering 5.5 on the Richter scale. The earthquake hit at 3:25 p.m. Venezuela time, demolishing one building in Cumana (about 340 miles east of Caracas) where about 30 people remain trapped in the rubble. In Cariaco, about 30 miles east of Cumana, 26 students and teachers died after the town's school was demolished. Rescue workers were trying to free approximately 30 people buried in the debris. The upheaval...
...Sucre. He fought in six great battles of the war of liberation from Spain, and once saved the life of General Simon Bolivar, who thereupon dubbed Garcia "Valentin Valiente" (Valentin the Brave). When Garcia died in 1856, he was buried in the parish cemetery of the town of Cumana. But until last week, Valentin the Brave, much as he was honored in Sucre,* never won a similar reverence from the rest of Venezuela...
...resolution of the federal Senate pronounced Garcia an "Illustrious Hero of the War of Independence" and decreed that his remains be transferred from the cemetery to the Pantheon of Heroes in Caracas, resting place of Bolivar and the rest of Venezuela's great. In preparation, the people of Cumana put the bones in a small, carved mahogany urn. But it took five years for officials in Caracas to dispatch the warship Miranda to Cumana to get the urn, and then the Miranda was diverted instead to another part of the country to quell a rebellion. Sucre's citizens...
...down to Point Cumana...
...Point Cumana is a bathing beach near Port-of-Spain where cottages may be rented...