Loading ...Tragic stories, the tone of voices and things like eternal hell is not enough punishment for him he’s lucky he’s already dead or is he.
A lot of eyes were involved in these multistory buildings but yet no one reported it it , was there no one at the top who wasn’t corrupt?
English version
Following catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela, devastating structural failures revealed that several high-rise buildings in the Hugo Chávez housing developments were constructed using Expanded Polystyrene (EPS, or Styrofoam) as primary void-fillers and internal framing, rather than reinforced steel and concrete.
The Controversy and Structural Failures
Public outrage and videos from first responders emerged after the earthquakes, showing heavily damaged and collapsed multi-story buildings. Survivors and structural inspectors discovered that the collapsed structures were built using foam and thin aluminum sheets instead of the required heavy-duty steel. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The Misión Vivienda Program
These buildings were part of the Gran Misión Vivienda Venezuela (Great Venezuela Housing Mission), a massive state-led public housing initiative launched under the late President Hugo Chávez. Many of these specific units were built through joint government projects with international partners, including Turkish firms (such as Suma) and the controversial contractor Alex Saab. Critics and whistleblowers highlighted that while the housing developments were heavily publicized and funded with concrete-grade budgets, the actual materials used were cheap, lightweight, and highly vulnerable to seismic activity. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Legitimate Construction vs. Unsafe Practices
While the use of block-molded foam (like ICF – Insulating Concrete Forms) or foam-core panels is standard and legitimate in specific seismic engineering applications, the structural core must still rely on a supportive grid of reinforced concrete and rebar. In the case of the Venezuelan housing projects, inspectors and engineers reported a dangerous lack of foundational load-bearing materials, leading to the catastrophic collapses of multi-story buildings. [1, 2]
For a look at the social and political reactions surrounding these discoveries in the aftermath of the quakes: