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'God is punishing the politicians': anger at earthquake response grows in Venezuela

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Public anger at what many perceive as the Venezuelan government's botched response to twin earthquakes that killed nearly 4,500 people is growing, with one grieving mother caught on camera berating the son of former president Nicolas Maduro.

"I didn't lose a kitchen! I lost a daughter!" the woman, named as Damely Yaneth Diaz, can be seen shouting at congressman Nicolas Maduro Guerra in scenes captured by the Norwegian broadcaster TV2.

Bystanders cheered on the dissenter, urging the European journalists to continue filming the altercation after officials apparently tried to interrupt their work.

Public indignation and the possibility of social unrest threatens to derail Trump's efforts to control oil-rich Venezuela after January's military intervention to seize Maduro turned the South American country into what many consider a US protectorate.