June 19 - 25, 2026 Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela causing widespread damage, a rising death toll and thousands injured. Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia’s next president after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the presidential runoff election. A woman walks past a quake-damaged building in La Guaira, Venezuela, June 25, 2026, a day after twin earthquakes struck the country.