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Venezuelans clean streets of La Guaira after sismos to help reduce pollution

Volunteers from the Fundación Sonrisa de Ángel, led by Yarlín Salazar, organized a cleanup in La Guaira on August 9 to reduce pollution after the June 24 earthquakes.

Cleanup organized by Fundación Sonrisa de Ángel in La Guaira on August 9, 2020.

Yarlín Salazar traveled from Carabobo to lead the fifth cleanup jornada.

210 volunteers from Valencia, Maracay, and Caracas participated.

Cleanup focused on areas like Playa El Yate in Caraballeda, affected by earthquakes.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Reviewed and approved by a human editor on 2026-08-12. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.