5 published verifications about Venezuela Venezuela ×
“Trinidad and Tobago was left without water after an earthquake in Venezuela.”
The evidence does not support the claim that Trinidad and Tobago was left without water after an earthquake in Venezuela. Credible reports describe a section of Trinidad’s coastline being uplifted, which left marine animals stranded out of seawater on one beach. They do not show the country lost drinking water or public water service.
“In Plaza Venezuela (Caracas, Venezuela), authorities are separating mothers from their children among people sheltering there after an earthquake.”
No credible reporting in the provided sources substantiates that authorities are separating mothers from their children at Plaza Venezuela. The strongest sources discussing family separation after the earthquakes describe it as an unintended consequence of chaotic evacuations and displacement, not a deliberate action by officials at shelters. The claim’s key specifics—intentional separation by authorities and the Plaza Venezuela location—are uncorroborated.
“Political ties between Turkey and Venezuela strengthened after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro supported Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during the July 2016 attempted coup in Turkey, and Turkey–Venezuela trade turnover reached nearly US$1 billion by 2023.”
The claim combines a well-supported political point with a materially overstated trade figure. Evidence indicates Maduro backed Erdoğan during the 2016 coup attempt and that Turkey-Venezuela ties strengthened afterward. But the strongest quantitative sources put 2023 bilateral trade closer to US$663-700 million, not 'nearly US$1 billion,' so the economic part overstates the scale.
“Venezuelan nationals died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912.”
No credible evidence supports the claim that Venezuelan nationals died in the Titanic sinking. Over a dozen independent sources drawn from official passenger manifests, British Board of Trade records, and the 1912 inquiry find zero Venezuelan nationals aboard. The sole source naming Venezuelan victims is a low-authority blog that provides no primary documentation, and one of its named individuals appears to be a misidentification of a known American survivor, Thomas Drake Martínez Cardeza.
“An iguana caused a power outage affecting the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela.”
The claim is rooted in a real April 2010 incident in which Venezuela's state electricity company, Corpoelec, blamed an iguana for a power outage in Anzoátegui — but it overstates both the certainty and the scope. No independent source verified the iguana as the actual cause; the attribution is widely characterized as political scapegoating for systemic grid failures. The documented outage affected "10 sectors," not the entire state, making the unqualified phrasing materially misleading.