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Venezuela's earthquake response was not built by the state or the UN — it was assembled in three hours by diaspora coders with Claude and Replit, and that inversion is the real story

The prevailing story about AI in a disaster zone is that it belongs to governments and large NGOs: satellite imagery pipelines at FEMA, damage models at the World Bank, logistics dashboards at the UN. When twin earthquakes reportedly ripped through northern Venezuela last month, that story broke.