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Ángel Cárdenas Sosa

Ángel Cárdenas Sosa

General Manager of Infrastructure for Development at CAF (Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean); Venezuelan economist specializing in infrastructure financing and public-private partnerships across the region.

Jul 13, 2026

18:13
How long do you think it will take for Venezuela to rebuild?
18:17
Well, thank you, Luisa, for having me.
18:19
That's probably a very tough question that, uh, upfront I, I'm, I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to answer it properly, but I think I can give you estimates.
18:26
And the reason why it's hard to answer at this moment is 'cause even the estimates of the damages at this point is, is still in the making.
18:37
Um, as we're speaking right now with the UN and the UN system organizations, and as we're gonna be joining efforts with other multilaterals to hopefully have a better, uh, post, uh, disaster assessment needs, and that's what normally happens when the disasters like this take place, and the UN comes in and assess what are the main needs of it.
19:00
And that could probably give you a better perspective of what is gonna be needed.
19:04
Recent estimates, I mean, the range is pretty broad.

14 MINS LATER

32:45
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