Images circulating on social media depict cars being carried away by floodwaters, buildings and businesses inundated with mud, and roads blocked by boulders from mudslides. Merida Governor Ramon Guevara confirmed that 11 people lost their lives in Tovar and two children perished in Antonio Pinto Salinas. Guevara expressed his sorrow over the situation in a video posted on Twitter, explaining that power outages occurred due to water reaching transformers. The affected area is an important agricultural region that supplies food to other regions of the country.