This may be the study:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230430.2020.1...

Quote from the abstract:

> In Venezuela, glacial area has decreased 98 percent between 1952 and 2019 (from 2.317 km2 to 0.046 km2).

So it appears you are correct. I looked it up because I was skeptical of your skepticism - Washington state is at a very different latitude, but at 1/5 the area of Venezuela has ~450 sq km of glaciers. Mt Rainier alone has 90 sq km.

https://glaciers.us/glaciers.research.pdx.edu/Glaciers-Washi...

There’s no arguing against extreme glacial retreat (I started this by fact-checking your downplay), but this article does feel pretty sensational about a place that didn’t really have glaciers to begin with.