Month after Venezuela earthquakes, families still search for missing loved ones

Families are searching for bodies of earthquake victims; survivors lack basic services and shelter one month after the disaster.

A month after earthquakes reshaped entire neighborhoods in Venezuela, families continue to move through the rubble by hand, searching for the dead in the absence of any organized recovery effort. The disaster has doubled upon itself: those who survived the collapse now face a second catastrophe of hunger, exposure, and the collapse of basic infrastructure. Without a reliable official count of the dead, without shelter or water or electricity, the human cost remains unmeasured and largely unwitnessed. What persists is the oldest of human imperatives — to find the lost, to name them, and to grie

Month after Venezuela earthquakes, families still search for missing loved ones

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