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Searching for Closure: Venezuela Families Refuse to Give up After Quakes

Summary by Al Jazeera
Weeks after earthquakes, relatives are still searching for bodies of loved ones who disappeared beneath the rubble.

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For 26 days, 17-year-old Winder Delfín dug up the rubble of the building where he lived in La Guaira, Venezuela, in search of his mother, grandmother and younger brother. Next to his 15-year-old brother Deivi, father and stepfather, the teenager faced intense heat, dust and unstable structures until he located the bodies of the buried relatives after two earthquakes that devastated the region. Hunting that killed 540 deer and boars in Portugal h…

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Almost a month after the earthquakes that shook the center-north of Venezuela, dozens of families in La Guaira continue to roam hospitals, morgues and tear away debris in search of their loved ones, in the absence of official figures of missing persons and a mechanism that centralizes the information to facilitate the process. One of these cases is by Franyelis Castrejón, according to Infobae she travels daily to hospitals and morgues of La Guai…

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Caraota Digital broke the news on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
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