Venezuelan families rage at slow earthquake rescue response as death toll mounts

At least 1,700 people killed in twin earthquakes; hundreds more feared dead under rubble; families separated and searching for missing loved ones including children.

Along Venezuela's battered coastline, twin earthquakes have claimed at least 1,700 lives and exposed a wound older than the rubble itself — the fragile compact between a government and its people in moments of extremity. Families in La Guaira waited nearly two days before official rescuers arrived, and in that silence, neighbors became first responders, digging with bare hands and crowbars through the wreckage of collapsed high-rises. The disaster has become two stories at once: the geological catastrophe that struck on a Wednesday, and the human one that unfolded in the days that followed, as

Venezuelan families rage at slow earthquake rescue response as death toll mounts

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