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Two Young Brothers and Their Search for Venezuela’s Dead
The New York Times • • world
Key Points:
- Seventeen-year-old Winder Delfín, along with his family, has been digging through rubble for 25 days following devastating earthquakes in Venezuela's La Guaira state, searching for missing loved ones.
- The search is grueling and hazardous, involving breaking concrete and rebar amid heat, dust, and exhaustion, with many stronger individuals having collapsed during the effort.
- Thousands of survivors continue to comb through debris daily, driven by the urgent need to recover bodies of family and friends lost in the disaster.
- Official death toll stands at 5,208, but government estimates suggest it could be as high as 10,000, highlighting the scale of the tragedy.
- Searchers endure harsh conditions, including bleeding hands, dust-filled lungs, minimal food, and exhaustion, often sleeping on the rubble as they persist in their efforts.
