He fell while trying to get out. He got up on his own. And inside, among the rubble of what used to be his home in Playa Grande, La Guaira, remained his wife and his two children: one 5 years old, the other 9. 💔
This man is one of the most heartbreaking faces of the double earthquake that struck Venezuela on the night of June 24, 2025 — two consecutive quakes of magnitudes 7,2 and 7,5 that left at least 188 dead, more than 1.500 injured, and a still undetermined number of people missing under the rubble. “My family was trapped. There is nothing else to recover”, he said, visibly devastated before the cameras, with a broken voice and vacant eyes.
What hurts most is the waiting. The area of the apartment where they lived is no longer accessible, and the lack of equipment to remove rubble has those affected in total desperation. He is only asking for what any father would ask: that they move faster. That someone arrives in time. 🙏