Toddler Pulled Alive From Rubble Six Days After Venezuela Quakes
A two-year-old boy was rescued from a collapsed building on Wednesday, six days after the twin earthquakes that killed at least 589 people in Venezuela — a rare moment of relief in a recovery effort grinding towards its close. Young survivors are running several of the shelters housing the displaced, and international aid continues to flow through regional channels led by Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. Families of deportees flown in from the United States hours before the quakes struck are still searching for relatives.
Rescues this long after a collapse are exceptional — survival past the 72-hour window usually depends on air pockets and access to water, which is why search phases are normally wound down within a week. The political dimension remains as striking as the humanitarian one: aid has kept moving into a heavily sanctioned country without political conditions attached, an arrangement that has now held for more than a week. Watch whether that cooperation outlasts the emergency phase, and whether US deportation flights resume while the recovery continues.