Key Venezuela port opens with US aid, as burials begin
Forensic personnel gather under tents during body identification operations at a makeshift morgue in the port of La Guaira, La Guaira State, Venezuela on June 29, 2026, days after twin earthquakes struck the country on June 24. (AFP)
The United States military repaired and reopened a key seaport in the hardest hit area of Venezuela on June 29, as the country began burying more than 1,700 victims of twin earthquakes that have left tens of thousands still missing.
Five days after powerful back-to-back quakes flattened entire neighborhoods, the task of recovering the dead loomed large and hopes of finding survivors faded.
By the latest official count, some 1,700 are dead and 5,000 are injured, with no governmental word on the number missing. Other estimates place these in the tens of thousands.
