LA GUAIRA (Venezuela), July 8 — As deadly earthquakes reduced much of Venezuela’s Caribbean coast to rubble, one modest apartment block remained standing — and its builders...

Los vecinos, los expertos en construcción y los sismólogos llevaban años advirtiendo de que las viviendas sociales de Venezuela serían vulnerables ante un desastre natural.

Elias Eduardo Chayeb wept for joy on seeing that the apartment building he helped his father construct in La Guaira was still standing, a sentinel in a sea of destruction caused…