One Venezuelan family’s three-week journey to bring their daughter’s body home
The Guedez García family spent 18 days searching for their missing daughter in La Guaira, Venezuela, after the devastating earthquake. When her body was finally found, the family and volunteers from their village of Poblado Uno travelled back home to lay her to rest
In a mountainside cemetery high above Caracas, far from the chaos of Venezuela’s earthquake-lashed coast, a family of three huddles in the back of a pickup truck coming to terms with their loss.
“At first, it will be difficult,” says Adolfo Guedez, tears rolling down his cheeks as his eldest daughter, Carmen, hugs a wooden cremation box containing the ashes of her sister, Alexandra.
Yaritza García and her daughter, Carmen, hug after receiving the box containing the remains of Alexandra at El Junquito Cemetery on the outskirts of Caracas
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