Three weeks have passed since two powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, but for hundreds of grieving families across the hard-hit coastal region of La Guaira, the agonizing search for missing loved ones buried beneath collapsed buildings remains far from over. The official death toll from the June 24 quakes – registering magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 respectively – has already climbed past 5,000, leaving thousands more families trapped in a devastating limbo between confirmed loss and unresolved uncertainty.