Spotless uniforms, stalled cranes: Inside Venezuelas faltering quake rescue effort
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Angélica Mundrain wants the bodies of her son, niece and nephew to be pulled from the rubble of her flattened beachfront apartment. She has spent every minute of the past six days waiting for the heavy machinery needed to remove the slabs of concrete and twisted metal that trapped them. So have other Venezuelan earthquake survivors. They, like others across the northern state of La Guaira, have the same question: Who is in charge? Venezuela's self-described which...
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