Venezuelan Family's Three-Week Journey to Bring Daughter's Body Home

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,” s...

By Tom Phillips in El Junquito. Photographs by Manu Quintero