2026年7月10日 / 美国东部时间早上6:00 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
作者：卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔韦斯（Camilo Montoya-Galvez）
卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔vez是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的移民记者，其报道曾在多个节目和平台播出，包括全国广播节目、CBS新闻24小时频道、CBSNews.com以及该机构的社交媒体账号。
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即便回到美国近一周后，委内瑞拉沿海社区拉瓜伊拉的恶臭仍让人难以忘怀。那是残骸、烟雾和死亡混合而成的令人窒息的气味。
上月下旬，一分钟内接连发生的两场地震袭击了委内瑞拉，造成了灾难性破坏，将拉瓜伊拉的整片区域夷为平地。这座曾以港口和海滩闻名的城市，在我们探访期间宛如战区。地震还造成了巨大的人员损失，数千名委内瑞拉人伤亡，据报有数万人失踪，更多人流离失所。
我们亲眼看到拉瓜伊拉的居民徒手搬运公寓楼坍塌后产生的残骸和建筑材料，许多人被困在楼内。他们与救援人员一道，不顾一切地搜寻任何生命迹象。当救援人员要求现场保持安静，以期听到被困在瓦砾下的人发出的敲击声或动静时，铁锹、风镐和其他机械发出的噪音会暂时中断。
时至今日，仍有未知数量的遗体被埋在拉瓜伊拉各处的瓦砾堆下，这里是地震破坏最为集中的区域。官方公布的死亡人数接近4000人，这一数字几乎肯定还会继续上升。联合国曾一度估计有超过5万名委内瑞拉人失踪。我们亲眼所见的搜救行动，由包括美国救援队在内的全球救援人员开展，如今已基本转为遗体回收工作。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻是首个从拉瓜伊拉发回报道的美国广播电视网，我们在6月24日地震发生两天后便开始在当地进行报道。由于委内瑞拉首都加拉加斯附近的主要机场在地震中严重受损，我们不得不先飞往巴拿马城，再从那里搭乘航班前往委内瑞拉第三大城市巴伦西亚的一座小型机场。
![拉瓜伊拉市一座倒塌的建筑。卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔vez 摄]
在为期一周的报道行程中，我们几乎每天都驱车前往拉瓜伊拉。正常情况下，从加拉加斯到这里的车程大约只需半小时。但我们第一次前往拉瓜伊拉却花了数小时，因为大量委内瑞拉民众涌入高速公路，为地震灾民运送水、食物和其他物资。我们勉强赶上了周五为《CBS晚间新闻》提交报道的截止时间。在委内瑞拉当局限制进入拉瓜伊拉后，后续的行程时间变短，也没那么混乱了。令我们意外的是，我们从未被禁止前往当地报道灾情。
拉瓜伊拉的刺鼻气味并非唯一让人难以释怀的事物。我们亲眼目睹的难以估量的人间苦难，深深烙印在我的脑海中。我们会见并采访了失去孩子、兄弟姐妹和其他亲属的委内瑞拉民众，其中包括一位在住宅楼倒塌中奇迹生还的母亲——她12岁的儿子没能逃过一劫。
在加拉加斯的一家医院外，我们看到绝望的家属在患者名单中搜寻亲人，此时一位女子正给她6岁的侄子送去汤，这名男孩此前因地震住院。他活了下来，但他的母亲，也就是该女子的姐姐，却没能生还。在拉瓜伊拉的郊区，我们采访了一名委内瑞拉消防员，他因缺乏重型机械，无法从倒塌的建筑中取出遗体，让受害者的亲属得以安葬。
在一个为地震流离失所者设立的营地中，我们遇到了一位失去了拉瓜伊拉的家园的祖母兼母亲。在她和儿子居住的帐篷里，她恳求获得帮助和一个永久的家，称自己的处境是一场“噩梦”。我们在营地中看到了数十顶帐篷，该营地设在加拉加斯的一处公共公园内，运营相对有序。
但在彻底的毁灭、大规模破坏和令人窒息的绝望之中，我们也看到了希望的微光。在帐篷营地中，我们看到孩子们在踢足球，似乎暂时忘却了迫使他们全家流离失所的悲惨处境。
![在加拉加斯一处收容地震流离失所家庭的帐篷营地内，孩子们正在踢足球。卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔vez 摄]
在拉瓜伊拉一家曾是麦当劳的餐厅外，志愿兽医们搭建了一个临时动物诊所，为在接连发生的地震中受伤或被主人遗弃的狗、猫和其他宠物提供救治。他们工具简陋，但拯救动物的决心令人钦佩，将他们的工作描述为“战地救护”。
![美国救援队“弗吉尼亚特遣部队1号”成员达斯汀·雷诺兹和他的搜救犬齐拉。卡米洛·蒙托亚-加尔vez 摄]
尽管委内瑞拉政府近几十年来一直试图诋毁美国，但我们发现委内瑞拉民众对美国的援助表示欢迎——在某些情况下，他们甚至迫切地请求美国提供帮助。地震发生大约在美军逮捕委内瑞拉总统尼古拉斯·马杜罗六个月后，当时美军将其押往美国面临刑事指控，副总统随即接任，此后该副总统与特朗普政府开展了密切合作。
美国搜救队包含了三岁的搜救犬齐拉，它是部署到委内瑞拉的23只训练有素的美国工作犬之一。我们看到它在建筑中搜寻，嗅探生命迹象，就在几天前，它还找到了被困在瓦砾下的一家三口。父亲已经遇难，但他的妻子和年幼的儿子被成功救出。
我们还看到来自数十个其他国家的救援队伍在委内瑞拉开展工作，其中既有官方代表团，也有志愿团体。我们会见了来自智利、哥斯达黎加、萨尔瓦多、法国、墨西哥、葡萄牙、越南和其他国家的救援人员。我们看到他们与拉瓜伊拉的居民并肩协作，搜寻他们的邻居和亲人。
事实上，正是由多个国家的救援队组成的队伍——主要来自萨尔瓦多、智利、哥斯达黎加、葡萄牙和美国——救出了埃尔南·吉尔·弗洛雷斯，这名保安被困在一栋建筑下方数吨重的混凝土中长达八天。
“这完全是个奇迹，”他的妻子在那栋建筑外对我们说，“这是无法解释的事情。”
![2026年7月5日，在卡蒂亚拉马尔市一栋即将倒塌的建筑废墟中被困近八天后获救的埃尔南·吉尔，目前正在加拉加斯临床医院接受治疗，其伴侣鲁贝斯马尔·冈萨雷斯陪同在侧。罗萨利·埃尔南德斯/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄]
Devastation, agony and hope: What we saw in Venezuela after the deadly earthquakes
July 10, 2026 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez
Camilo Montoya-Galvez is the Immigration Correspondent at CBS News, where his reporting is featured across multiple programs and platforms, including national broadcast shows, CBS News 24/7, CBSNews.com and the organization’s social media accounts.
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The stench in the coastal Venezuelan community of La Guaira is an impossible one to forget, even nearly a week after returning to the United States. It was an overwhelming combination of debris, smoke and death.
The twin earthquakes that rocked Venezuela within a minute late last month led to catastrophic levels of destruction, leveling entire areas in La Guaira, a city once known for its port and beaches but that resembled a war zone during our visits. The quakes also caused tremendous human loss, killing and injuring thousands of Venezuelans, leading to tens of thousands of reported disappearances and displacing many others.
We saw residents of La Guaira use their hands to lift debris and materials in apartment buildings that had pancaked down, trapping many inside. Alongside rescue workers, they desperately searched for any signs of life. The noise from shovels, jackhammers and other machinery was interrupted sporadically when rescuers asked for silence in the hopes of detecting tapping or movements by those trapped in the rubble.
To this day, an unknown number of bodies remain buried in the piles of rubble scattered across La Guaira, where the destruction caused by the quakes was concentrated. The official death tally, which stands at nearly 4,000 people, will almost certainly continue climbing. At one point, the United Nations estimated more than 50,000 Venezuelans were missing. The search-and-rescue operation we saw, undertaken by rescuers from across the globe, including U.S. teams, has largely given way to recovery efforts.
CBS News was the first American broadcast network to report from La Guaira, starting our coverage there two days after the June 24 quakes. We had to fly to Panama City, where we boarded a flight to a small airport in Valencia, Venezuela’s third-largest city, because the country’s main airport near Caracas was badly damaged by the quakes.
A toppled building in the Venezuelan city of La Guaira. Camilo Montoya-Galvez
During the weeklong reporting trip, we drove to La Guaira nearly every single day. In normal times, the drive there from Caracas takes roughly half an hour. But our first trip to La Guaira took hours, as Venezuelans flooded the highway to deliver water, food and other supplies to those affected by the earthquakes. We barely made it in time to file our report for “CBS Evening News” that Friday. The following trips were shorter and less chaotic, after Venezuelan authorities restricted entry into La Guaira. To our surprise, we were never barred from traveling there to report on the devastation.
The potent smell in La Guaira is not the only thing that is difficult to forget. Etched in my mind is the incalculable human suffering we witnessed there. We met and spoke to Venezuelans who had lost their children, siblings and other relatives, including a mother who miraculously survived her building’s collapse. Her 12-year-old son did not.
Outside a hospital in Caracas, where we saw desperate families scouring patient lists in search of their loved ones, we met a woman who was bringing soup to her 6-year-old nephew, who had been hospitalized. While he survived, his mother, the woman’s sister, did not. In the outskirts of La Guaira, we interviewed a Venezuelan firefighter who, lacking heavy machinery, was unable to retrieve bodies from a collapsed building so the victims’ loved ones could bury them.
In a camp for people displaced by the earthquakes, we met a grandmother and mother who had lost her home in La Guaira. Inside the tent where she slept with her son, she begged for help and a permanent home, calling her situation a “nightmare.” We saw scores of tents inside the camp, a relatively organized operation inside a public park in Caracas.
But amid the utter devastation, mass destruction and suffocating despair, we also saw glimpses of hope. In the tent camp, we saw children playing soccer, seemingly detached from the tragic circumstances that had displaced their families.
Children play soccer in a tent camp in Caracas that housed families who were displaced by the earthquakes. Camilo Montoya-Galvez
Outside what used to be a McDonald’s restaurant in La Guaira, volunteer veterinarians set up a makeshift animal clinic for dogs, cats and other pets injured or left ownerless by the back-to-back earthquakes. With few tools but an admirable drive to save animals, they described their work as “war medicine.”
Canine rescuer Zilla with his handler, Dustin Reynolds, a member of U.S. rescue team Virginia Task Force One. Camilo Montoya-Galvez
Despite the Venezuelan government’s efforts to vilify the U.S. in recent decades, we found Venezuelans who welcomed — and in some cases, desperately asked for – American assistance. The earthquakes occurred roughly six months after the American military seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro so he could face criminal charges in the U.S., leaving in place his vice president, who has since worked closely with the Trump administration.
The U.S. search and rescue team included three-year-old Zilla, one of 23 highly trained American canines deployed to Venezuela. We saw him scour buildings, sniffing for signs of life, a few days after he found a family of three trapped in the rubble. The father had died, but his wife and their young son were rescued alive.
We also saw rescue teams from several dozen other countries on the ground in Venezuela, both official delegations and volunteer groups. We met rescuers from Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Mexico, Portugal, Vietnam and other nations. We saw them work alongside residents of La Guaira to look for their neighbors and loved ones.
In fact, it was a team of rescuers from several countries, mainly El Salvador, Chile, Costa Rica, Portugal and the U.S., who saved Hernan Gil Flores, a security guard who was trapped inside a building, beneath tons of concrete, for eight days.
“It’s a total miracle,” his wife told us outside of that building. “It is something inexplicable.”
Hernan Gil, who survived for nearly eight days beneath the rubble of a building on the verge of collapse in Catia La Mar, remains admitted in the Hospital de Clinicas in Caracas, accompanied by his partner Rubesmal Gonzalez, on July 5, 2026. Rosali Hernandez /AFP via Getty Images