The wife of former Major League Baseball outfielder Gorkys Hernández has been confirmed dead in the Venezuela earthquakes that struck near Macuto and La Guaira this week, the player announced on Saturday. The 36-year-old, named locally as Deisy Tovar de Hernández, was among those caught in the collapse of the Hotel Eduards as two powerful tremors shook the Caribbean coast.
For context, Venezuela was hit by back-to-back earthquakes, measured at magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, while the La Guaira Delfines baseball team were preparing to face the Aragua Tigres at the Estadio Forum de La Guaira, a beachfront stadium in Macuto. Several relatives of Delfines players, including Deisy, were staying at the nearby Hotel Eduards when the building partially crumbled, trapping guests under concrete and twisted metal.
