His name is Moises. He is eleven years old. And for days after twin earthquakes brought his world down on top of him, he lay in the dark beneath roughly ten feet of rubble in La Guaira, the coastal Venezuelan state that absorbed the worst of the disaster — until a Colombian rescue team found him and pulled him back into the light.
The crew pinpointed the boy's position with a scanner, deep beneath the collapsed structure, Al Jazeera reported. When they finally reached him, they lifted him out on a stretcher with a broken arm, and covered his eyes with cloth — a small mercy to spare him the shock of daylight after so long in the blackness. He had survived. His mother and his sister, trapped in the same ruins, had not.
