委内瑞拉拉瓜伊拉 —— 走入朱雷尔大楼的废墟，能听到两种声音：几个好奇的路人凝视着6月24日地震留下的记忆之墓发出的低语，以及瓦砾的嘎吱声。自两次地震接连袭击委内瑞拉这一沿海地区已过去三个月。但对于那些未能妥善向亲人告别的人来说，这场毁灭的余波仍在持续。23岁的克里斯蒂安·贝尔杜那天失去了哥哥、表弟和母亲。
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — Upon entering the ruins of the Jurel building, one hears two things: the murmur of a few curious passersby gazing at the tomb of memories left by the June 24 earthquakes and the creaking of the rubble. Three months have passed since two earthquakes in quick succession shook this area of the Venezuelan coast. But the devastation continues to resonate for those who haven’t been able to properly say goodbye to loved ones. Cristian Verdú, 23, lost his brother, his cousin and his mother that day.
后两人的遗体仍埋在大楼的废墟中。无人机搜索确认了他们的位置，以及其他受害者的遗体。大楼倒塌情况极其严重，以至于在搜寻数月后，他的寻找工作变得——至少可以说——几乎不可能。“她活着的时候我从未让她独自一人。认识我家的人都知道我母亲，也知道无论发生什么，我永远都在母亲身边，”贝尔杜说，他之所以在6月24日幸存，是因为当时他在奈瓜塔，一个距离朱雷尔大楼所在的大海滩约45分钟车程的小镇。
The bodies of the latter two remain buried in the building’s rubble. A drone search confirmed their location, along with the bodies of other victims. The building’s collapse is so severe that his search has become — to say the least — nearly impossible after months of searching. “I never left her alone while she was alive. Anyone who knew my family knew my mother and knew that no matter what happened, I was always there for my mother,” said Verdú, who survived on June 24 because he was in Naiguatá, a town about 45 minutes from Playa Grande, where the Jurel is located.
记者玛丽奥林·门德斯发布的一段视频中，贝尔杜恳求帮助寻回亲人遗体，这让他寻找家人的事迹在网络上广为传播。其他人已经能够取回家人的遗骸。发现自己孤军奋战后，贝尔杜在朱雷尔大楼附近搭起帐篷，监督对母亲的搜寻。一支墨西哥救援队试图将她救出，但大楼再次倒塌的危险太大。朱雷尔大楼共12层。贝尔杜的母亲在8层，最终掉到了6层：它的倒塌方式与其他大楼不同，低层部分在地震中勉强支撑住了，但上层楼板一层接一层地垮塌。
The search for Verdú’s family went viral following a video posted by journalist Maryorin Méndez in which Verdú pleaded for help recovering his loved ones’ bodies. Others had been able to retrieve their family members’ remains. Finding himself alone, Verdú set up a tent near the Jurel to oversee the search for his mom. A Mexican rescue team tried to get her out, but the danger of the building collapsing was too great. The Jurel building had 12 floors. Verdú’s mother was on the eighth floor and ended up on the sixth: Its collapse wasn’t like others in that the lower floors partially withstood the earthquake, but the upper floors collapsed one after another.
暴露出来的是敞开的房间、浴室和走廊。一个倾斜向悬崖的游泳池，警示着路人这栋楼曾发生过悲剧。
What was revealed were the exposed rooms, bathrooms and halls. A swimming pool sloping toward a precipice warns passersby that a tragedy occurred in the building. ‘Still had a conversation to finish’ Verdú recounted that the Jurel was his family’s vacation home; they lived in Caracas, in the 23 de Enero neighborhood, a popular area in the western part of the city.
“还有话没说完” 维尔杜回忆道，朱雷尔是他家的度假屋；他们住在加拉加斯的1月23日社区，那是城市西部一个平民区。 地震发生的那天，维尔杜第一次去参加圣胡安鼓乐节，这是一个纪念施洗者圣约翰的沿海传统，每年6月24日庆祝。 他解释说，去参加节日是他活下来的原因。 前一天，他和家人在一起，花了很多时间陪母亲。
On the day of the earthquakes, Verdú went for the first time to the San Juan drumming festival, a coastal tradition honoring St. John the Baptist that is celebrated every June 24. Going to the festival is the reason he’s alive, he explained. The day before, he was with his family and had spent a lot of time with his mother.
“我弟弟在游泳池里，我整天陪着她。我们聊天，她带走了些秘密，因为我那天跟她说了那些事，我们还有话没说完，”他对Noticias Telemundo说道。 当地震袭来，他看到自家度假屋几乎不复存在时，他说他经历了一次精神崩溃。 “我冲出去，尖叫着，找不到活着的家人，然后不得不报告我表弟和我弟弟的一个朋友也去世了，”维尔杜说，并补充说情况很困难，因为其他家人以为他也死了。
“My little brother was in the pool, and I spent the day with her. We talked, and she took some secrets with her because I told her things that day, and we still had a conversation to finish,” he told Noticias Telemundo. When the earthquake struck and he saw that practically nothing remained of his vacation home, he said he experienced a mental breakdown. “I ran out, screaming, not finding my family alive and then having to report that my cousin and a friend of my brother had also died,” Verdú said, adding that it was a difficult situation because other family members thought he had also died.
他立即开始寻找家人，尤其是母亲。 在他生日前夕，地震发生近两个月后，维尔杜在社交媒体上宣布结束对母亲和表弟的寻找。 没有资源，别无选择只能离开。 “我感觉不好了。我精疲力竭，”维尔杜说，并补充说情况每天都变得更复杂。 即便如此，维尔杜仍在等待和希望。 “案子在社交媒体上结了，但搜寻没停，因为还有人想把她救出来，想帮我，”他说。
He immediately began searching for his family, especially his mother. On the eve of his birthday, almost two months after the earthquake, Verdú announced on social media that he was ending his search for his mom and cousin. Without resources, there was no other option but to leave. “I wasn’t feeling well anymore. I was exhausted,” Verdú said, adding that the situation was getting more complicated every day. Even so, Verdú continues to wait and hope. “The case was closed on social media, but the search hasn’t stopped because there are still people who want to get her out and want to help me,” he said.
如果在母亲和表弟的遗骸还在里面时拆除大楼，维尔杜准备继续寻找她，哪怕是在废墟残骸中。
If they demolish the building with his mother’s and cousin’s remains still inside, Verdú is prepared to continue searching for her, even if it’s among what remains of the rubble.
“虽然不容易，但相信我，等他们拆完楼，我会回去找我母亲，”他说，或许是希望能借此找到一丝安宁。韦尔杜说，每晚他都梦见母亲想告诉他什么，但总是停住了，或者被吓住了。“很多事都没来得及做完。母亲的生日快到了，我们原本计划好了一次旅行，可命运弄人。或许母亲和我弟弟不得不踏上一场我无法同行的旅程，”他说。
“It won’t be easy, but believe me, after they demolish the building, I will go back for my mother,” he said, hoping perhaps he can find some peace. Verdú said that every night he dreams that his mother wants to tell him something, but she always stops or gets scared. “Many things were left unfinished. My mother’s birthday was coming up, and we had a trip planned, but life had other plans. Perhaps my mother and my little brother had to take a trip that I couldn’t go on,” he said.
在难民营里生活，在等待拉瓜伊拉到处都在上演着韦尔杜这样的故事。在加勒比住宅区，家属和志愿救援人员仍在继续搜寻亲人。加勒比住宅区原是一个住宅开发项目，由三座塔楼组成。其中两座仍然屹立，另一座却彻底坍塌。在俯瞰塔楼的泳池区，居民们等待着亲人的遗体被寻回。救援人员没有准确数字，但他们估计园区内仍有70多具遗骸，尽管那里登记失踪的人数少于这个数字。
Living in a camp, and waiting Stories like Verdú’s are repeated throughout La Guaira. At Residencias Caribe, family members and volunteer rescuers continue the search for people. Residencias Caribe was part of a residential development and consisted of three towers. Two of them remained standing; the other collapsed completely. At the pool area, which overlooks the towers, residents wait for loved ones’ bodies to be recovered. Rescuers don’t have a precise number, but they estimate that more than 70 people’s remains are still in the complex, even though fewer than that number have been declared missing there.
居民们对这种差异有两种推测：要么是有些人的亲属根本不知道他们在那里，要么是整个家庭都遇难了，无人前来认领。
Residents have two theories for the discrepancy: Either some people’s relatives didn’t know they were there or entire families perished, with no one left to claim them.
安吉·索霍躺在帐篷里，身旁风扇吹着风，驱散蚊虫和燥热。她在加勒比住宅区住了20多年，过去三个月一直在寻找丈夫古斯塔沃·阿道夫·里亚斯科斯·戈麦斯，现年51岁。她的生活连同家园在一夜之间轰然倒塌，如今她只能等待救援人员的消息。索霍的丈夫当时在住宅区B塔二楼。楼体坍塌后，他的遗体最终落在了停车场，三个月来他们一直试图将其取出，却始终未果。索霍目前和其他邻居、留宿过夜的救援人员一起住在营地里。
Lying in a tent, next to a fan that cools the air and keeps the mosquitoes away, is Angie Sojo. She has lived in Residencias Caribe for over 20 years and for the past three months has been searching for her husband, Gustavo Adolfo Riascos Gómez, 51. Her life collapsed along with her home in a single night, and now she awaits news from the rescuers. Sojo’s husband was on the second floor of Tower B of the residences. After the collapse, his body ended up in the parking lot, and for three months they have been trying to recover it without success. Sojo currently lives in the encampment with other neighbors and rescuers who stay overnight.
“起初我们都睡在床垫上，后来他们开始给我们送帐篷，”她说。加勒比海公寓的故事与该地区其他建筑的遭遇并无二致：没有援助，没有救援人员，没有物资。一点点地，一些援助到了，即便如此，也远远不够。在加勒比海公寓，问题不仅是倒塌，还有洪水。底层全是水，需要用水泵降低水位。6月24日，索霍在加拉加斯工作，距离拉瓜伊拉约40分钟车程。
“At first we all slept on a mattress, and then they started bringing us tents,” she said. The story of Residencias Caribe is not so different from that of other buildings in the area: There was no help, no rescuers, no supplies. Little by little, some help arrived, and even then, it wasn’t enough. At Residencias Caribe, the problem isn’t just the collapse, but also the flooding. The first floors are full of water, and pumps have been needed to lower the water level. On June 24, Sojo was working in Caracas, about 40 minutes from La Guaira.
她说到达大楼时，自己非常迷失方向，只是拼命喊着丈夫的名字。她和20岁的女儿已经等了三个月的消息，每当有邻居的遗体被找到，她们都会感到欣慰，但她表示，一想到何时轮到自己，心就碎了。“这让我既焦虑又欣慰，因为又有一个邻居离开了。我紧抓着我们的爱不放，”索霍谈到丈夫时说，“如果换了是他，他也会在这里找我。”
She said that when she got to the building, she was so disoriented that she just started shouting her husband’s name. She and her 20-year-old daughter have been waiting for news for three months and are happy every time a neighbor’s remains are rescued, but she said her heart breaks thinking about when her turn will come. “It causes anxiety and joy at the same time because it’s another neighbor who’s leaving. I cling to our love,” Sojo said about her husband, “and if it had been the other way around, he’d be here looking for me, too.” ‘Something I owe her’ Valeria Alcalá has been searching for her mother since the earthquakes struck.
“我欠她的事” 自地震发生以来，瓦莱里娅·阿尔卡拉一直在寻找母亲。阿尔卡拉今年18岁，即将上大学。但目前，她每天都在等待关于寻找母亲的消息。“从事发那一刻起我就一直在这里。这是一场持续的斗争，因为我觉得这是我欠她的，”她说。阿尔卡拉在6月24日失去了母亲和继父的消息。她最后一次见到他们是前一天，在圣胡安鼓乐节上。
Alcalá is 18 years old and will soon start university. But for now, she waits every day for news about the search for her mother. “I’ve been here since it all happened. This has been a constant struggle because I feel like it’s something I owe her,” she said. Alcalá lost track of her mother and stepfather on June 24. The last time she saw them was the day before, at the San Juan drumming festival.
阿尔卡拉记得他们叮嘱她要乖。他们俩都死在了倒塌的楼房里；他们在楼下，在地震发生前五分钟才到。阿尔卡拉的亲戚帮助了她，但他们不知道从哪里开始寻找。一个月前，继父的遗体被找到。她说那是最艰难的时刻之一。
Alcalá remembers them telling her to behave. They both died in the collapsed buildings; they were downstairs, having arrived five minutes before the earthquakes. Alcalá’s relatives helped her, but they didn’t know where to begin the search. Her stepfather’s body was found a month ago. It was one of the hardest moments, she said.
“知道他们在那里，和把遗体拉出来、不得不说‘是的，是他’是不一样的。辨认遗体很困难，”阿尔卡拉说。她依靠那些变成救援人员的邻居。其中一位叫切洛。他在地震中也失去了家人，却留下来继续帮助昔日的邻居。纳伊贝·赫罗梅斯正在寻找她的母亲，莱达·何塞菲娜·马塔·库皮多，64岁。6月24日，她不知道母亲是否设法逃了出来，于是去避难所寻找答案。
“Knowing they’re there is not the same as having the body pulled out and having to say, ‘Yes, it’s him.’ Recognizing the body is difficult,” Alcalá said. She relied on neighbors who had become rescuers. One of them is named Chelo. He also lost his family in the earthquakes and stayed to continue helping fellow former residents. Nayibe Geromes is searching for her mother, Leída Josefina Mata Cupido, 64. On June 24, she didn’t know if her mother had managed to escape, so she went to shelters hoping for an answer.
一无所获。从那时起，她一直待在母亲居住的住宅楼里，等待母亲的遗体被找到。“我确定她在这里，因为他们进来拿走了证明她在这里的东西，比如她的身份证，我还留着，装着所有卡片的钱包，还有她的手机。她在这里，”赫罗梅斯说。
There was none. Since then, she has been staying at the residences where her mother lived, waiting for her body to be found. “I’m certain she’s here because they came in and took things that indicate she was here, like her ID, which I still have, her wallet with all her cards, and her cellphone. She’s here,” Geromes said.
加勒比住宅的居民们在废墟中寻找亲人已有三个月，彼此已如家人般相依为命。他们仅存的支持来自志愿救援人员和家属。“我想让她安息，把她接回去，这样我们也能继续生活，因为生活还得继续。我们哭了太多了，”赫罗梅斯说。邻居们解释说，当他们发现一具遗体时，不再感到悲伤，而是为逝者能得到应有的安息而感到欣慰。
The Residencias Caribe residents have become like family after spending three months searching for their loved ones in the rubble. Their only remaining support comes from volunteer rescuers and family members. “I want to give her eternal rest and get her back so that we too can move on because life goes on. We have cried a lot,” Geromes said. The neighbors explained that they no longer feel sadness when they find a body and are happy the person’s remains will get the rest they deserve.
“我妈妈值得安息。安吉（索霍）的丈夫，我们所有在这里的人，我认为都值得安宁、回家，因为这是一场不知疲倦的战斗，”赫罗梅斯说，“但我向你保证，我们会坚持到最后一刻。”
“My mom deserves rest. Angie (Sojo)’s husband, all of us who are here I think deserve to be at peace and go home, because this is a tireless fight,” Geromes said, “but I assure you that we will be here until the very end.”
这些救援人员不会离开马塞尔·埃尔南德斯是加勒比住宅的一名志愿救援人员。三个月来，他一直在从建筑物中拉出遗体。他原本是个建筑工人，但自6月24日起，他就只做一件事：收敛尸体。他讲述了他在加勒比住宅收敛的第一批遗体，就是他的家人：他的表弟、表弟媳和他们的四个孩子。
These rescuers aren’t leaving Marcel Hernández is one of the volunteer rescuers at Residencias Caribe. He has been pulling bodies from the structures for three months. He was a construction worker by trade, but since June 24, he has done nothing but recover corpses. He recounted that the first bodies he recovered at Residencias Caribe were those of his family: his cousin, his cousin’s wife and their four children.
“我们从一把鹤嘴锄开始——一块接一块地砸碎石板。直到今天，我还没有停止搜寻，”埃尔南德斯说。17天后，他把家人救了出来。埃尔南德斯向同住的居民切洛承诺，在找到他的家人之前不会离开，切洛也向他做出了同样的承诺。他们坚持要救出所有人才会离开。
“We started with a pickax — breaking slab after slab. To this day, I haven’t stopped searching,” Hernández said. He got his family out 17 days later. Hernández promised fellow resident Chelo that they wouldn’t leave until they found his family, and Chelo promised him the same. They insist they won’t leave until they’ve rescued everyone.
叶萨明·梅迪纳，人称“拉·托皮托”（“小鼹鼠”），是加勒比住宅区的另一名志愿救援人员。梅迪纳解释说，地震前她怕黑且有幽闭恐惧症，但她在那里克服了这种恐惧。“我出于爱和同理心成为了一名‘鼹鼠’，不求任何回报，仅仅是出于对同胞的爱。当他们还需要帮助时，我无法待在家里。我留在这里是因为爱他们，”她说。
Yessamin Medina, known as “La Topito” (“Little Mole”), is another volunteer rescuer at Residencias Caribe. Medina explained that before the earthquakes, she was afraid of the dark and was claustrophobic, but she overcame that fear there. “I became a ‘mole’ out of love and empathy, without receiving anything in return, simply out of love for my fellow man. I can’t be at home when they still need help here. I’m here out of love for them,” she said.
梅迪纳今年20岁，地震后她创建了“埃斯佩兰萨桥”基金会，从而成为了“鼹鼠”。志愿救援人员离开了家人、家园和工作，继续提供帮助。“我们实际上一直在用双手在这里工作，但我们用双手取得了许多成就，”她说道，并解释说缺乏机械设备以及倒塌的灾难性性质使得工作极其困难。
Medina is 20 years old and became a “mole” thanks to the foundation she created, Puente de Esperanza (Bridge of Hope), after the earthquakes. The volunteer rescuers have left family, homes and jobs to continue helping. “We have practically been working here with our hands, but with our hands we have achieved many things,” she said, explaining that the lack of machinery and the disastrous nature of the collapse have made the work extremely difficult.
据梅迪纳说，家属的痛苦是最难熬的。“在家里，我跟自己对话，试图想办法如何能更快地把他们救出来，”她说。
The anguish of the families is the hardest thing, according to Medina. “At home, I’m talking to myself and trying to figure out how I can get them out faster,” she said.
本文早期版本最早由Noticias Telemundo发布。
An earlier version of this story was first published by Noticias Telemundo.