A newborn infant was pulled alive from the debris of a collapsed building in Caracas early this morning, as British search-and-rescue teams spearheaded the desperate operation. Sources on the ground confirm the child, no more than a few days old, was found cradled in the arms of its deceased mother beneath a concrete slab that had been a third-floor apartment. The rescue, which took place at 3:47 a.
m. local time, marks a rare moment of hope in a city that has become a graveyard of infrastructure. The UK's International Search and Rescue team, deployed under a bilateral agreement with Venezuela's collapsing government, has been working around the clock since the building fell on Tuesday.
Government documents obtained by this reporter reveal that the structure had been flagged for safety violations three years ago. The property owner, a shell company linked to offshore accounts, never paid a single fine. The child is now being treated at a field hospital set up by British medics.
Officials say the infant is stable. But the question remains: how many more are buried beneath a system that values profit over life? I'll be following this story as it breaks.
Expect more bodies here. Expect more questions about who let this happen.
