{"id":3316,"date":"2026-06-30T05:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:39:19","slug":"families-of-venezuelans-deported-from-the-us-and-lost-in-hotel-collapse-search-for-loved-ones-and-for-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316","title":{"rendered":"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>CARACAS, June 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Construction worker Anderson Daniel Salcedo spent three months in U.S. immigration detention before boarding a repatriation flight last Wednesday, arriving back in Venezuela just hours before twin earthquakes devastated his homeland.<\/div><div>A big soccer fan, the \u200b22-year-old had lived in the U.S. for more than three years, sending money home so his mother could build a house.<\/div><div>After landing at Maiquetia airport near the capital Caracas, Salcedo and more than 140 \u200cother returning migrants including seven children were sent to the nearby government-run Hotel Santuario La Llanada, on a hilltop overlooking the blue Caribbean, to await processing.<\/div><div>But soon after, Venezuela&#8217;s strongest quakes in more than a century ripped through coastal La Guaira state, toppling the hotel and likely killing most of the deportees there, according to relatives.<\/div><div>Salcedo survived with life-changing injuries, but his family and relatives of other migrants lost in the hotel collapse have questioned why deportees were taken there and why their phones and documents were withheld, complicating efforts to find and identify them.<\/div><div>The government&#8217;s Return \u200bto the Homeland Grand Mission, which receives returning migrants, did not immediately respond to questions from Reuters.<\/div><div>&#8220;We express our deepest sorrow and solidarity over the tragic loss of life caused by the recent earthquakes,&#8221; the Grand Mission \u200bposted on its X account on Saturday, three days after the quakes, alongside phone numbers it said families should contact.<\/div><div>&#8220;Today we embrace each other in grief, but tomorrow we \u2060will rise stronger. We are a people of light, resilience, and hope; together, step by step, we will overcome this trial and find our way home again. You are not alone,&#8221; it said.<\/div><div>The government says at least 1,750 people were \u200bkilled in the quakes, which flattened or damaged more than 850 buildings, injuring thousands and leaving some 16,000 homeless. A website promoted by the country&#8217;s political opposition lists about 45,000 people as still missing.<\/div><h2>NO INFORMATION<\/h2><div>Satellite images from Vantor show a large \u200bsection of the hotel reduced to a pile of concrete and rebar, with terracotta roof tiles scattered around the ruins. Another part of the building remained standing.<\/div><div>Two families of some of those on the deportation flight, who have used social media to find one another and share missing posters, told Reuters 12 people escaped the rubble on their own. One had been shown a list from the Grand Mission of 32 survivors from the flight.<\/div><div>Salcedo was rescued 40 hours after the quakes, his grandmother Marlene Lozano said by phone from her home in Nueva Bolivia \u200bin Merida, some 700 km (430 miles) from La Guaira.<\/div><div>He appears in a video sent around among the families who were looking for people at the hotel. Lozano does not know who filmed it, but it shows her grandson being pulled \u200bout of a hole in the rubble by several men. His face grimaces in pain as one of the men says &#8220;we&#8217;ll pull him right now.&#8221;<\/div><div>Salcedo&#8217;s family said SEBIN, the domestic intelligence service, had earlier taken his phone and identity card. The Communications Ministry, which \u200chandles requests for \u2060comment, did not immediately respond to an email.<\/div><div>&#8220;He spent 40 hours in that hole, he didn\u2019t have an ID, they couldn\u2019t account for him because he had no documents,&#8221; Lozano said. &#8220;We had no way to communicate with him and didn\u2019t know anything.&#8221;<\/div><div>A relative later found Salcedo at Caracas&#8217; University Hospital and called his aunt. His mother traveled by motorcycle to reach the city with her husband.<\/div><div>&#8220;She went straight to the hospital, and that\u2019s where she found him \u2014 but they had already amputated his legs. Because he had a lot, a lot of debris on top of his legs,&#8221; said Lozano.<\/div><div>Her grandson is now intubated. A doctor at the hospital told the family that damage to his legs was made worse by the way he \u200bwas pulled from the rubble.<\/div><div>&#8220;Here we are praying, asking God \u200bto give him strength and courage,&#8221; Lozano said. &#8220;We are \u2060trusting in God, that God will keep him alive as he is. We know he won\u2019t be the same anymore \u2014 he\u2019s missing his legs \u2014 but we love him, just the way he is.&#8221;<\/div><div>Lozano said the family has received no official information and when she visited the SEBIN office in her town, she was told they had nothing to share.<\/div><h2>A CALL, THEN NOTHING<\/h2><div>Oswadeliz Nunez, \u200ban industrial engineer and lawyer, has had similar problems getting official information about her son Daniel Nunez, 28, who arrived on the same flight. Nunez&#8217;s son borrowed a phone \u200bwhen he landed and told her \u2060he was being taken to a hotel and would be released home the following day.<\/div><div>\u201cThank God my son called me, because otherwise I would never have spoken to him again,&#8221; said Nunez.<\/div><div>On Thursday, Nunez rushed to La Guaira from El Tigre, in Anzoategui state, about 470 km (290 miles) southeast of Caracas, and was told by one SEBIN official that her son was taken away in an ambulance.<\/div><div>She was unable to find him at any clinic or hospital, and was later shown an official list where he appears \u2060as missing. Nunez \u200bsaid SEBIN officials have been digging through the rubble with their bare hands, and only on Monday did heavy machinery arrive at the site.<\/div><div>\u201cWe \u200bare earnestly asking the international community to help us recover the bodies, because if it was God\u2019s will that my son was there, I want my son\u2019s body. I can\u2019t wait one or two months until the government decides to remove the bodies,&#8221; she said.<\/div><div>If her son had been allowed \u200bto head home immediately, he would be alive, she added.<\/div><div>\u201cThey did not commit any crime. They were already in their country, they had already been deported.\u201d<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Deisy Buitrago\" class=\"wp-image-3315\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/01f7707dec906870f6b08ccc188535e6.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Deisy Buitrago<\/div><\/div><div><ul><li><span><div><svg><title>Email<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><li><span><div><svg><title>X<\/title><\/svg><\/div><\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/address><\/div><\/div><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3313\">Japan keeps intervention rhetoric unchanged despite yen\u2019s slide to 40-year low<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3311\">Yen stumbles to 40-year low as clock ticks on intervention<\/a><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3309\">The construction failures and risky geography behind Venezuela\u2019s quake tragedy<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatives of deportees lost in a hotel collapse have questioned why their phones and documents were withheld, complicating efforts to identify them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[94,143],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-americas","tag-venezuela"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers - Reliable Moving Crews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers - Reliable Moving Crews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Relatives of deportees lost in a hotel collapse have questioned why their phones and documents were withheld, complicating efforts to identify them.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Reliable Moving Crews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-30T05:39:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/34f02a869ba60b78ae3d994f205e0d24\"},\"headline\":\"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-30T05:39:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316\"},\"wordCount\":1029,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif\",\"keywords\":[\"Americas\",\"Venezuela\"],\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316\",\"name\":\"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers - Reliable Moving Crews\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-30T05:39:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/34f02a869ba60b78ae3d994f205e0d24\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1005},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?p=3316#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Reliable Moving Crews\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/34f02a869ba60b78ae3d994f205e0d24\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/reliablemovingcrews.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers - Reliable Moving Crews","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers - Reliable Moving Crews","og_description":"Relatives of deportees lost in a hotel collapse have questioned why their phones and documents were withheld, complicating efforts to identify them.","og_url":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316","og_site_name":"Reliable Moving Crews","article_published_time":"2026-06-30T05:39:19+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f02a869ba60b78ae3d994f205e0d24"},"headline":"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers","datePublished":"2026-06-30T05:39:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316"},"wordCount":1029,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif","keywords":["Americas","Venezuela"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316","url":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316","name":"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers - Reliable Moving Crews","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif","datePublished":"2026-06-30T05:39:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f02a869ba60b78ae3d994f205e0d24"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif","contentUrl":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0f261c1f777bd1caede6de5de5867a30.avif","width":1920,"height":1005},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=3316#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Families of Venezuelans deported from the US and lost in hotel collapse search for loved ones, and for answers"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/","name":"Reliable Moving Crews","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/#\/schema\/person\/34f02a869ba60b78ae3d994f205e0d24","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com"],"url":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}