Colombia’s National Disaster Risk Management Unit (UNGRD) said Moises was buried under about 3 meters (9.8 ft) of debris, and rescue teams spent six hours on Saturday carrying out “high-precision work” to reach him.
Reuters reported that a rescue worker was heard saying over a walkie-talkie that the young boy had been found near his sister and mother, who were both dead.
A few hours later, Rodriguez posted a video on X, purportedly showing the rescue of a second 11-year-old boy in the town of Caraballeda.
“In these hours, every life is hope for Venezuela,” he wrote.
Also in Caraballeda, French and US teams rescued a father and his teenage son from debris on Sunday, reports AFP news agency.
Officials said the coastal area of ​​La Guaira, where Caraballeda is located, was hardest hit.
Rescue workers’ efforts have been hampered by aftershocks, scaring residents.
“To be honest, it makes you feel nervous. The slightest noise… terrible,” bus driver Jesus Andueza, 64, told BBC Mundo.
Thousands of people are living in their cars or camping in places like airports and golf courses, away from collapsed buildings.
The golf course in Caraballeda has become the center of emergency response.
Its lush green lawn, once immaculately manicured, is now a makeshift hospital and donation center, where residents who have lost everything are sifting through piles of donated clothes and boxes of humanitarian aid.
In another part of the golf course, next to a small lagoon, a strip of land has been set up as a landing pad for helicopters arriving with supplies and emergency personnel from Venezuela and abroad.
In the vicinity of the golf course, the streets of Caraballeda – broken and covered in debris – are marked by dust and silence, interrupted only by heavy machinery and those searching among the remains.
