Between silence and shouts, rescuers dig for Venezuela twin quake survivors

More than 100 people stood silently on Tuesday in the road alongside what used to be the Los Cocos public housing complex in Venezuela’s La Guaira state.

For 10 minutes, interrupted only by the occasional cellphone ring or shout from a rescuer, people strained their ears for any sound of survivors of the twin earthquakes that last week destroyed six of the eight towers that made up the Hugo Chavez complex, known colloquially as Los Cocos....