In La Guaira, Venezuela, families are enduring agonizing waits at a makeshift morgue, a port storage facility, to identify victims of twin earthquakes that have claimed over 2,600 lives. The sheer scale of the disaster has overwhelmed local services, forcing authorities to improvise with temporary tents and open-air storage for bodies, accelerating decomposition under the sun. Relatives, some searching for nearly a week, face the grim task of identifying loved ones through clothing, tattoos, scars, or a gallery of over 1,000 images displayed on television screens. The process is emotionally taxing, with forensic specialists using dental records and other means to aid identification in cases where bodies are severely disfigured, leaving families grappling with immense grief and uncertainty nine days after the tremors.