Officials report the death toll from the twin earthquakes is 3,342 while government and other tallies list either 30,388 or about 50,000 people missing, prompting urgent questions about registration and aid coordination.Nearly 30,000 Venezuelan officials and more than 3,000 international rescue workers are operating in the field as Samaritan's Purse runs a field hospital treating roughly 400 patients and begins handing care to local health centers.Search efforts are concentrated in La Guaira with a strong military presence and long queues for supplies; individual cases such as
Lucas Gámez and
Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, the grassroots searches by
Miguel Poleo, and remarks from
Marco Rubio and actions by
María Corina Machado are shaping response and public pressure.