00:00Venezuela is a nation united in grief.
00:03Yet out of the dust and devastation of this unfolding tragedy, her own stories are emerging
00:08of mothers who made the ultimate sacrifice to save their children.
00:17A nation built on concrete, now measured in loss, Venezuela is reeling after twin earthquakes.
00:23Magnitudes 722 and 75 struck the nation, followed by more than 700 aftershocks.
00:29The official death toll has climbed past 2000.
00:32However, the death toll could have been even more overwhelming, had it not been for those
00:37mothers who served as a shield for their children as the buildings collapsed.
00:41Stories of maternal heroism are defining this tragedy.
00:45Andrea, wife of local athlete Hector Beyo, used her own body to absorb a falling wall,
00:51saving her two-year-old daughter.
00:53Andrea did not survive.
00:56Another mother acted as an external lung, keeping her 18-day-old baby alive in the suffocating
01:01dust for a full day before rescue.
01:04Hundreds of children now wander as orphans, saved only because their mothers chose to protect
01:09them until their final breaths.
01:12In a disaster where the difference between life and death is pure chance,
01:15Venezuela's mothers continue to sustain life.
01:19progress?'Čyer
01:19,ćÄj yani kę°£y, runga,jÅ«rÄ,jÅ«rÄ, verte' ėė bĆ¢mÄs ins activa ilim MercĆ©nez
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