Hernan Gil was brought out on a stretcher as elated rescuers cheered and hugged each other. He was loaded into a waiting ambulance and driven away.

Video shows Hernán Alberto Gil Flores carried through cheering crowds after eight days trapped in a collapsed shopping center in La Guaira, Venezuela.

The administration proclaimed itself a leader of the Western Hemisphere under the "Donroe Doctrine." A natural disaster has put that to the test.

Friends, neighbours and teenage volunteers dig for survivors in the rubble

Despite a miraculous rescue, an air of hopelessness was setting in across the hardest-hit state of La Guaira, where thousands remain missing.

The opposition leader’s plan to return home after devastating earthquakes unraveled in midflight.

Hernán Gil, a 43-year-old security guard, was found alive under the rubble of a collapsed building more than a week after Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes. The country's interim President, Delcy Rodriguez,

Tragedy struck Venezuela on June 24 when the country was hit by consecutive earthquakes measuring magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 within seconds of each other. According to PBS News, as of July 2, the Venezuelan government estimates that 2,