RESCUE workers carry a baby rescued from the rubble in La Guaira.—Reuters • Death toll from deadly quakes rises to 1,450, with tens of thousands still missing • Newborn, two boys pulled out alive from rubble after three days LA GUAIRA: Rescue crews raced on Sunday to find survivors in the rubble of Venezuela’s powerful earthquakes as the death toll reached 1,450 and hopes dwindled more than three days after the earth roared and rumbled. Tens of thousands of people were reported missing as collapsed buildings dotted cities in a country already enduring an economic crisis and political upheaval after US forces captured former president Nicolas Maduro in January. Millions of people were also feared to lack sanitation and other basic needs.