At least 1,450 are known to have died but the number is expected to rise My colleague Clavel Rangel has filed this story from Caracas: Displaced families from across Caracas have been arriving at Parque del Este, a beautiful 200-acre park in the city’s east that was designed by the legendary Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. We left because we were afraid the aftershocks would bring our house down. No one here has told us when we might be able to return.