Aunt of Venezuelan boy pulled from rubble tells BBC she will give him ‘mother’s warmth’

He said he and Ana Luz, 31, are extremely close and talk on video calls every day. Kleiber was always with his sister.

“Wherever he went, his son would go too. Whatever Kleiber wanted, he would please him. If he had no money, he would call me ‘Kleiber wants this’ or ‘he misses that’,” Andreína said.

“She is my older sister and I always trusted her and was able to tell her my problems and when I talked to her on a video call the child was with her.”

Andreína said she was sure her sister would be with Kleiber at the wreckage.

While he was sitting in the hospital with his nephew, desperate search and rescue efforts were continuing after the earthquake.

Approximately 2,295 deaths have been officially recorded, but the final number is expected to be much higher. Tens of thousands of people were reported missing and the United Nations announced it would supply 10,000 body bags for the country.

Andreína said she hasn’t lost hope that Kleiber’s family will be rescued.

“I believe they will find my sister and brother-in-law, just as they found my nephew,” he said.

Looking at Kleiber fondly, she said she believed “he had a purpose in this world.”

“When this child grows up, God willing, this will be his story,” he said.

Additional reporting by Euridice Ledezma