CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP)—Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez said on Tuesday the international airport damaged in last month’s twin earthquakes would reopen as soon as possible using an alternative runway.

Simon Bolivar International Airport is in La Guaira, north of Caracas and the epicenter of the June 24 quakes that toppled scores of residential buildings and killed more than 3,500 people.

One of Latin America’s worst earthquake disasters has left thousands of people homeless and thousands more still missing, especially in badly damaged La Guaira, where families are still digging in the rubble.