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The director of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD said Thursday that at least 273 people died and that 377 were missing from the region that was struck by a 7.4M earthquake on Monday. According to UNGRD director David Tamayo, the earthquake affected a total of 97,515 people. So far, rescue workers and neighbors were able The post Colombia says […]

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella said he would declare an economic emergency and create a reconstruction fund for homes and small businesses that were destroyed in Monday’s earthquake. In  a press statement, De la Espriella said that the government would initially support victims with temporary relief and will declare an economic emergency […]

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella asked the US Government for joint military operations “to destroy terrorists and terror networks,” said US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Wednesday. At an event of the so-called Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (ACCC) in Panama, Hegseth said that “Colombia will join the ACCC, becoming the 19th […]

The government of President Abelardo de la Espriella has been criticized over its refusal to accept foreign search and rescue workers in the crucial hours after Monday’s earthquake. One of the first to raise the alarm was China’s ambassador to Bogota, Zhu Jingyang, who called on the government on Tuesday to “release the name of The post Controversy […]

The death toll from Colombia’s devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake rose to 202 on Wednesday, according to the latest report from the country’s Institute of Legal Medicine, as rescue crews continued searching collapsed buildings and authorities assessed the full scale of destruction three days after the earthquake struck. The Institute said that, as of […]

Listen to this episode on Spotify The latest information on the earthquake that has devastated western Colombia. Emergency appeals: ⁠Colombian Red Cross⁠ ⁠Children Change Colombia The post Understanding the recent earthquake in Colombia appeared first on Colombia News.

Local and regional authorities have said that at least 227 people were confirmed killed in Monday’s earthquake while search and rescue teams continue to look for survivors. So far, 120 people were confirmed dead in Valle del Cauca where locals said that entire towns in the north of the province were all but destroyed by The post West Colombia earthquake […]

The death toll from Colombia’s powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rose to 181 on Tuesday, with over 1300 injured and estimated  200 missing as rescue crews continued searching collapsed buildings across the country’s western and central regions. Authorities warned that the death toll is likely to rise as emergency teams work through the rubble of […]

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella declared a national disaster and sent his ministers to the west of Colombia to coordinate rescue operations in response to a 7.4M earthquake. Following an emergency meeting at disaster management agency UNGRD, De la Espriella said he would travel to Pereira, one of the worst hit cities, to further The post […]

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday morning, killing at least two people and causing significant damage across the country, with buildings collapsing in several cities and a tower of the historic cathedral in Manizales partially collapsing. The earthquake struck at 7:34 a.m. local time, with its epicenter near San José del

An M7.4 earthquake hit western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 110 people and injuring hundreds. The earthquake struck around 7:30 and had its epicenter in San Jose del Palmar, a municipality in the Choco province. In the hour that followed, locals began reporting collapsed buildings in the cities of Cali, Pereira and Manizales, where The post 7.4M […]

Th US State Department said it will ask Congress for $1 billion for “deepening our shared and economic partnership” with the government of Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella. The funding boost, which resembles that of the first year of Plan Colombia in 2000, seeks to “support the De la Espriella Administration’s efforts to defeat The […]

President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, under extreme security precautions. De la Espriella was sworn in by the president of Congress, Senator Honorio Henriquez of the far-right Democratic Center party in the theater of the private University of Santiago de Cali. The first part of the ceremony The post De […]

Abelardo de la Espriella will be sworn in as Colombia’s president on Friday, August 7, in an unprecedented inauguration ceremony held outside the capital Bogotá, with the formal transfer of power taking place at the Arena of the Universidad Santiago de Cali (USC) before the new president delivers his first address to the nation from

Eight kilometres beyond the whitewashed streets and polished boutiques of Villa de Leyva, the traffic fades into birdsong and the landscape begins to exhale. The road winds through vineyards, olive groves, patchwork fields and ochre hills before arriving at one of Colombia’s most quietly extraordinary places: the Monastery of Santo Ecce Homo in […]