President Abelardo de la Espriella presents a package of legal provisions granting exceptional powers to local authorities to respond to the emergency
After the death of their mother, the young woman refuses to have the children taken care of by a father who abandoned them. “They don’t want to,” she says
Two weeks after the earthquake that left more than 300 dead in the northwest of the country, a new earthquake with an epicenter in Santander is felt even in Bogotá, where several buildings have been ordered to be evacuated
Hundreds of people face a new forced displacement, this time due to the earthquake that destroyed thousands of homes and left more than 300 dead
The Government has announced financial support for families who lost their homes or whose houses became uninhabitable, as well as rental subsidies
Several of the volunteers who lent their hands to dig through the rubble were people from vulnerable neighborhoods who did not have rescue equipment or uniforms
With the same logic that argues that taxes on the rich are a kind of punishment for success, it could be said that taxes on the poor are a punishment for structural poverty
The process of rebirth for Colombia after the earthquake must become a huge opportunity to unite around a single purpose
The search operations in Cali and Pereira, two of the cities most affected by the earthquake, are accused of having ignored signs of possible survivors under the rubble
A special and temporary entity, which operated hand in hand with NGOs and as a parallel State, was fundamental in rebuilding the Coffee Axis after the 1999 earthquake