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 eart...

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 ...

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 Ameri...

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 ambassad...

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 appeare...

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 ...

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 ag...

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, loc...

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...

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 ...