US EditionA Landscape of Loss: Forty Years After Armero
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On November 13, 1985, Colombia did not finish knowing the dimension of the Holocaust of the Palace of Justice. It did not even know how many people had died or who they were. It began to speculate that some had come out alive and that they had subsequently been executed. The images were dramatic: burnt bodies, the building in ruins, dyed with ash and an indescribable mixture of water and blood.
On Wednesday, November 13, 1985, Colombia experienced one of the most disastrous natural tragedies in its history. The avalanche of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz swept away with mud, lava, stones and residues that buried Armero, causing death and disappearance [...] The entrance Between weeds and rubble: this is how Armero looks, 40 years after the tragic avalanche was first published in Tropicana Colombia.
A Landscape of Loss: Forty Years After Armero
Forty years after the catastrophe that erased Armero from the map, the landscape where the town once stood has taken on the quiet, uncanny stillness of an eroded manuscript. Vegetation has woven itself into the skeletal remains of walls and foundations, reclaiming what the earth so violently seized on the night of November 13, 1985. A visitor walking through the overgrown grid of streets – once home to a thriving community of 30,000 – encounters…
More the participation of more than 500 artists, among music, dance and lyrics, will commemorate the 40 years of the tragedy of Armero, a real resistance against oblivion. A commemoration on 13 November in which will participate the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), the Colombian Geological Service (SGC), the Ministry of Cultures, the Government of Tolima and the Mayor's Office of Armero Guayabal. It may also interest you: http…
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