US EditionArmero: A Journalist Remembers the Night the Earth Turned to Mud
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There was a time when things were happening in front of the TV. There were no social networks, no streaming, no directs, nor were there a thousand almost simultaneous videos of the same event. Time was slower. That's why we were so impressed to see Omayra die.On November 13, 1985, Omayra Sánchez Garzón was 13 years old. That day in Colombia the Nevado del Ruiz volcano exploded. Her eruption swept through Armero, a town in the department of Tolim…
This Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano. A tragedy in which almost 25,000 people died, among them Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez, the biological father of Jenifer de la Ros a , who then counted only a week of life. The catastrophe left hundreds of orphaned children, many of whom were adopted by Colombian and also foreign families. Years later, the lack of clear management in adoptions prevented many of t…
Omayra Sánchez, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, was found by rescuers trapped in the rubble. The house she lived in with her family in the Colombian town of Armero was turned into a trap on the night of November 13-14, 1985. A mudflow - a lahar - caused by the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried her under concrete. The water and mud that gripped her reached up to her chin. She was wedged in and there was no way to help her. Rescuers could n…
Armero: A Journalist Remembers the Night the Earth Turned to Mud
On the night of November 12, 1985, at exactly 10 p.m., the landline rang. “Get ready – the radio car is coming for you,” warned the night controller at the main station of Todelar, the national radio chain where I had been working for about a year and a half. Just a week earlier, we had covered the M-19 guerrilla’s siege of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. Throughout the day, ash had been falling over areas far from the crater, and nervousness w…
This is the testimony of Pierre Marie Sarant, logistic coordinator of the entity, who supported rescue work forty years ago.
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