Colombia Denies Rejecting Quake Help on Ideological ...
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The emergency in Colombia forces us to recall an uncomfortable truth: from its inception, humanitarian aid has sought to advance ideological interests. In the De la Espriella administration, there is a clear bias in favor of the United States and Israel.
The earthquake hits Colombia in the middle of a change of power. And the new President De la Espriella apparently also votes disaster aid on his foreign policy preference.
The president ultra prioritizes the help of ideologically related countries such as the United States, Ecuador, Israel or El SalvadorA couple hugged under the rubble and hours of rescues in one of the cities hit most by the earthquake Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed on Thursday what was already a suspicion: the military rescue contingent sent by Mexico could not deploy in Colombia. The administrative gate slows down the aid in a we…
The 7.4 magnitude earthquake leaves 281 dead, more than 3,900 injured and almost 45,000 families affected, while the Abelardo de la Espriella government faces its first big test between reconstruction, replicas and controversy by Mexican rescuers.
The last thing Colombia lacked was an earthquake. Abelardo de la Espriella assumed a week ago the presidency of a country with an armed conflict of more than 60 years, aggravated in the last four by the advance of terrorism; an extreme political division; and an economy that is a time bomb for one of the largest fiscal deficits in Latin America.As if that were not enough, the most devastating earthquake in decades shook the coffee axis when De l…
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