Chocó, Colombia, Faces Deeper Hardship After an Earthquake

Scritto il 18/08/2026
da Genevieve Glatsky and Federico Rios

In Chocó, a predominantly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous region, “pain, hunger and homelessness await” survivors of last week’s earthquake, the governor says.Soldiers and volunteers offloading aid supplies from a helicopter San José del Palmar, Colombia, a remote town close to the earthquake’s epicenter.