The Vice President of Colombia, José Manuel Restrepo, highlighted this Wednesday that “in the midst of the tragedy” caused by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that shook the west and center of the country, there have been numerous displays of solidarity and up to a dozen countries have offered to collaborate in various ways.
“The international community has spoken out very positively with Colombia (…) we have already received proposals from multilateral organizations for 1.3 billion dollars in various types of cooperation amid this tragedy,” he reported through a video published on his social networks.
“Sweden, Turkey, the United States, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Switzerland, among others, have expressed their willingness to support us with international support teams to manage the tragedy, but also with humanitarian aid, in money,” he revealed.
Restrepo specified the 15 million dollars in aid that the United States has committed to help at this time. Meanwhile, the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, confirmed this Wednesday that “the first plane is already on its way to Colombia with the first 51 tons of humanitarian aid.”
This is one of two planes with a total of one hundred tons of humanitarian aid that the Salvadoran state has promised to send to Colombia which, as Bukele explained, has only required this type of supplies “to attend to the families affected by the earthquake.”
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“They have informed us that their rescue teams, doctors, and other emergency bodies are deployed and attending to the situation, so at this moment, they do not require personnel support,” Bukele stated.
In Mexico, in recent hours the Minister of Defense, Ricardo Trevilla, has reported that by instruction of the President, Claudia Sheinbaum, a detachment of military personnel has been formed, “very similar to the one that supported Venezuela” during the last earthquake as well, along with tons of medicines, food, and equipment.
The 7.4 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale recorded this Monday in the municipality of San José del Palmar, in northwest Colombia, has so far left 181 dead and 2,595 injured, according to the latest report offered by President Abelardo De La Espriella.
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