Luis Fajardo
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404 appearances
21 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 29 Aug
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They're facing a lot of disruption in their everyday life.
Energy shortages are leading to big power outages, very frequent across the country.
There are shortages of basic goods, and there's a sense of serious economic deterioration, inflation, all kinds of things.
And besides a traditional escape valve for the island, which was immigration to the US, of course, it is much, much more
More restricted nowadays.
So, all in all, a very difficult situation for Cubans trying to withstand this economic pressure by the US.
Well, the United States, particularly the Trump administration, has been saying that they want political change in the island.
And specifically in Miami, where I am based, of course, many people think and hope that this time they would manage to do it.
There's been a lot of speculation in the media that the US was trying to look for a Venezuelan type scenario where someone in the Cuban administration would agree
For a takeover with the US and cooperate somehow with the US.
This is a government that has been extremely resilient over the decades.
Many, many different US governments have tried to change the political situation in Cuba and have failed.
So it is very difficult just to assume that this time they're going to be successful.
People in Miami say that very few times Cuba has faced such a harsh economic crisis.
But again, this is a government that has gone through a lot, that has withstood a lot of pressure, and it is very hard to discount.
The rescue crews have been working throughout the night as they try to find new survivors, particularly in the large cities of Cali, Manizales and Pereira, which have been some of the hardest hit. The city of Cali, which is the third largest in Colombia, a metropolitan area of around 3 million people, has been under curfew as the mayor warned that there could be looting and other incidents as a result of the
widespread disruption this earthquake has caused. And of course, people throughout the country are waiting to see what these search and rescue operations result. I mean, usually it is said that the first 48 hours or so after an earthquake are crucial to find survivors still under the rubble. And there certainly is hope that some more people will be found alive.
And other countries have been sending in rescue teams, including Venezuela, which itself saw powerful earthquakes just a couple of months ago. Yes, a lot of people have been making the comparison with Venezuela, which, as you say, experienced an earthquake of similar intensity. Also, people are mentioning that the death toll in Venezuela, apparently until now, was substantially larger than the one in Colombia, in Venezuela, in the thousands.
While in Colombia, it still seems to be in the hundreds. People are making the comparison, both in Colombia and Venezuela. They're saying that building codes in Colombia were stronger. And because of that, very, very strong earthquake in Colombia, which caused the destruction of a lot of buildings, but not at the same scale as in Venezuela. And also, the initial reports are that the response from the authorities was
has been rather more effective in Colombia than was the case in Venezuela. In the Venezuelan case, there was a lot of criticism of the government, people saying that there was little or no response from authorities, as people were desperate to try to get the survivors out of the rubble, while in Colombia, until now, there has been more of a sense that the government is reacting
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