Will Chalk
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5,151 appearances
36 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
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And getting there by road, the roads are limited because it's very...
geographically difficult area surrounded by mountains.
So it hasn't been easy for the media to get there.
It hasn't been easy for the rescue teams to get there.
So getting the full picture is difficult now.
And when all these factors start to become more clear, people are fearing that the death toll can be higher.
Yeah, and fresh in everyone's minds will be what happened in Venezuela earlier this year as well.
Yes, because, well, firstly, because it's closed and there are many human and cultural connections between Venezuela and Colombia.
There are many Venezuelans living here.
And it was very recent, that traumatic event in Venezuela that is still affecting the people on the ground.
For now, the two situations are not comparable when it comes to the magnitude.
First of all, because Colombia hasn't been suffering the same economic crisis that Venezuela has over the last decade.
So, let's say that the infrastructure and the rescue teams are better prepared to respond to these sort of situations.
And also, because of the
The conditions because of the features of the earthquake, they are not the same.
It was in Venezuela.
It was a twin earthquake with many aftershocks.
Those aftershocks haven't been felt in the same way in Colombia, having more than 100 dead people.
It's a serious situation, though it's not expected to reach the level of thousands, more than 6,000 that Venezuela has already.
Jose Carlos Coeto there from BBC Mundo, speaking to me from the Colombian capital, Bogota.
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