The intense winter leaves a missing person in Valle del Cauca. This is Dennis López Castañeda, a 40-year-old woman who fell into the Jordan River, in the sector known as ‘La Karina’.
The woman is wanted by relief agencies, upstream of the Jordan River.
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On the other hand, the districts of Villacarmelo and La Buitrera, in Cali, are the most affected by the intense rains. Landslides have generated several emergencies.
The Infrastructure Secretariat of Cali informed that through the operational group they attended to emergencies generated by landslides that affected mobility in the aforementioned districts. There are no injured people. The community has helped the task force.
The Secretary of Infrastructure, Néstor Martínez Sandoval, affirmed that in the sector of La Candelaria, in Villacarmelo, landslides were removed in tertiary roads.
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Given the increase in rainfall, the Mayor’s Office of Cali convened a risk management council and activated all the capacities of the different district organizations and relief, through an Emergency and Contingency Plan to prevent risks due to rainfall in the capital of Valle del Cauca.
“We made this extraordinary advice because an unusual rainy season is coming. The La Niña Phenomenon is added to the daily season every year, between March, April and May, and we will have 30% more rainfall. In this sense, next Wednesday, at 8:00 in the morning, we will have a district risk management council with the intention of being able to carry out all the actions that prevent landslides, floods or situations that generate danger to life, dignity and heritage. That is the objective of this meeting,” said Mayor Jorge Iván Ospina Gómez.
In the department, according to the Department of Disaster Risk Management of the Government of Valle del Cauca, the effects of the rains are monitored in rural areas of Palmira, Caicedonia, El Cerrito, Buga, Ginebra and Dagua. In Buga there is a movement of earth and stones, which leaves several families affected.
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The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.
But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her into mental health and addiction services. Instead, she was released over the pleas of loved ones and a tribal police chief.
The 33-year-old college graduate — an accomplished traditional dancer with ancestry from three area tribes — was last seen soon after, walking across a bridge near a place marked End of Road, a far corner of the Yurok Reservation where the rutted pavement dissolves into thick woods.
In this aerial image taken from a drone, a pedestrian walks near End of Road on Jan. 19, 2022, where Emmilee Risling was last seen before going missing in October 2021, in Klamath, Calif.
Her disappearance is one of five instances in the past 18 months where Indigenous women have gone missing or been killed in this isolated expanse of Pacific coastline between San Francisco and Oregon, a region where the Yurok, Hupa, Karuk, Tolowa and Wiyot people have coexisted for millennia. Two other women died from what authorities say were overdoses despite relatives’ questions about severe bruises.
The crisis has spurred the Yurok Tribe to issue an emergency declaration and brought increased urgency to efforts to build California’s first database of such cases and regain sovereignty over key services.
“I came to this issue as both a researcher and a learner, but just in this last year, I knew three of the women who have gone missing or were murdered — and we shared so much in common,” said Blythe George, a Yurok tribal member who consults on a project documenting the problem. “You can’t help but see yourself in those people.”
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke visits the last confirmed location on Jan. 19, 2022, where Emmilee Risling was seen before going missing in October 2021, in Klamath, Calif.
The recent cases spotlight an epidemic that is difficult to quantify but has long disproportionately plagued Native Americans.
A 2021 report by a government watchdog found the true number of missing and murdered Indigenous women is unknown due to reporting problems, distrust of law enforcement and jurisdictional conflicts. But Native women face murder rates almost three times those of white women overall — and up to 10 times the national average in certain locations, according to a 2021 summary of the existing research by the National Congress of American Indians. More than 80% have experienced violence.
In this area peppered with illegal marijuana farms and defined by wilderness, almost everyone knows someone who has vanished.
Missing person posters flutter from gas station doors and road signs. Even the tribal police chief isn’t untouched: He took in the daughter of one missing woman, and Emmilee — an enrolled Hoopa Valley tribal member with Yurok and Karuk blood — babysat his children.
In California alone, the Yurok Tribe and the Sovereign Bodies Institute, an Indigenous-run research and advocacy group, uncovered 18 cases of missing or slain Native American women in roughly the past year — a number they consider a vast undercount. An estimated 62% of those cases are not listed in state or federal databases for missing persons.
Hupa citizen Brandice Davis attended school with the daughters of a woman who disappeared in 1991 and now has daughters of her own, ages 9 and 13.
“Here, we’re all related, in a sense,” she said of the place where many families are connected by marriage or community ties.
She cautions her daughters about what it means to be female, Native American and growing up on a reservation: “You’re a statistic. But we have to keep going. We have to show people we’re still here.”
Maile Kane, 13, walks with her grandmother’s dog, Charlie, outside her family’s home on Jan. 20, 2022, in Hoopa, Calif. The girl’s mother, Brandice Davis, said she grew up with Emmilee Risling and worries about the safety of her own daughters.
Like countless cases involving Indigenous women, Emmilee’s disappearance has gotten no attention from the outside world.
But many here see in her story the ugly intersection of generations of trauma inflicted on Native Americans by their white colonizers, the marginalization of Native peoples and tribal law enforcement’s lack of authority over many crimes committed on their land.
Virtually all of the area’s Indigenous residents, including Emmilee, have ancestors who were shipped to boarding schools as children and forced to give up their language and culture as part of a federal assimilation campaign. Further back, Yurok people spent years away from home as indentured servants for colonizers, said Judge Abby Abinanti, the tribe’s chief judge.
The trauma caused by those removals echoes among the Yurok in the form of drug abuse and domestic violence, which trickles down to the youth, she said. About 110 Yurok children are in foster care.
“You say, ‘OK, how did we get to this situation where we’re losing our children?'” said Abinanti. “There were big gaps in knowledge, including parenting, and generationally those play out.”
An analysis of cases by the Yurok and Sovereign Bodies found most of the region’s missing women had either been in foster care themselves or had children taken from them by the state. An analysis of jail bookings also showed Yurok citizens in the two-county region are 11 times more likely to go to jail in a given year — and half those arrested are female, usually for low-level crimes. That’s an arrest rate for Yurok women roughly five times the rate of female incarcerations nationwide, said George, the University of California, Merced sociologist consulting with the tribe.
The Yurok run a tribal wellness court for addiction and operate one of the country’s only state-certified tribal domestic violence perpetrator programs. They also recently hired a tribal prosecutor, another step toward building an Indigenous justice system that would ultimately handle all but the most serious felonies.
The Yurok also are working to reclaim supervision over foster care and hope to transfer their first foster family from state court within months, said Jessica Carter, the Yurok Tribal Court director. A tribal-run guardianship court follows another 50 children who live with relatives.
The long-term plan — mostly funded by grants — is a massive undertaking that will take years to accomplish, but the Yurok see regaining sovereignty over these systems as the only way to end the cycle of loss that’s taken the greatest toll on their women.
“If we are successful, we can use that as a gift to other tribes to say, ‘Here’s the steps we took,'” said Rosemary Deck, the newly hired tribal prosecutor. “‘You can take this as a blueprint and assert your own sovereignty.'”
Mary Risling looks at dancing regalia that had been used by her missing sister Emmilee Risling at their family home on Jan. 21, 2022, in McKinleyville, Calif.
Emmilee was born into a prominent Native family, and a bright future beckoned.
Starting at a young age, she was groomed to one day lead the intricate dances that knit the modern-day people to generations of tradition nearly broken by colonization. Her family, a “dance family,” has the rare distinction of owning enough regalia that it can outfit the brush, jump and flower dances without borrowing a single piece.
At 15, Emmilee paraded down the National Mall with other tribal members at the opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. The Washington Post published a front-page photo of her in a Karuk dress of dried bear grass, a woven basket cap and a white leather sash adorned with Pileated woodpecker scalps.
In this 2014 photo provided by Gary Risling, Emmilee Risling, right, poses after her graduation from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Ore., with her great-aunt and adoptive grandmother Viola Risling-Ryerson.
The straight-A student earned a scholarship to the University of Oregon, where she helped lead a prominent Native students’ group. Her success, however, was darkened by the first sign of trouble: an abusive relationship with a Native man whom, her mother believes, she felt she could save through her positive influence.
Later, Emmilee dated another man, became pregnant and returned home to have the baby before finishing her degree.
She then worked with disadvantaged Native families and eventually got accepted into a master’s program. She helped coach her son’s T-ball team and signed him up for swim lessons.
But over time, her family says, they noticed changes.
Emmilee was uncharacteristically tardy for work and grew more combative. She often dropped off her son with family, and she fell in with another abusive boyfriend. Her son was removed from her care when he was 5; a girl born in 2020 was taken away as a newborn as Emmilee’s behavior deteriorated.
Her parents remain bewildered by her rapid decline and think she developed a mental illness — possibly postpartum psychosis — compounded by drugs and the trauma of domestic abuse. At first, she would see a doctor or therapist at her family’s insistence but eventually rebuffed all help.
In this Dec. 2020, photo provided by Mary Risling, missing woman Emmilee Risling is seen holding her infant daughter at a home in California. The 33-year-old college graduate with ancestry from three tribes was last seen more than four months ago on the
After her daughter’s birth, Emmilee spiraled rapidly, “like a light switched,” and she began to let go of the Native identity that had been her defining force, said her sister, Mary.
“That was her life, and when you let that go, when you don’t have your kids … what are you?” she said.
In the months before she vanished, Emmilee was frequently seen walking naked in public, talking to herself. She was picked up many times by sheriff’s deputies and tribal police but never charged.
The only in-patient psychiatric facility within 300 miles (480 kilometers) was always too full to admit her. Once, she was taken to the emergency room and fled barefoot in her hospital gown.
“People tended to look the other way. They didn’t really help her. In less than 24 hours, she was just back on the street, literally on the street,” said Judy Risling, her mother. “There were just no services for her.”
In September, Emmilee was arrested after she was found dancing around a small fire in the Hoopa Valley Reservation cemetery.
Then-Hoopa Valley Tribal Police Chief Bob Kane appeared in a Humboldt County court by video and explained her repeated police contacts and mental health problems. Emmilee mumbled during the hearing then shouted out that she didn’t set the fire.
She was released with an order to appear again in 12 days after her public defender argued she had no criminal convictions and the court couldn’t hold her on the basis of her mental health.
Then, Emmilee disappeared.
“We had predicted that something like this may … happen in the future,” said Kane. “And you know, now we’re here.”
If Emmilee fell through the cracks before she went missing, she has become even more invisible in her absence.
One of the biggest hurdles in Indian Country once a woman is reported missing is unraveling a confusing jumble of federal, state, local and tribal agencies that must coordinate. Poor communication and oversights can result in overlooked evidence or delayed investigations.
The problem is more acute in rural regions like the one where Emmilee disappeared, said Abigail Echo-Hawk, citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute in Seattle.
“Particularly in reservations and in village areas, there is a maze of jurisdictions, of policies, of procedures of who investigates what,” she said.
Moreover, many cases aren’t logged in federal missing persons databases, and medical examiners sometimes misclassify Native women as white or Asian, said Gretta Goodwin, of the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s homeland security and justice team.
Recent efforts at the state and federal level seek to address what advocates say have been decades of neglect regarding missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Former President Donald Trump signed a bill that required federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement agencies to create or update their protocols for handling such cases. And in November, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to set up guidelines between the federal government and tribal police that would help track, solve and prevent crimes against all Native Americans.
A number of states, including California, Oregon, Washington and Arizona, are also taking on the crisis with greater funding to tribes, studies of the problem or proposals to create Amber Alert-style notifications.
Emmilee’s case illustrates some of the challenges. She was a citizen of the Hoopa Valley Tribe and was arrested on its reservation, but she is presumed missing on the neighboring Yurok Tribe’s reservation.
The Yurok police are in charge of the missing persons probe, but the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office will decide when to declare the case cold, which could trigger federal help.
The remote terrain where Emmilee was last seen — two hours from the nearest town — created hurdles common on reservations.
A dog walks along End of Road on Jan. 19, 2022, where police received and investigated reports of Emmilee Risling staying before her disappearance in October 2021, on the Yurok Reservation, Calif.
Law enforcement determined there wasn’t enough information to launch a formal search and rescue operation in such a vast, mountainous area. The Yurok police opted to forgo their own search because of liability concerns and a lack of training, said Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke.
Instead, Yurok and Hoopa Valley police and sheriff’s deputies plied the rain-swollen Klamath River by boat and drove back roads.
Emmilee’s father, Gary Risling, says the sheriff’s office failed to act on anonymous tips, was slow to follow up on possible sightings and focused more resources on other missing person’s cases, including a wayward hunter and a kayaker lost at sea.
“I don’t want to seem like I’m picking on them, but that effort is sure not put forward when it becomes a missing Indian woman,” he said.
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal declined interview requests, saying the Yurok are in charge and there are no signs of foul play. O’Rourke said the tips aren’t enough for a search warrant and there’s nothing further the tribal police can do.
The police chief, who knew Emmilee well, says his work is frequently stymied by a broader system that discounts tribal sovereignty.
“The role of police is protect the vulnerable. As tribal police, we’re doing that in a system that’s broken,” he said. “I think that is the reason that Native women get all but dismissed.”
Emmilee’s family, meanwhile, is struggling to shield her children, now 10 and almost 2, from the trauma of their mother’s disappearance — trauma they worry could trigger another generational cycle of loss.
The boy has been having nightmares and recently spoke everyone’s worst fear.
“It’s real difficult when you deal with the grandkids, and the grandkid says, ‘Grandpa, can you take me down the river and can we look for my mama?’ What do you tell him? ‘We’re looking, we’re looking every day,'” said Gary Risling, choking back tears.
“And then he says, ‘What happens if we can’t find her?'”
After the avalanche caused on Friday afternoon by the strong winter in the municipality of San Pablo, north of Nariño, The relief agencies restarted in the early hours of this Saturday the search for a minor who has been missing since Friday afternoon.
One of the many videos recorded in the winter emergency registered in this town with 13,000 inhabitants, shows the moment in which the father of the 8-year-old girl carries her and then enters her into the vehicle, but moments later the car is dragged by the strong current, amid the screams and cries of their relatives and neighbors.
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The mayor of the municipality, Ricardo Emiro Gómez Lasso, when presenting a first assessment of the emergency caused by the overflow of the La Brisa creek, confirmed the unfortunate fact.
“We regret the disappearance of an 8-year-old girl, it is the most negative and disastrous balance of this situation,” he said, adding that relief entities such as Civil Defense and the Volunteer Fire Department are in the continuous search for the minor.
According to the official’s explanation, “the La Brisa creek was dammed at some point along its route and later comes loaded with a large amount of plant material, rocks and mud and reaches the Provivienda, Balcones del Mayo, Villa Cristina, Los Samanes neighborhoods that They are the most affected.”
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More than 100 families that were affected were located in the covered coliseum of the Normal Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in said locality, where they spent their first night after the avalanche occurred.
We hope to make a census of the damage caused in this emergency, I appreciate the support of the mayors who have given us their support
The official stated that the material damage is substantial and that around 350 homes were seriously affected, while the aqueduct also suffered from the effects of winter.
“We hope to make a census of the damage caused in this emergency, I appreciate the support of the mayors who have given us their support with dump trucks and tank cars,” he said.
Starting at 8 am today in San Pablo, the Governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas, installed the Unified Command Post, accompanied by members of the Municipal Risk Management Council and the National and Departmental Risk Management Unit, as well as representatives of the Municipal Mayor’s Office, National Police and relief agencies.
The sectional president reported that in addition to San Pablo, the municipalities of Los Andes, Santacruz and Túquerres are experiencing a delicate situation as a result of the winter wave and maintained that “from the Government of Nariño we coordinate actions to assist the affected families.”
Other emergencies attended
Regarding the other emergencies caused by the winter that the authorities are attending, it was indicated that in the municipality of Santacruz there was a landslide on the road that leads from the urban area to the Balalaica village, for which the passage of vehicles was enabled. for a single lane.
Meanwhile, in the municipality of Los Andes, a landslide was also registered in the Travesía Alta village, which so far has left 22 families affected and the closure of the road that connects the head with the Carrizal village.
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In Túquerres, another large landslide was reported on the road that leads from Junín to El Pedregal, where there is restricted passage of vehicles in a single lane.
Another of the roads affected in the department is the one that joins the municipalities of Túquerres with Samaniego, where at kilometer 5+400 there was a landslide that for several hours prevented the passage of all kinds of vehicles.
The U.S. Coast Guard in New Orleans says it discontinued the search for a woman who reportedly jumped from a cruise ship into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday.
In statement late Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans said rescue crews searched a large area for 14 hours before halting the operation.
The statement said the search began after the office received a call Wednesday reporting a 32-year-old woman on the Carnival Valor cruise ship had gone overboard about 240 kilometers off the coast of southern U.S. state of Louisiana.
The Coast Guard said it dispatched rescue crews and that an airplane continued searches Thursday.
According to a New Orleans television station, passengers said the missing woman had been involved in an altercation that required ship security to be called. Video taken at the scene and obtained by the station show the woman being led away by security from the ship’s pool area shortly before she apparently jumped.
Witnesses said she jumped from approximately 10 stories above the water and that a life preserver had been thrown to her.
Video and pictures posted on social media showed a life preserver floating in the water behind the ship.
A spokesman for the south Florida-based cruise line said it initiated search and rescue procedures before the vessel arrived at its home port of New Orleans Thursday morning, concluding a five-day cruise. The spokesman said the cruise line is providing support to the guest’s husband, who was traveling with her, as well as her family.
Some information for this report was provided by the Associated Press
The Unit for the Search of Persons Considered Missing -UBPD- recovered eight unidentified bodies in the cemetery from the municipality of Urrao, southwest Antioquia, which could correspond to persons who disappeared in the context of the armed conflict between 2009 and 2011.
During the humanitarian action, in which the semicircular gallery of the cemetery was intervened, relatives of the victims, the San José de Urrao parish, the municipal hospital and signatories of the Peace Agreement participated to provide relevant information for the search.
“These humanitarian actions -which include the collection and analysis of information; the recovery of the bodies, the participation of the victims and the promotion of their identification- aim to contribute to the satisfaction of the right to the truth about the fate and whereabouts of the disappeared persons of the armed conflict, and to the reparation of the people who are looking for them ”, added Luz Marina Monzón Cifuentes, director of the Search Unit.
As part of the extrajudicial investigation of this intervention, starting in May 2021, the UBPD conducted interviews with information contributors and accessed files and autopsies, as well as burial and death records, in which decisive data was recorded for the investigation. search for the disappeared persons, including the dates of entry of the bodies to the cemetery and physical characteristics of the victims.
The entity reported that from the crossing and analysis of the information it was possible to establish the identity hypotheses of five of the bodies, one of which would correspond, according to its biological characteristics, to a female person who died in 2010. The ages of the victims ranged in age from 20 to 35 at the time of their deaths.
The bodies of the victims had signs of violence, mainly multiple fractures that correspond to possible wounds caused by a firearm projectile. This information was recorded in the autopsy records and some of the characteristics were verified by the UBPD during the recovery of the bodies.
For now, the bone structures were made available to the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences for identification.
“What many families are interested in is having their loved ones, burying them, knowing where they are, where they can put a tombstone and some flowers. And from now on I am going to help as much as I can to contribute to the search for people who are still missing and who may be in this cemetery, ”said the gravedigger of the San José de Urrao cemetery garden, who asked to keep her name. in reserve.
This search is part of the Regional Plan for the Center of Antioquia – southwest chapter – which is being built by the UBPD together with organizations and people who are searching – which includes a universe under construction of 1,624 missing persons and at least 231 correspond to the municipality of Urrao.
Authorities confirmed that the body found on Sunday, February 13 in the Medellín River corresponds to Érika Péreza 37-year-old woman who had been missing for seven days, according to her family and friends.
Érika Shirley Pérez had disappeared on February 7 in the city of Medellín, after leaving her job as a stylist in the Villa Hermosa sector.
According to the local newspaper ‘El Colombiano’, Érika left her workplace with two people, tried to take the Metro, but since the station in the area was already closed, decided to take a vehicle for an application to get home.
“We have been told that the boy (one of the two people with whom she was sharing) accompanied her to the Metro, but at that time the station was already closed. They say that she asked for a Didi, but the company replies that she has not used that service since last year”, narrated a relative of Érika to the quoted newspaper.
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Érika’s relatives and acquaintances undertook a search process to find her whereabouts. They spread posters with her photograph and her contact information on social networks and searched for her day and night in the city of Medellin.
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With great sadness, they confirm that Erika appeared lifeless. Thanks to those who shared the information. pic.twitter.com/cTI426g9gH
On February 10, his acquaintances also advanced a sit-in asking for his return home.
Erika’s body was finally found this Sunday, February 13after 7 days disappeared, in the Medellin River near the municipality of Barbosa.
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Residents of the area identified a body and, after the inspection of Legal Medicine and the CTI, it was determined that it was the body of the 37-year-old woman.
Erika Pérez was the head of the family. She was in charge of supporting her son, her mother and a brother, according to the newspaper ‘El Colombiano’.
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One of the three pending challenges that the Ituango hydroelectric project has for the first power generation unit to come into operation on July 26 of this year had a new advance recently, after the visit of the National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA).
The technical team of the National Authority for Environmental Licenses, from February 7 to 11, made the control and follow-up visit to this project and validated that EPM is taking the pertinent actions to overcome the contingency that occurred in 2018.
The ANLA visited the works in general, the powerhouse, the left and right margins of the landfill, the reservoir, the monitoring center and other sites of interest, in order to carry out the analysis and verification of the information presented in the report. the Chilean company Pöyry.
Although the environmental authority did not say more about the visit, it did announce that its technical team will continue with the analysis of the document and recalled that the ANLA makes pronouncements through administrative acts.
This is considered progress in one of the challenges of the project, which is to recover the environmental license with the Pöyry report, which was requested in 2018 by the ANLA as an expert opinion on the stability conditions of Hidroituango.
The report was delivered at the end of December 2021 and it depends on it that the environmental authority lift Resolution 820 so that the project can be continue with the works other than those exclusive to the contingency.
Hidroituango power cables. Each one has a diameter of 13.3 centimeters and can reach 600 meters.
Due to the pandemic, the visits of the international experts could not be carried out, so the report had a delay of approximately a year and a half to be delivered.
Jorge Andrés Carrillo -general manager of EPM- indicated in January that it will be the Anla, within the framework of its powers, that must inform, communicate or require everything related to said report on the current stability of the project and the operation of the future generation center.
“Due to the pandemic, the visits of the international experts could not be carried out, so the report had a delay of approximately a year and a half to be delivered. This is an opinion and not a root cause study of what happened in the contingencyCarrillo clarified.
The manager clarified that the start-up of Hidroituango depends on the recovery of said environmental license.
Panoramic view of Hidroituango.
Precisely, this report warns about the risk of the landfill, which is still in operation and is a work that it is not made to be in constant operation.
In this regard, EPM indicated that this is their main concern and made it clear that the only option to evacuate the water, other than the landfill, is through the generation units, that is, for Hidroituango to start operating.
The other two earrings
The first major challenge is the auxiliary diversion gallery, which was plugged in 2018 and caused the current contingency.
William Giraldo, Vice President of Power Generation Projects at EPM, explained that in 2019, as a result of this contingency, the two gates installed in this gallery, weighing 300 tons each, were closed to prevent the passage of water.
Hidroituango power house.
With the pumping of the water that was in this area, it was possible to enter sufficient personnel and machinery to carry out the proper cleaning and removal of debris and mud.
In the last days of January “it was possible to enter the auxiliary diversion gallery (GAD), a very positive fact for the recovery of the project and for the tranquility of the communities located downstream. With the pumping of the water that was in this It was possible to enter the area with sufficient personnel and machinery to carry out the proper cleaning and removal of debris and mud,” Giraldo said.
The other challenge to start operating is that the powerhouse, the ‘heart of Hidroituango’, which was flooded for 271 days, is adequate.
Currently, work is underway to put the first two generation units into service, in July and October of this year.
“The civil works of the first generation unit have already been completed and work has begun on the installation of electromechanical equipment and the control and installation of all auxiliary services. In the generation 2 unit, the emptying of the remaining concrete is carried out. It is estimated that in a month it would be reaching level 217, the same level where unit 1 is located and where the work is leveled out so that it begins to operate in October,” Giraldo said.
The Colombian Navy located and recovered on the morning of this Tuesday four lifeless bodies in the Magdalena River, at the height of the municipality of Magangué (Bolívar), which correspond to three minors and one adult.
In Magangué, authorities and the community continue the incessant search for two more girls who have been missing since Sunday night, after two boats collided. Both boats had violated all safety regulations and were traveling without lighting, in the middle of the night. Passengers were not wearing life jackets.
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“Around 4:30 in the morning, search and rescue work resumed, like this, on the corregimiento of Tolu, very close to the place of the collision, the location and recovery of two bodies were achieved, corresponding to two minors. Then, 6 kilometers downstream, on the corregimiento of San Sebastian de Buena Vista, a third body was recovered, also a minor. Finally, in the Barbosa sector, 17 kilometers downstream from the point of collision, we managed to recover the body of an adult…”, said Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel David Melo Ramìrez.
Tragedy in the same family
The girls who died after the collision of the two boats they are Carolina Castro Muñoz, 4 years old; Yomadis Castro Muñoz, 8; Solangie Guzmán Retamoza, 10; Dioselin Muñoz Guerra, 10; and Marcela Muñoz Guerra, 13. The five minors are members of the same family. In addition to the girls, the body of 23-year-old Vinson Barranco was found dead.
Boat was traveling without lighting and passengers without life jackets
“The search and rescue activities are concentrated from kilometer 0 to kilometer 8, linking three vessels of the municipal administration in which the Civil Defense and the Red Cross. In addition, it has the support of 14 canoes belonging to fishermen in the region,” reported the The national army.
Nelviz Gutiérrez, mother of Vinson Barranco, recounted that they were returning to their town on the Magdalena River, but in the dark of the night they did not see the other boat. The woman said that the fury of the water dragged her several meters while I heard people’s cries for help.
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However, 12 of the 18 passengers managed to swim to shore. But the current of the river and the darkness of the night swallowed the five children of the Muñoz family and the young Barranco, who lived in Barranquilla and had reached Magangue to visit his mother.
This is the fishing boat ‘El Cipriano’, which would have collided with that of the 18 travelers and caused the tragedy.
There are two fishermen captured by the accident
A few hours after the accident, and already with daylight, the authorities located two fishermen, hidden in a house in the corregimiento of Toluwho apparently would be the crew of the boat driver identified as The Cyprianwhich -loaded with groceries- was involved in the collision on the night of February 6. The two fishermen were captured and they are identified as responsible for the crash against the boat where 18 people were traveling between the corregimientos of San Sebastián del Coyonal and Buena Vista, municipality of Magangué.
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“With the use of slings and artisanal means used by the fishermen of the region, it was possible to find the place where the boat named La Niña Natalia, where people were travelling, was sunken,” assured the National Navy.
“With the support of fishermen from the sector, it was possible to refloat the boat ‘La Niña Natalia’, during the maneuver no bodies were found on board the boat, the hypothesis of the presence of bodies trapped in the tent of the boat was handled, which was dragged by the current of the Magdalena River”, underline sources from the National Navy.
The vessel was towed to the San Sebastián de Buenavista sector, where it was placed at the disposal of the National Police.
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The Colombian Navy located and recovered on the morning of this Tuesday four lifeless bodies in the Magdalena River, at the height of the municipality of Magangué (Bolívar), which correspond to three minors and one adult.
In Magangué, authorities and the community maintain the incessant search for the boy who has been missing since Sunday night, after two boats collided. Both boats had violated all safety regulations and were traveling without lighting, in the middle of the night. Passengers were not wearing life jackets.
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“Around 4:30 in the morning, search and rescue work resumed, like this, on the corregimiento of Tolu, very close to the place of the collision, the location and recovery of two bodies were achieved, corresponding to two minors. Then, 6 kilometers downstream, on the corregimiento of San Sebastian de Buena Vista, a third body was recovered, also of a minor. Finally, in the Barbosa sector, 17 kilometers downstream from the point of collision, we managed to recover the body of an adult…”, said Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel David Melo Ramìrez.
Tragedy in the same family
The children who died after the collision of the two boats they are Carolina Castro Muñoz, 4 years old; Yomadis Castro Muñoz, 8; Solangie Guzmán Retamoza, 10; Dioselin Muñoz Guerra, 10; and Marcela Muñoz Guerra, 13. The five minors are members of the same family. In addition to the children, the body of 23-year-old Vinson Barranco was found dead.
Boat was traveling without lighting and passengers without life jackets
“The search and rescue activities are concentrated from kilometer 0 to kilometer 8, linking three vessels of the municipal administration in which the Civil Defense and the Red Cross. In addition, it has the support of 14 canoes belonging to fishermen in the region,” reported the The national army.
Nelviz Gutiérrez, mother of Vinson Barranco, recounted that they were returning to their town on the Magdalena River, but in the dark of the night they did not see the other boat. The woman said that the fury of the water dragged her several meters while I heard people’s cries for help.
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However, 12 of the 18 passengers managed to swim to shore. But the current of the river and the darkness of the night swallowed the five children of the Muñoz family and the young Barranco, who lived in Barranquilla and had reached Magangue to visit his mother.
This is the fishing boat ‘El Cipriano’, which would have collided with that of the 18 travelers and caused the tragedy.
There are two fishermen captured by the accident
A few hours after the accident, and already with daylight, the authorities located two fishermen, hidden in a house in the corregimiento of Toluwho apparently would be the crew of the boat driver identified as The Cyprianwhich -loaded with groceries- was involved in the collision on the night of February 6. The two fishermen were captured and they are identified as responsible for the crash against the boat where 18 people were traveling between the corregimientos of San Sebastián del Coyonal and Buena Vista, municipality of Magangué.
(Also: The letter of cultural and political leaders of Medellín against Quintero)
“With the use of slings and artisanal means used by the fishermen of the region, it was possible to find the place where the boat named La Niña Natalia, where people were travelling, was sunken,” assured the National Navy.
“With the support of fishermen from the sector, it was possible to refloat the boat ‘La Niña Natalia’, during the maneuver no bodies were found on board the boat, the hypothesis of the presence of bodies trapped in the tent of the boat was handled, which was dragged by the current of the Magdalena River”, underline sources from the National Navy.
The vessel was towed to the San Sebastián de Buenavista sector, where it was placed at the disposal of the National Police.
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At 10 p.m. Sunday, two boats full of passengers collided.
At 10 p.m. Sunday, two boats full of passengers collided.
Currents make rescues difficult in the Magdalena River, at the height of the municipality of Magangué.
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February 07, 2022, 10:18 AM
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The collision of two boats in the Magdalena River, in the vicinity of the corregimiento of Tolú, in the municipality of Magangué, leaves 6 people missing, including five minors.
The authorities in the region reported that, at 10 p.m. on Sunday, one of the boats full of passengers was returning from the San Sebastián del Coyonal festivities, in the Buena Vista district, municipality of Maganguewhen it collided head-on with another boat traveling in the opposite direction.
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Currents make rescues difficult
As a result of the collision, 16 people fell into the water, but 5 minors and one adult remain missing.
The Marine infantry reported that at midnight the search for the disappeared began, but the river in this area has several eddies; This has made search and rescue efforts difficult.
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The U.S. Coast Guard searched on Tuesday for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.
A good Samaritan called the Coast Guard early Tuesday after rescuing a man clinging to the boat 72 kilometers (45 miles) east of Fort Pierce, the maritime security agency reported on Twitter.
The man said he was with a group of 39 others who left the island of Bimini in the Bahamas on Saturday night. He said the boat capsized in severe weather and that no one was wearing life jackets.
The Coast Guard is calling it a suspected human smuggling case. Officials said on Twitter that they are searching by air and sea over a roughly 218-kilometer (135-mile) area extending from Bimini to the Fort Pierce Inlet.
A cold front late Saturday brought rough weather to the Bimini area. Tommy Sewell, a local bonefishing guide, said there were 32 kph (20 mph) winds and fierce squalls of rain on Sunday into Monday.
Migrants have long used the islands of the Bahamas as a steppingstone to reach Florida and the United States. They typically try to take advantage of breaks in the weather to make the crossing, but the vessels are often dangerously overloaded and prone to capsizing. There have been thousands of deaths over the years.
The Coast Guard patrols the waters around Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and the Bahamas.
For the most part, the migrants are from Haiti and Cuba, but the Royal Bahamas Defense Force has reported apprehending migrants from other parts of the world, including from Colombia and Ecuador earlier this month.
On Friday, the Coast Guard found 88 Haitians in an overloaded sail freighter west of Great Inagua, Bahamas.
“Navigating the Florida straits, Windward and Mona Passages … is extremely dangerous and can result in loss of life,” the Coast Guard said in a statement last weekend.
Last July, the Coast Guard rescued 13 people after their boat capsized off Key West as Tropical Storm Elsa approached.
The survivors said they had left Cuba with 22 people aboard. Nine went missing in the water.
