Winter continues to cause emergencies in Nariño - Other Cities - Colombia

A worker and an official were very close to being buried by a landslide caused by the strong winter, on the access road to the municipality of Santacruz, west of Nariño.

The incident occurred on the afternoon of this Saturday when a yellow machine was attending to a landslide and part of the mountain suddenly fell off, in the midst of fright for those who at that time were attending to the emergency caused by the prolonged winter wave that hits the entire the region.

(You can read: The Mayor of Cali declares the public calamity due to the intense winter)

The governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas Cabrera, reported that a machinist from the Governor’s Office and the planning secretary of the Mayor’s Office “They were devastated by an earth movement, thank God they are alive but I want to call the community to common sense and understanding because the rainy phenomenon has been coming since last year and will last until May.”

The machine with which he was working to clear the road that leads from the Balalaika sector in the municipality of Samaniego to the municipality of Santacruz was buried by the landslide.

Both the operator and the official had to be transferred to the hospital in the municipality of Túquerres, where they received medical attention.

According to the sectional president, it was necessary to make the decision to close the access road to the municipal seat of Guachavez to automobile traffic, “after analyzing the risks that the road presents and after new landslides that have occurred in the last few hours.”

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He also declared that “we will work with the Mayor’s Office and the community to enable alternate routes and thus the municipality is not left incommunicado.”

Meanwhile, the port of Tumaco is going to be completed in almost two days, isolated from the rest of the department of Nariño, due to a large landslide that occurred on Friday on the road to the sea, near the municipality of Mallama, where the secretary of Government, Bayron Oliva, pointed out that the machinery works to evacuate the tons of earth and stone, but as the rains continue it is believed that only this Sunday the passage of vehicles on the highway could be enabled.

The situation is aggravated for patients who are transferred in ambulances from the San Andrés Hospital in Tumaco to the city of Pasto.

According to the revelation of the Special Intervention Agent of the hospital center, Pedro Espitia, “it is an immense rock the size of a house that has fallen on the road, it is not easy to remove it, this affects the evacuation of our patients, here we have two ambulances who have not been able to pass and we have two patients who require an immediate evacuation due to their health situation.”

Two houses destroyed

During the early hours of this Saturday, the winter also destroyed two houses when they were buried by a landslide, registered in the sector known as Pachindo, on the road that leads from the municipality of La Florida to the town of Sandoná, west of Nariño, where the authorities reported that two people were injured with head trauma. Mobility along the highway was suspended until the total evacuation of the land is carried out.

Another emergency affected this Saturday the sanctuary of Our Lady of La Playa in the municipality of San Pablo, where fortunately there were no fatalities or injuries, but there was considerable material damage.

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The presbyter of the parish of San Pablo, Juan Gabriel, said that “thank God it has not happened to majors, a quantity of earth fell on the side of the sanctuary, also at the entrance there is a small slip, we have to remain very united ”.

The mayor of San Pablo, Ricardo Gómez, at the beginning of last February, had warned that the temple, which is very crowded on weekends by inhabitants of the departments of Nariño and Cauca, registered an instability of the land where it was built, so the risk was considered higher.

A commission from the Secretariat of Infrastructure of the Government of Nariño had traveled to that place in order to assess the situation and take the necessary measures.

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Cali would be more affected by winter, they declare manifest urgency - Cali - Colombia

The Mayor’s Office of Cali declared the public calamity and manifest urgency due to the intense winter in the city.

The objective of the measure is to allow the district administration to provide an immediate solution to the problems that may arise due to the winter wave.

(You can read: Flood emergency in the south and southeast of Cali)

Ospina pointed out that the public calamity is decreed due to the rainy season that is approaching in the city.

The objective of the manifest urgency is to allow the district administration to provide an immediate solution to the problems that may arise due to the winter wave.

“Given the winter event we are going through, given the circumstances, we have made the decision to make a declaration of public calamity in our city,” Ospina announced.

The declaration of public calamity was recommended during an extraordinary council for the ravages of the winter season held last Wednesday.

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And it is that winter already leaves several emergencies and dramas. Daniel Gutiérrez and Sebastián Martínez arrived in the rural area of ​​Pance, south of Cali, a week ago, and have since lost their trail after an intense downpour fell. The young people managed to report by WhatsApp that they were trapped in a fence of the river.

In addition, in the south and southeast of the capital of Valle del Cauca there have been floods caused by intense rains. On Pasoancho avenue with 70th street there were serious floods.

The Regional Autonomous Corporation of Valle del Cauca (CVC) has warned that there is a 90 percent probability that the La Niña phenomenon will be registered in the current month.

It should be remembered that the rainy season in the country will last until May.

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Winter Cauca: more than 100 families affected by winter wave in Algeria - Other Cities - Colombia

The strong winter wave that occurs in the southwest of the country, leaves more than 100 families affected, as well as damage to road infrastructure, schools and homes in the municipality of Argelia, south of the department of Cauca.

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“We are doing everything possible to attend to the emergency with the scarce resources we have. We invite everyone to show solidarity in this complex situation that our peasant families are going through throughout the municipal territory,” said the mayor of that town, Jonathan Patiño.

According to the report of the Algerian Risk Management Advisory Office, there were 43 landslides, five river floods, 75 homes affected, 135 families affected, among other damages.

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“The Risk Management Office and the Municipal Mayor’s Office are working together with the community and the Community Action Boards to work on this case,” said Robinson Caicedo, Risk Management Coordinator.

Likewise, the official invited the population of Algeria to make their reports to whatsapp 3185447911, sending a photo and location.

At this time, the passage from Balboa to Algeria remains incommunicado, due to a landslide, in the sector known as La Pólvora.

Relief organizations continue with the sweeps to establish all the damages in that area of ​​Cauca.

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Winter wreaks havoc in the Valley: a missing woman in Jamundí - Cali - Colombia

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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Mayor of San Pablo, Nariño, says that the winter emergency is still in force - Other Cities - Colombia

“Here we are still at latent risk,” the mayor of the municipality of San Pablo, Ricardo Gómez Lasso, affirmed without hesitation, 72 hours after the avalanche occurred due to the overflow of the La Brisa ravine, leaving a girl missing and 350 homes affected.

When three days have passed since the emergency due to the winter wave in that town located north of Nariño, the municipal president already put his finger on the sore spot by warning that the danger for the community has not passed and that since winter is going to continue, then it is necessary to carry out infrastructure works in the short and medium term, to avoid a tragedy of incalculable proportions.

“Here we need infrastructure works, we need big works,” he insisted, making a clear warning to the Departmental and National Governments that with “warm water wipes” the problem cannot be solved.

And the work that he proposes is the channeling or diversion of the ravine, of which he said “we do not do that easily, we must do a large infrastructure work that allows us to solve the problem in the future.”

That is why he believes that the necessary investment is required, for which he made a vehement appeal to the professionals of the National Directorate of Risk Management who visited the municipality on Sunday, to take stock of the works that are required.

The governor of Nariño, Jhon Rojas Cabrera, also agreed with the mayor, in the sense that the inhabitants of San Pablo need substantive solutions in the face of the emergency they have been experiencing since last Friday afternoon, when the strong winter made them think at worst

“We take stock to establish what mitigation works and what mitigation actions are required here, to restore tranquility,” revealed the president, who thanked all the relief agencies that came together to attend to the emergency and provide relief to the inhabitants. .

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Once again he called for the solidarity of the Nariñenses, through the donation of blankets, mattresses, non-perishable food and medicines that will be delivered to the 350 affected families.

He also stressed that the search for the missing girl continues today with the participation of units from the Volunteer Fire Department, Civil Defense and the National Army. This work extends to the La Brisa creek and the Mayo River.

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Given the lack of drinking water service in the town, the liquid is being guaranteed through tanker vehicles, “we know that there are no damages in the infrastructure part of the aqueduct,” he said and recalled that the nursing home was also affected by force of the current

Since Sunday, food kits arranged by the National Risk Management Directorate have been delivered to the affected families, while in the city of Pasto, the Government of Nariño and other entities collect donations of items such as blankets, mattresses , clothing in good condition and food to be delivered to the victims.

Recommendations to communities

Relief agencies are reminding the entire Nariñense community that the current rainy season can cause phenomena such as landslides, floods, flash floods and hailstorms.

Due to the above, it is requested to clean the pipes, drains and sinks that can be blocked, also check the trees that represent a threat, repair roofs and leaks that can flood the houses, as well as not throw sticks, waste or garbage to the rivers and streams because they can produce damming.

It is also advised that while it is raining you should stay away from towers, poles, signs and metal fences, just as you should stay away from areas of possible landslides.

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Human Rights? China Won that Winter Olympics Battle. Almost.

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When three-time Olympian Gus Kenworthy took the remarkable, perhaps even brave decision to speak out against “human rights atrocities” while still in China at the Winter Games, the self-proclaimed “loud and obnoxious” British skier also proved that other athletes, had they chosen, perhaps could have used their Olympic platform to pipe up, too.

Because Kenworthy wasn’t hauled away and imprisoned, as Chinese critics of the ruling Communist Party routinely are. Doing so would have generated exactly the sort of global focus on the Chinese government’s authoritarian methods that it sought to avoid while global sports’ biggest show was in town.

And with the notable exception of Kenworthy, China largely accomplished that mission.

Olympians with any qualms about chasing medals in a country accused of genocide against its Muslim Uyghur population and of other abuses kept their views on those topics to themselves for the durations of their stay. And perhaps for good reason: They faced vague but, as it turned out, undeployed Chinese threats of punishment, constant surveillance and the sobering example of tennis star Peng Shuai’s difficulties after she voiced allegations of forced sex against a Communist Party official.

FILE – China’s Peng Shuai reacts during her first round singles match against Japan’s Nao Hibino at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 21, 2020.

“We have seen an effective silencing of 2,800 athletes, and that’s scary,” said Noah Hoffman, a former U.S. Olympic skier and board member of the Global Athlete advocacy group pushing for Olympic reform.

FILE- Noah Hoffman, of the United States, competes during the men’s 15km freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018.

Kenworthy, speaking to The Associated Press before his 8th-place finish in the halfpipe final on the Games’ penultimate day, laid out why.

“We’re in China, so we play by China’s rules. And China makes their rules as they go, and they certainly have the power to kind of do whatever they want: Hold an athlete, stop an athlete from leaving, stop an athlete from competing,” he said.

“I’ve also been advised to sort of tread lightly while I am here and that’s what I am trying to do.”

Immediately after competing, however, the proudly gay athlete’s gloves came off.

He prefaced criticism with praise for China’s “incredible job with this Olympics” and carefully calibrated his words. But unlike other Olympians, he couldn’t bite his tongue until he got home. Kenworthy aimed jabs not only at the host country’s rights abuses and “poor stance on LGBTQ rights” but also at other athletes he said try “to appeal to the masses” and avoid ruffling feathers.

“I’ve already kind of accepted that that’s not what I’m gonna do,” he said. “I’m just gonna speak my truth.”

In fairness, Olympians found themselves squeezed on all sides in Beijing. Campaigners abroad hoped they would spark global outrage over the imprisonment in re-education camps of an estimated 1 million people or more, most of them Uyghurs. China, backed to the hilt by the International Olympic Committee, didn’t want critical voices to be heard. And their own voices told athletes to focus, focus, focus on the pursuit of Olympic success that they, their coaches and families sacrificed for.

The sweep and vagueness of a Chinese official’s threat before the Games of “certain punishment” for “any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit” appeared to have a particularly sobering effect on Beijing-bound teams. Campaigners who met with athletes in the United States in the weeks before their departure, lobbying them about Uyghurs and the crushing of dissent in Tibet and Hong Kong, noticed the chill.

“Prior to the statement, we had been engaging with quite a few athletes,” said Pema Doma, campaigns director at Students for a Free Tibet. They “were expressing a lot of interest in learning more and being engaged in the human rights issue.”

Afterward, “there was a very, very distinct difference” and “one athlete even said to an activist directly: ‘I’ve been instructed not to take anything from you or speak to you,'” she said in a phone interview.

Other concerns also weighed on Olympians, way beyond the usual anxieties that often come with travel to a foreign land, away from home comforts.

Warnings of possible cyber-snooping by Chinese security services and team advisories that athletes leave electronic devices at home were alarming for a generation weaned on social media and constant connectivity with their worlds.

Also wearing were daily coronavirus tests that were mandatory — and invasive, taken with swabs to the back of the throat — for all Olympians, locked inside a tightly policed bubble of health restrictions to prevent infection spreads. The penalty for testing positive was possible quarantine and missed competition, a terrible blow for winter athletes who often toil outside of the limelight, except every four years at the Games.

“Who knows where those tests go, who handles the results,” Kenworthy said. “It’s definitely in the back of the mind.”

“And there’s like all the cybersecurity stuff. It is concerning,” he told The AP.

Often, athletes simply blanked when asked about human rights, saying they weren’t qualified to speak on the issue or were focused on competition, and hunkered down.

FILE- Sanne In ‘t Hof of the Netherlands competes in the women’s speedskating 5,000-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Beijing.

On Twitter, Dutch speedskater Sanne in ‘t Hof blocked, unblocked and then blocked again a Uyghur living in the Netherlands who posted critical comments of Olympians in what he called “genocide” Games. Mirehmet Ablet shared a screengrab with The AP showing that the skater had barred him from accessing her account, where she tweeted that she “enjoyed every second!’ of her first Olympics. Ablet’s brother was arrested in 2017 in the Uyghur homeland of Xinjiang in far western China, and Ablet doesn’t know where he’s now held.

Other athletes also were effusive in praising their China experience. “Nothing short of amazing,” said U.S. speedskating bronze-medal winner Brittany Bowe.

FILE- Brittany Bowe of the United States reacts after her heat in the women’s speedskating 1,500-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, in Beijing.

Hoffman, who competed for the U.S. at the 2014 and 2018 Games, said internal politics within teams may also have dissuaded athletes from speaking critically. Coaches can bench athletes who bring unwanted attention and “there’s pressure from your teammates to not cause a distraction,” he said in a phone interview. Athletes with self-confidence dented by sub-par performances may also have felt that they’d lost any platform.

“There’s lots of really subtle pressure,” Hoffman said.

He expects some athletes won’t be critical once home, so as to not disrespect the cheerful and helpful Games workers.

But he’s hopeful others will speak up on their return and that “we do get a chorus.”

Feeling unmuzzled, some already are.

FILE- Nils van der Poel of Sweden reacts after breaking his own world record in the men’s speedskating 10,000-meter race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in Beijing.

Back in Sweden with his two gold medals in speedskating, Nils van der Poel told the Aftonbladet newspaper that although he had “a very nice experience behind the scenes,” hosting the Games in China was “terrible.” He drew parallels with the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany and Russia hosting the Sochi Olympics before seizing control of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.

“It is extremely irresponsible,” van der Poel said, “to give it to a country that violates human rights as clearly as the Chinese regime does.”

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Winter avalanches cause alarm in Nariño - Other Cities - Colombia

The overflow of the Las Brisas stream due to a torrential downpour keeps the inhabitants of the municipality of San Pablo, north of Nariño, on high alert.

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The anguished residents from social networks show impressive videos, in which you can see how the streets and avenues of the town became real rivers.

The force of the waters that run along the roads is such that vehicles, motorcycles and even defenseless stray dogs were dragged along.

The rains broke out during the afternoon hours of this Friday and lasted until night, for which its inhabitants were forced to lock themselves in their houses to evacuate the water that entered them through doors and windows.

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Among the neighborhoods most affected by the winter emergency are Los Jardines, Villa Cristina, Balcones del Mayo and San Miguel.

The waters entered the facilities of the San Carlos Hospital, where some patients had to be transferred to other safer rooms.

The relief agencies have been helpless when dealing with the avalanches, while the authorities of the Local Committee for Risk Management declared the highest alert, given the probability that the rains will continue and the situation will worsen even more.

At least 50 affected families in the urban area have already been transferred to the coliseum and the school, where they will surely have to spend the night of this Friday.

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San Pablo is a distant town about 4 hours from the city of Pasto and relief agencies from nearby municipalities such as La Unión, La Cruz and Belén have traveled to attend to the serious emergency.

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Tragic balance due to winter storm in Brazil rises to 100

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Thursday, February 17, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). The number of victims due to the winter storm that hit the city of Petrópolis in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro reaches 100. The city was destroyed after the passage of the gale.

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Mojana: they ask to speed up works in the face of a cat before the threat of winter - Other Cities - Colombia

Inhabitants of the Rabón areain the jurisdiction of the municipality of Guaranda, in La Mojana expressed their concern, because they consider that the work being carried out in the cat face break will not be effective by the end of February, as announced by the National Risk Management Unit, responsible of the mitigation works in this region, between the departments of Bolívar and Sucre.

This has been stated by leaders, merchants, ranchers, rice farmers, farmers in general, who arrived at the scene of the emergency with the face of a cat and returned alarmed because They assure that the works do not advance.

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Works are worth 2.5 billion pesos

One of them in Darinel Regino, owner of the ‘El Tamarindo’ farm, located in the jurisdiction of the New Hope corregimiento.

“Since September we have been flooded in La Mojana and in this case I make special mention of the Rabón area. We made a visual inspection of the works that are being carried out and we leave very disappointed, scared, because the works that are being carried out do not guarantee that this year we will not be flooded, ”he said.

The President of the Republic, Iván Duque, promised at the beginning of October 2021 that the works to solve the floods in the La Mojana subregion, in four departments, will be carried out in two phases, one with immediate execution works and the second with the construction of the Directional Breakwater with hydraulic gates.

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The president assured that they will invest 2.5 billion pesos to solve this historical problem that each winter season leaves thousands of victims, millionaire losses, and a rich region considered a pantry, plunged today into poverty. The resources to intervene in La Mojana are backed by a Conpes public policy document as a national strategic project.​

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They ask staff who know the local hydraulics

Regino explained that they are working and that the people designated for the works are interested in carrying them out and officials from the National Risk Management Unit are permanently present at the site and do their best to cover up the break. cat face.

“The inspection we have done, the interviews with the farmers in the area, who know the dynamics of the Cauca River, tell us that very soon it will grow and we will see the containment bags that they are placing in the region of The Sierpe”, he affirmed.

They made a new call to the central government to take urgent letters. They request that they pay more attention to the cat’s face and that the work be carried out by qualified personnel who know the local hydraulics.

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“Send machinery of the quality and quantity necessary to cover the rupture caused by the river. It’s not that they don’t want to do it, but the seriousness and magnitude of the problem is greater than the capacity of the people who are working”, he expressed.

Likewise, he specified that what is recorded in the region is a race against time and the inhabitants of the area pray for the Cauca River to go down.

In the midst of last year’s tragedy, the Government maintained that rapid interventions must be made in the 10 critical points in each of the municipalities, but a structural solution is also required that must be executed in four phases over a six-year period. .

The river rose and carried away the containment bags that had been placed

… I have already lost 35 hectares of rice that were ready for fumigation, I have also lost the animals, including poultry, pigs and cattle, and I do not want history to repeat itself”

Another of the growers who lives in the Nueva Esperanza corregimiento asks for the help of the national government because of the critical state they are in when they lose everything.

“We do not see results from the work they are doing, I have already lost 35 hectares of rice that were ready for fumigation, I also lost the animals, including poultry, pigs and cattle, and I do not want history to repeat itself,” he said.

He also stated that they do not see safety in the work being carried out, because recently the river rose and took away the containment bags that had been placed.

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The growers of the Mojana sub-region have stated that now they do not know what to do, because the land can no longer be sown, much less have animals.

The communities assure that the situation is the same between the farmers of La Mojana and El San Jorge, because some lost more and others less hectares cultivated with rice and pancoger.

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Risk Management promises that on February 28 there will be a definitive closure

…we continue to maintain, according to information from contractors and auditors, the closure for the end of February of the current year

The national director of the National Risk Management Unit, Eduardo José González, said after an inspection visit to the works, that on February 28 they will definitely cover the cat face hole.

“We have made enormous progress on all fronts and on the piles that are in the middle and we continue to maintain, according to information from contractors and inspectors, the closure for the end of February of the current year,” he said.

The official explained that they received additional proposals to increase working hours, with the operation of more machinery, in a channel that faced cat face.

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“Community, delegates, representatives, mayors, representatives of the Government, ranchers, unions and the National Government with the National Risk Management Unit are all working together,” González stressed, after a meeting in the Unified Command Plan -PMU -.

The day that said Conpes document was signed for the mitigation works in La Mojana, Duque assured: “Here the solution, the resources, the Conpes document are established and the idea is to start the works as of January 2022, with a key, the 10 interventions that are immediate are consistent with the structural solution”.

The first work to prevent Mojana from flooding, according to President Duque, must be carried out at the point known as ‘Cara de Gato’, between San Jacinto del Cauca and Guaranda, an area today in emergency again due to threats of flooding in the entire region.

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Olympic Websites Scrub Conflicting Citizenship Info on China’s Star Winter Athlete

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The mystery surrounding the citizenship of U.S.-born Chinese Olympic team star Eileen Gu has deepened, with VOA learning that two Olympic websites scrubbed contradictory information about her status shortly after she won her first gold medal of the Beijing Winter Games.

The 18-year-old freestyle skier fueled speculation about her status during a post-victory news conference Tuesday when she declined to respond directly to several reporters’ questions about whether she remains a U.S. citizen. She had just won gold in the women’s freeski big air event.

The San Francisco native, who was born a U.S. citizen to a Chinese immigrant mother and an American father, switched her sporting allegiance from the U.S. to China in 2019, making the announcement on Instagram But the manner in which she made the switch has remained unclear.

Under Rule 41 of the Olympic Charter, Gu must be a Chinese national in order to compete for China. But for a person to successfully naturalize as a Chinese citizen, Article 8 of China’s Nationality Law says that person “shall not retain foreign nationality.”

U.S. authorities have not commented on whether Gu has renounced her U.S. citizenship, a decision they typically treat as a private matter.

Gold medalist Eileen Gu of China celebrates during the medal ceremony for the women’s freestyle skiing big air at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 8, 2022, in Beijing.

In recent days, the lack of clarity about Gu’s loyalties has been a hot topic for social media users in the U.S. and China, two global powers navigating an increasingly tense relationship.

Many of those commentators did not appear to have noticed that the website of the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Winter Games, Beijing2020.cn, had an English-language profile page for Gu with a biographical section containing the following sentence: “After her first World Cup win in Italy in 2019, she renounced her United States citizenship for Chinese citizenship in order to represent China at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.” British news site Independent first reported that information about her profile page on February 2.

The reference to Gu renouncing her U.S. citizenship remained on her profile page when VOA reviewed it on Wednesday, indicating that it had been online for at least a week.

Eileen Gu profile screenshot, Feb. 9, 2022.

When VOA reviewed the same page on Thursday, the sentence had been rewritten to say: “After her first World Cup win in Italy in 2019, she made the decision to compete for China.”

Eileen Gu profile screenshot, Feb. 10, 2022.

Also removed from the updated version of her profile was a quote that she gave to her Austrian sponsor Red Bull in December and that she has since repeated in various forms, including at Tuesday’s news conference: “When I’m in America, I’m American. When I’m in China, I’m Chinese.”

The Mandarin version of Gu’s profile on the Beijing Organizing Committee’s website contains only her basic personal, event and schedule information without any of the lengthy background details of the English version.

Also apparently overlooked by many social media users was a contradictory piece of information about Gu’s citizenship that had been on the International Olympic Committee’s website, Olympics.com, in the opening days of the Beijing Games.

In a report published Wednesday, the Taiwan News site noted that an Olympics.com article titled “Five things you didn’t know about Eileen Gu” ended with a sentence referring to Gu as having “dual nationality.”

That sentence disappeared from the article on Thursday, according to a cached view of it from that date as seen by VOA. An earlier cached view of the article reviewed by VOA shows that the sentence was visible online going back to at least February 5.

Eileen Gu profile screenshot, Feb. 5, 2022.

Eileen Gu profile screenshot, Feb. 10, 2022.

VOA emailed the Beijing Organizing Committee and the International Olympic Committee early Friday asking why the details about Gu’s citizenship were scrubbed from their respective websites sometime Wednesday or Thursday. No immediate responses were received.

VOA also messaged Gu on Instagram and emailed the management companies evolution management + marketing and IMG, which represent her sporting and fashion activities respectively for comment, without response.

Susan Brownell, an American research specialist on Chinese sports and an anthropology professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, told VOA that she does not believe that either of the scrubbed statements about Gu, regarding renouncing her U.S. citizenship and having dual nationality, is more definitive than the other.

Speaking in a Friday interview, Brownell also said she believes there are two main reasons for the silence on citizenship questions from China’s Olympic organizers, Gu and many of the other 29 foreign-born and foreign-raised athletes on the Chinese Winter Games team.

China has never before fielded so many foreign-born or foreign-raised athletes on an Olympic team for either the Summer or Winter Games. It recruited the 30 athletes with foreign ties to its current Olympic team, 28 of them ice hockey players, to try to improve its relatively weak performance in winter sports as it hosts the Winter Games for the first time.

“After the Beijing Games, they’re going to assess public opinion about having those athletes in the team: Was it good for Chinese sports, patriotism and the government’s image, or was there a negative nationalist backlash?” Brownell said. “It’s a politically sensitive matter that they would want to keep a lid on at this point,” she added.

Brownell said China also is wary of publicly declaring that it may have granted Gu or any of the other foreign-born and foreign-raised athletes rare exceptions to its nationality law to enable them to naturalize as Chinese citizens without giving up their dual nationalities.

“You’ve got hundreds of thousands of people in China that really want dual citizenship. If you give it to athletes, the other people immediately are going to start saying, ‘What about me?’ I think that’s why you have the silence,” she said.

Lin Yang and Adrianna Zhang of VOA’s Mandarin service contributed to this story.

Winter Floridablanca: Public calamity declared due to rains - Santander - Colombia

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The Mayor’s Office of Floridablanca decreed the public calamity due to the heavy rains that have been recorded in recent days in the municipality.

The rainfall caused flooding in three educational centers, roads and the Floridablanca Transit office.

“The risk points continue to be monitored together with the relief agencies. This articulation allows us to attend and respond in a timely manner, in any situation,” said Leidy Toloza, Director of the Floridablanca Risk Management Office.

In Bucaramanga, the authorities are also on alert due to landslides and problems that have occurred in neighborhoods in the north of the city.

“We consider that what is being presented are situations outside this situation, a phenomenon that has been generating accelerations in the rains. For this reason, we are going to be very attentive to the alerts that are generated to attend to everything that is presented,” said Luis Ernesto Ortega, coordinator of Risk Management of Bucaramanga.

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United States Wins First Gold Medal of Beijing Winter Olympics

The United States secured its first gold medal of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Wednesday when Lindsey Jacobellis won the women’s snowboard cross competition.

The 36-year-old Jacobellis has been the dominant figure in the short history of the sport, but has come up short in her quest for Olympic gold since her debut at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy. She was heading to a certain gold medal at the Turin Games when she slipped and fell attempting a flashy move during a jump on the final leg of the race, forcing her to settle for the silver medal.

From left silver medalist France’s Chloe Trespeuch, gold medalist United States’ Lindsey Jacobellis and bronze medalist Canada’s Meryeta O’Dine celebrate during the venue ceremony for the women’s snowboard cross at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Chloe Trespeuch of France won the silver medal Wednesday, while Canada’s Meryeta Odine took home the bronze.

Jacobellis’s win came hours after U.S. skier Mikeala Shiffrin, the most dominant women’s Alpine skier of her generation, endured another shocking failure in her quest to add to her Olympic gold medal collection. Shiffrin was just seconds into her first run in the women’s slalom competition when she missed a gate and skied off the course, resulting in her disqualification, and sat despondent and dejected on the side of the course for several minutes.

Petra Vlhova of Slovakia took the gold medal in the women’s slalom, with Katharina Leinsberger of Austria taking the silver medal and Wendy Holdener of Switzerland winning bronze.

Also Wednesday, 21-year-old Birk Ruud of Norway won the gold medal in the men’s freestyle big air competition, with American Colby Stevenson taking home the silver medal, six years after suffering massive injuries in a near-fatal automobile crash, including a fractured skull. Sweden’s Henrik Harlaut won the bronze medal.

American snowboarders Shuan White and Chloe Kim both qualified to advance to the finals of the men’s and women’s halfpipe competition, respectively. The 35-year-old White, a three-time gold medalist, is competing in his final Winter Olympics, while the 21-year-old Kim is seeking to defend the gold medal she won at the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.

Five female ski jumpers have been disqualified from the Beijing Olympics after the International Ski Federation (FIS) ruled that their suits were too big.

Katharina Althaus, of Germany, soars through the air during a women’s normal hill ski jumping training session at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Germany’s Katharina Althaus, Silje Opseth and Anna Odine Stroem of Norway, Japanese jumper Sara Takanashi and Austria’s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz were all disqualified from taking part in the inaugural mixed team event, which featured teams with two women and two men each.

Althaus denounced the FIS decision, saying they “destroyed women’s ski jumping.”

Slovenia won the gold medal in the event, with the Russian Olympic Committee team winning silver and Canada the surprise bronze medal winners.

Landslide in Pereira: what lies behind the winter tragedy - Other Cities - Colombia

Fifteen dead, including three minors, 34 injured and more than 100 people affected was on Tuesday night the preliminary balance of the tragedy that he experienced since morning Risaraldadue to heavy rains.

A downpour caused a landslide that buried six houses and affected another 20 in the sector of The Esnedaon the border between Pereira and Dosquebradas, and also caused the overflow of the Otún River.

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The emergency, according to the inhabitants of the sector, occurred around 6:25 in the morning, and since then the rescue work began, led by emergency agencies, accompanied by the community, but these had to be suspended in several opportunities because in the capital of Risaralda, it practically did not stop raining all day.

The mayor of Pereira, Carlos Mayanpointed out that about 25 years ago a similar emergency occurred in the area, which suffers from rising rivers during the rainy seasons.

(Also read: The heartbreaking stories of the survivors of the Pereira tragedy)

Winter tragedy in Risaralda left 15 dead and 34 injured.

“The banks of the Otún River have been invaded many times and although we have evicted it so that the families do not experience that risk, many people return. Now we are focused on recovering the bodies and finding more survivors, and then we will think about relocation, “said the local president.

However, this is not an irregular neighborhood or an invasion and the sector has always been recognized by the local authorities of Pereira.

According to the Mayor’s Office, the tragedy occurred due to saturation of the land, after more than 12 continuous hours of rain.

“The triggering factor of the emergency was a rupture in the canal of the ditch that, when it collapsed, generated an accumulation and constant flow of water towards the hillside,” they reported from the administration.

(You may be interested in: Tragedy in Pereira: how and where to help those affected by the collapse)

The Dosquebradas firefighters, who were the first to arrive at the scene of the tragedy, since the area borders both municipalities, pointed out that the risk of a major disaster in the area continues as the river flow is still very high.

That is why they evacuated all the houses located two blocks from the affected sector.
Due to the large number of injured people, the hospital network declared a yellow alert. One of the hospitals where they have received more patients is the San Jorge hospital, from where a preliminary report was delivered.

“Among the injured there are two in surgery, one with a diagnosis of pneumothorax and another with trauma to the lower limbs with cardiovascular risk,” reported the hospital manager, Maria Ellen Ruiz.

There was no record of a tragedy like these almost five years ago in the Coffee Region, when the rains caused a landslide in April 2017, in Manizales, which left 17 people dead. And the most recent precedent in the country was in Mallama, Nariño, when a landslide in November 2021 also left 17 victims.

(In other news: The reaction of Álex Char’s wife to Aida Merlano’s statements)

The shocking images of the winter tragedy in Pereira.

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Families, homes and businesses were destroyed and buried in the rubble. The stories heard amid the rush of relief agencies and the community helping to search for survivors or fatalities are shocking.

“Three uncles, cousins ​​and nephews lived in that area. My niece was saved because she was awake, but the girl (her daughter) died because the wall of the house fell while she was still in bed. That is very hard that one has to see the family like this”, said one of the neighbors of the place.

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One of her uncles also died of this woman, and she has four other relatives in the San Rafael de Pereira clinic.

Other families did not lose one of their members, but lost everything they had. That is the case of Pedro Lugo, who lived with his wife and his children in one of the houses on Avenida del Río and Calle 26.

Of his business, a junkyard, he only has memories. “The collapse took everything where my business was, I was left with nothing, but thank God my family and I are alive,” she narrated.

Winter tragedy in Risaralda left 15 dead and 34 injured.

Lugo pointed out that at 6:30 this morning everything was screaming and desolation. “When we went out to see what happened, people were running everywhere. I approached and we managed to rescue several, but later the authorities arrived and we let them do their thing.

It was very sad to see that you lost your lifelong neighbors,” said the man who has lived in this sector of the Risaraldense capital for more than 50 years.

A few blocks from the scene of the events, concern and sadness also abound. Two blocks down from the place lives José Quintero, who lost several members of his family.

“My son-in-law and brother died, and my daughter is in a very serious hospital. When I went down and saw all that destroyed it was very hard. My son-in-law had a little store and my daughter was lying down because they get up very early to make arepas; she is delicate, but fine”, commented Quintero.

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The authorities expect this Wednesday, from 6 am, to continue with the search, since it is not ruled out that there are more missing persons, and debris removal, and they have said that they will take measures to relocate some families who were affected. But the jobs will depend on the state of the weather.

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Spectacular opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

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BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Friday, February 4, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). With a spectacular ceremony and under strict biosafety regulations, the Olympic flame was lit in Beijing. 92 countries paraded in the imposing National Stadium in the Chinese capital, known as the Bird’s Nest, to kick off the Winter Olympics.

The winter appointment will have 109 tests in 15 different disciplines distributed in three venues.

Latin America will have 33 athletes in the sports competitions who will seek to give Latin America a medal for the first time in history. Laura Gómez, Michael Poettoz and Carlos Quintana will represent Colombia in these games that have been marked by the diplomatic boycott of several nations, due to the denunciations of human rights violations in China.

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