{"id":334866,"date":"2026-08-12T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/colombia-asks-for-supplies-but-not-foreign-rescue-personnel-after-the-earthquake.html"},"modified":"2026-08-12T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:31:33","slug":"colombia-asks-for-supplies-but-not-foreign-rescue-personnel-after-the-earthquake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/colombia-asks-for-supplies-but-not-foreign-rescue-personnel-after-the-earthquake.html","title":{"rendered":"Colombia asks for supplies but not foreign rescue personnel after the earthquake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colombia asks for supplies but not foreign rescue personnel after the earthquake<\/h2>\n
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The Colombian government issued a diplomatic note on Tuesday requesting support from the international community with specific requirements<\/span> <\/figure>\n

Colombia’s government has requested international aid in the form of supplies for those affected by Monday’s magnitude 7.4 earthquake, but has not called for foreign rescue teams, despite offers from at least six countries and multilateral bodies.<\/p>\n

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, was the one who made Colombia’s position public. \u0093The government of Colombia has requested humanitarian aid solely in the form of supplies to assist the families affected,\u0094 he wrote on social media. \u0093We have been informed that its rescue teams, doctors and other emergency services are deployed and attending to the situation, so at this time they do not require personnel support.\u0094 El Salvador will send two cargo planes with a hundred tons of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n

Several governments have contingents on standby. Ecuador offered a search and rescue team of 47 personnel with specialized dogs and seven days of operational autonomy. Mexico assembled a unit with four tons of medicines and 8.4 tons of tools and rescue equipment, similar to the one deployed in Venezuela after June’s earthquakes. \u0093We are waiting for a formal request from the government of Colombia, but we are ready for the moment they tell us we can go and help,\u0094 President Claudia Sheinbaum said. Chile, Brazil, Peru, Guatemala and Spain, among others, also offered assistance.<\/p>\n

The exception is the United States, which announced 15.5 million dollars in aid for emergency shelter, food, protection and damage assessment. The State Department said it activated a Disaster Assistance Response Team on Monday, due to arrive in the country on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Colombian government issued a diplomatic note on Tuesday requesting support from the international community with specific requirements, a mechanism that does not formally amount to an international appeal. United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said the organization remains in contact with the authorities and supports \u0093the government-led response, as requested.\u0094 China’s ambassador in Bogot\u00e1, Zhu Jingyang, called for a liaison official to be designated as soon as possible to coordinate assistance.<\/p>\n

Colombia’s emergency cooperation system is centralized in the National Disaster Risk Management Unit, which must set out requirements before the foreign ministry passes them to donors. \u0093The government is learning on the go how the mechanism works,\u0094 said international relations scholar Sandra Borda, who added that cities cannot channel aid directly. President Abelardo de la Espriella, who took office on August 7, announced the appointment of geological engineer David Su\u00e1rez Tamayo to head the unit.<\/p>\n

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Colombia asks for supplies but not foreign rescue personnel after the earthquake The Colombian government issued a diplomatic note on Tuesday requesting support from the international community with specific requirements Colombia’s government has requested international aid in the form of supplies for those affected by Monday’s magnitude 7.4 earthquake, but has not called for foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-334866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}