Four Decades After Armero: The Unaccounted Children and a Nation’s Forgotten Tragedy

How Did Colombia Fail the Victims of the Armero Disaster?On November 13, 1985, the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz wiped Armero off the map, killing over 23,000 people and leaving thousands searching for answers that have never fully come. Among them is Martha Lucía López, who has spent four decades holding on to hope that her son Sergio, lost at age four amid the chaos, might still be alive. But hope alone cannot fill the void created by systemic governmental failure.The Colombian government's response to this tragedy reveals a grim pattern of incompetence and disregard for national sovereignty over citizen...