Topos Azteca, a Mexican Volunteer Rescue Group, Helps With Rescue Efforts After Colombia Earthquake
Topos Azteca, a Mexican volunteer rescue group that works worldwide and helped after the Sept. 11 attacks, arrived in Colombia after searching for survivors in Venezuela. Genevieve Glatsky and Federico Rios spent days reporting from rescue sites in Cali, Colombia. For 40 days they labored in Venezuela, rescuing survivors from the wreckage and later recovering bodies from La Guaira, the coastal region that was the nexus of death and destruction triggered by back-to-back earthquakes . After a quake struck in neighboring Colombia on Monday they hopped on a red-eye flight.
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Topos Azteca, a Mexican volunteer rescue group that works worldwide and helped after the Sept. 11 attacks, arrived in Colombia after searching for survivors in Venezuela. Genevieve Glatsky and Federico Rios spent days reporting from rescue sites in Cali, Colombia. For 40 days they labored in Venezuela, rescuing survivors from the wreckage and later recovering bodies from La Guaira, the coastal region that was the nexus of death and destruction triggered by back-to-back earthquakes . After a quake struck in neighboring Colombia on Monday they hopped on a red-eye flight.