Rain threatens Cali's makeshift shelters: “We have nowhere to go”
Citizens have built informal shelters to care, with their own hands, for hundreds of people who have not received support from the Mayor's Office.
In Cali, life depends on it not raining. Faced with a mountain of rubble that until three days ago was a seven-story building, the neighbors of the Cuarto de Legua neighborhood cross themselves and look up at the sky, as if salvation or condemnation could come from there. Others raise their eyes to the tops of the trees, hoping that the clouds will continue to pass by.
In the third most populous city in Colombia, and one of the most affected by Monday's earthquake, at least two weeks have passed without a drop of water falling. Now, in the midst of the worst emergency in decades in the city, the weather decides destinies: that of those affected who spend the nights exposed to the elements, and that of those who perhaps still resist under the rubble.
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