De la Espriella decrees economic emergency in 15 departments for 30 days
Bogotá.- The President of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, declared this Wednesday a state of economic, social, and ecological emergency due to the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that devastated the center-west of the country on August 10, with the aim of facilitating the response to the tragedy.
In a decree, published by the Administrative Department of the Presidency of the Republic (Dapre), the president declared an economic emergency in fifteen departments for thirty days to “conjure the crisis and prevent the extension of the effects of the disaster“.
You can also read: De la Espriella lowers the death toll from the earthquake in Colombia to 289
The economic emergency is a legal mechanism to channel national and international funds and boost the country’s reconstruction after the earthquake, the most serious suffered in Colombia so far this century.
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