{"id":520842,"date":"2026-08-11T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/?p=520842"},"modified":"2026-08-11T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T14:27:02","slug":"colombia-earthquake-pereira-mayor-breaks-down-in-tears-as-journalist-embraces-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/colombia-earthquake-pereira-mayor-breaks-down-in-tears-as-journalist-embraces-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia earthquake: Pereira mayor breaks down in tears as journalist embraces him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pereira Mayor <strong>Mauricio Salazar<\/strong> broke down in tears while speaking about the devastation caused by the <strong>7.4-magnitude earthquake in Colombia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an interview with <strong>Freddy G\u00f3mez of Noticias Caracol<\/strong>, Salazar described the situation in Pereira as critical, speaking about the victims, thousands of injured people, damaged buildings and possible survivors trapped under the rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the mayor struggled to contain his emotions, the journalist decided to <strong>end the interview and embrace him<\/strong>, creating an emotional moment of solidarity amid the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pereira Mayor Mauricio Salazar broke down in tears while speaking about the devastation caused by the 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Colombia. During an interview with Freddy G\u00f3mez of Noticias Caracol, Salazar described the situation in Pereira as critical, speaking about the victims, thousands of injured people, damaged buildings and possible survivors trapped under the rubble. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":520845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13631],"class_list":["post-520842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-colombia"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2buG","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/6a7b140ae9ff714f046c6cd7.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Edith B\u00e1ez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-08-11-at-11.09.56-AM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/6a7b140ae9ff714f046c6cd7.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}