Buenaventura fears earthquake recovery will deepen state neglect of Colombia's poorest port city

Three days after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake tore through Colombia's Pacific coast, the port city of Buenaventura — home to the country's largest commercial harbor yet one of its poorest communities — waits in the rubble for a state that has long looked past it. The disaster killed 19 people in the city, collapsed hundreds of homes, and overwhelmed a hospital already broken by unpaid workers and scarce supplies, revealing not a sudden crisis but a chronic abandonment made suddenly visible. For Buenaventura's predominantly Afro-Colombian residents, the earthquake did not change their relationshi