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Omaira Sánchez remains a symbol of the Armero tragedy, 40-years after her death. Photo: Archive/FILE

Armero: A Journalist Remembers the Night the Earth Turned to Mud

By Hermogenes Ardila Duran - November 12, 2025

On the night of November 12, 1985, at exactly 10 p.m., the landline rang. “Get ready – the radio car is coming for you,” warned the night controller at the main station of Todelar, the national radio chain where I had been working for about a year and a half. Just a week earlier, we […]

A Landscape of Loss: Forty Years After Armero

By Richard Emblin - November 11, 2025

Forty years after the catastrophe that erased Armero from the map, the landscape where the town once stood has taken on the quiet, uncanny stillness of an eroded manuscript. Vegetation has woven itself into the skeletal remains of walls and foundations, reclaiming what the earth so violently seized on the night of November 13, 1985. […]

Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz and Global Rise of Volcano Tourism

By The City Paper Staff - November 7, 2025

Volcanoes are very visible when traveling through most of central Colombia and even though some remain dormant, hikers can climb up to the crater of the active Nevado del Ruíz

Colombia’s Nevado del Ruíz volcano monitored for “explosive activity”

By The City Paper Staff - November 19, 2021

A unified command post has been established to monitor the Nevado del Ruíz volcano after a week of “unstable behaviour” and “explosive activity.”