Parents search for children missing since a volcanic eruption in Colombia 40 years ago
12.11.2025
Martha Lucía López released the boat into the river alongside hundreds of others with the faces of missing children, in one last attempt to find her son, or rather, to pray that he would find her. “The only option we have is for them, the people who adopted them, to tell the true story and for them (the children) to come to us,” the 67-year-old said. Approximately 25,000 perished when the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted, making it the deadliest natural disaster in Colombia’s recent history and