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00:00:48because as you did in
00:01:08and the city of Pereira, one of the most affected by
00:01:12this earthquake. John Milton Quintero, a resident of that
00:01:15city, is there to
00:01:18tell us how the hours after this
00:01:22strong earthquake were experienced. Milton,
00:01:26thank you for your time. I want you to tell me
00:01:30how these past
00:01:33hours have been for you after
00:01:37this tragedy.
00:01:38Go ahead.
00:01:41Rey, greetings to you and all the viewers. Let's say the experience has
00:01:44been quite catastrophic. In spite
00:01:47of everything, I was very lucky.
00:01:51movements, you are showing them on Fortunately, all my loved ones,
00:01:53including myself, are safe.
00:01:57However, the residence where I live, which has been habitable for
00:02:01about four to five months, I won't be able to occupy
00:02:04it because it suffered significant damage.
00:02:07We were obviously forced to evacuate during that
00:02:11earthquake, which I felt lasted really about
00:02:15two minutes, I would say, but it felt like 15 or 20
00:02:18minutes. It was a sense of helplessness, especially
00:02:21because in Pereira we are relatively
00:02:25accustomed to tremors, mild tremors and so on.
00:02:28When that tremor started, I thought it was just another one,
00:02:32but when it continued, when it didn't stop, when
00:02:36things in the apartment started,
00:02:39let's say, falling, when the walls started to crack and when the movement didn't stop,
00:02:43well, those were seconds of panic that,
00:02:46specifically with the recent
00:02:49the data, ready for whatever experience in Venezuela, I thought we were going to experience, that I, personally,
00:02:52was going to experience a
00:02:55similar situation. The apartment was quite
00:02:58damaged.
00:03:01throughout beta, this is one of I insist that luckily my mother and I, well, we
00:03:05got out well, thank God.
00:03:08However, Pereira is experiencing a very complex situation, especially in neighborhoods
00:03:12like Centenario, 30 de Agosto Avenue,
00:03:16street, they've brought in a Circumvalar Avenue. Many buildings have suffered
00:03:19and many buildings are on the verge of collapse,
00:03:21Rey.
00:03:25You're talking about the complex situation that Pereira
00:03:29is experiencing, of course. One of the most
00:03:32affected, but tell me about that complex situation you're referring
00:03:35to, and I ask you, it might be a very simple question,
00:03:39but you're there, you're seeing it minute by
00:03:42minute, hour after
00:03:45reference point to find out what's hour, everything that's happening. What is the biggest concern?
00:03:48Where are people going? How are they
00:03:52feeling it? In short, everything, everything, and
00:03:55for you, of course, what's next? Well,
00:03:59the aftershocks, I think. I think they have been one of the main fears. This
00:04:02morning in Pereira there was an aftershock of
00:04:054.7 at 11:30 in the morning.
00:04:09Indeed, there are buildings that are about to collapse, there are many that already
00:04:12did in Bolivar Square, for example, I think that has been one of the
00:04:16main fears, Rey, the aftershocks and
00:04:20especially that help arrives quickly. In Pereira, as I have seen
00:04:23in communications from the mayor's office,
00:04:25you to answer me after several collection centers have been set up,
00:04:28one of them is in Consotada, which is in the Cuba
00:04:31neighborhood, there are others that have been installed in the main coliseum, there
00:04:35are also shelter centers where people have been able to go,
00:04:39located in Cuba, in the Main Coliseum
00:04:42as well, that is, there are several points that have been
00:04:45set up so that people can obviously go to
00:04:49receive help. However, to answer your question, Rey, one of the main
00:04:54is happening in your city, in fears are the possible aftershocks and obviously the buildings that
00:04:57were quite damaged. There are many people still under the rubble
00:05:01and the idea is that obviously the authorities, who
00:05:05are doing an excellent job, can continue with this
00:05:08help, but
00:05:11society. What mainly the issue of aftershocks. It has been quite
00:05:15frightening for the
00:05:16community.
00:05:19What's next for you,
00:05:20Milton?
00:05:25Rey, I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Can you repeat, please?
00:05:27favor,
00:05:30Yes, I was asking you first, what's next for you, and
00:05:34of course, a question that always comes up whenever there are
00:05:38emergencies of this type, are we ready? And that includes
00:05:41all of us, because also, for example, in Mexico and
00:05:45other parts, in Venezuela, we just saw it too,
00:05:48well, these are places where
00:05:51this type of event occurs more and more frequently, and
00:05:55the question is also, are we prepared to face
00:05:59these emergencies? Rey, I feel that
00:06:03we will never be prepared, no matter how much
00:06:05training and education is done. I
00:06:09experienced the earthquake in the coffee-growing region in 1999. I lived here in
00:06:13Pereira, I was born here in Pereira, and
00:06:16really, lessons
00:06:20are learned in the moment, I think, Rey. So one always talks
00:06:24afterwards about the importance of having a family plan, of
00:06:27having, for example, at this moment when there
00:06:31is no electricity in many areas of the city, when there is no
00:06:34access to internet, well, one
00:06:37reconfigures those plans. But I feel that
00:06:41it will always be different. That earthquake, unlike the one I experienced in
00:06:451999, was even much harder, it was much
00:06:48longer, and I feel that regardless of whether one
00:06:52is pedagogically prepared to know what
00:06:55to do in this type of circumstances, it will never be
00:06:58enough because what you experience at that moment, that is, the
00:07:03the screen right now, these are moments of panic where
00:07:06indeed many of the things one has learned are not
00:07:10applied.
00:07:14Absolutely, I completely agree, one is never prepared for this, but
00:07:18well, one has to try and prepare for these
00:07:21emergencies. Thank you, John Milton
00:07:24Quintero, thank you for your presence and your
00:07:26time. We will surely
00:07:30see and hear each other
00:07:33in the coming days. Thank you for being here. That was John
00:07:36Milton from Pereira, Colombia, one of the most
00:07:39affected cities. Well, the earthquake, the earthquake was the
00:07:43strongest with an epicenter in the country since
00:07:47at least 1990, according to the United States Geological
00:07:50Survey. One of the areas most affected by the earthquake in
00:07:54Colombia, as we told you, is Pereira, the
00:07:57David, our colleague David from CNN went
00:08:00there, to that area, and tells us how he
00:08:04saw it and what he
00:08:06found.
00:08:14the hardest hit areas, and I want to bring you a little bit closer here, because they've just
00:08:18started once again in trying
00:08:20to actively search for folks within what
00:08:24was an apartment building, and you can see it's covered now this entire
00:08:29crane, they've had to bring in a fuel truck directly to the
00:08:32crane just to keep the operations going, and I was speaking to a
00:08:36couple here who have friends that live in this apartment building and
00:08:39they say that they were hearing yelling through. about the
00:08:42night, and it's for that reason that you have several
00:08:45dozen, not only firefighters and first
00:08:49responders, but then just locals who have jumped in
00:08:53to try to help in some fashion. mean, most don't even have the proper gear to do so, but you
00:08:57can see they're using buckets and they're trying to clear as much rubble as
00:09:00possible, and they're hoping to get to the areas that they
00:09:04believe that those yells are coming from, and and and folks are are
00:09:07standing on the sidelines. let me show you just trying to stay out of the way as much
00:09:11as possible, but also. so they're taking this in,
00:09:14because these are folks that they know, this is their
00:09:17community, some of them are are just standing almost in a days with tears
00:09:21in their eyes as they're watching this play out, and it's interesting
00:09:25as as we got to the first location in this city, mind you, we
00:09:29had driven for eight hours from bolota because flights weren't landing anywhere near
00:09:33here last night, we went to one location and we thought that
00:09:37was the most devastating part of the city, and we've been told at each location,
00:09:40no, you need to go to another, you need to go. go check out this location, go see
00:09:44this, and that's what brought us here to lasa libertad where
00:09:48you can see there is just a continued effort right now to
00:09:51try to find whoever may still be alive, mean we're just after
00:09:5524 hours from when this earthquake struck
00:09:59and so folks are still incredibly hopeful and yet feeling that
00:10:02urgency to try to get to whoever may still
00:10:05be alive in in this collapse structure here,
00:10:09but again I mean you you just go block after block. within
00:10:13this city and you will see lot of the streets are
00:10:16just filled with a rubble that have come down from the buildings
00:10:20around uh, i was also noticing that they
00:10:24uh had on on the... mountain roads that we were coming in on and and these are very windy,
00:10:28dark, difficult roads to traverse. you had lot
00:10:31of uh basically personnel coming in from the capital, from
00:10:35Bogota where we were coming in from, and they were going at really high
00:10:39speeds just trying to get with all the equipment and resources they had
00:10:42to this location to assist in this effort, because you can see it's
00:10:46exhausting, and at this point, I mean the numbers
00:10:49suggest 55 or so who
00:10:53have died in this city.
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00:19:18@reycnn. Well, Honduras, Honduras has Juan
00:19:21Orlando Hernández back in his country. The former president returned
00:19:25last July 26 after being extradited to the United
00:19:29States in 2022 and sentenced in June
00:19:332024 to 45 years in
00:19:36prison for drug trafficking-related crimes.
00:19:39His return was possible after President Donald
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00:19:46considering that he had received a treatment, and
00:19:49I quote, very harsh and unfair in the Joe
00:19:53Biden administration. But Hernández did not return to close a chapter,
00:19:57he returned to open another. Now, he faces
00:20:00in Honduras an accusation of alleged money laundering and fraud, according to the
00:20:04prosecutor's office, more than 10 million dollars. that were
00:20:08diverted to two non-profit organizations between
00:20:112010 and 2013, when Hernández presided over
00:20:14Congress, and he adds that those resources would have been
00:20:18used to finance his 2013 presidential
00:20:22campaign, something he denies. And there is
00:20:25another key detail: Juan
00:20:29Orlando Hernández has still not
00:20:31gone to trial. Last August 3, an
00:20:34organized crime court
00:20:37imposed precautionary measures on him, including the
00:20:40prohibition from leaving the country and rejected the
00:20:43prosecutor's request for him to be provisionally
00:20:47detained due to an alleged risk
00:20:50of flight. The next step will be on August
00:20:5412, that is, this Wednesday, when the
00:20:57initial hearing will be held, in which the
00:21:00judge must determine if there is sufficient
00:21:03merit for the criminal
00:21:06process to advance. And while the prosecutor's office defines its
00:21:10investigation, Hernández
00:21:13responds with a political accusation, saying that an attempt
00:21:17is being made to influence his process
00:21:20and attack judicial independence. The former president speaks of
00:21:24an alleged interference by the
00:21:27radical left.
00:21:29Let's listen. about the interference of groups
00:21:32with dark agendas and policies of the
00:21:36radical left, who, through the manipulation of
00:21:40truth, seek to pressure and attack judicial
00:21:43independence, weakening the
00:21:47constitutional guarantees
00:21:50that
00:21:52all citizens have.
00:21:56Hernández also denied the accusations from the prosecutor's office that
00:22:00representatives of the institution had received
00:22:03threats during his hearing last Monday.
00:22:07Let's listen. The non-existence of
00:22:10threats. We absolutely and
00:22:14categorically deny that during the development of the hearing any
00:22:17type of threat,
00:22:21intimidation or coercion
00:22:24was uttered against the prosecutor or any
00:22:28other official present at that
00:22:29hearing.
00:22:32Well, and today the prosecutor of
00:22:35Honduras is our next
00:22:37guest.
00:22:44And I welcome Dagoberto
00:22:48Aspra Iglesias, the former prosecutor
00:22:50general of Honduras. Prosecutor, thank you for being with us in this space. We just
00:22:53heard a few minutes ago the former president
00:22:57speak and say that he spoke of an alleged
00:23:00interference by the radical left to
00:23:03manipulate this process. Are there elements
00:23:07to support that accusation or is it perhaps
00:23:11part of the defense strategy? I don't know, you will tell me,
00:23:14prosecutor, go ahead, thank you,
00:23:17good evening, Rey, greetings from Tegucigalpa.
00:23:20Those are the arguments that Mr. Juan Orlando
00:23:24Hernández uses when he cannot control people and
00:23:27institutions. He calls us activists, he says we are
00:23:30part of the radical left. What he tries to ignore is that we
00:23:34are part of this government of the national party, the party to which
00:23:38he belongs, which he used to be president of the
00:23:41republic, to be president of Congress. However, we
00:23:45have the clear responsibility to face these processes with
00:23:48greater responsibility, because our obligation is to defend the state of Honduras,
00:23:52to defend its heritage. The Attorney General's Office of the Republic is the representative of the
00:23:56victim in this case, the state, as
00:23:58you pointed out in the preliminary
00:24:02part of this interview, more than 10 million dollars were looted, current
00:24:05value, because these events occurred more
00:24:08or less between 2010 and 2013, where
00:24:12a network of foundations, of
00:24:15civil organizations of a civil nature, was used to extract
00:24:19funds from a secretariat that is oriented towards
00:24:22agriculture and livestock. Programs were disguised to favor
00:24:26young people and mothers and children
00:24:29so that some resource or teaching from the state could
00:24:33reach them. That money, the entire
00:24:36amount, was drained into political campaigns. It has been
00:24:40determined through financial traceability expert reports that
00:24:44the money came from those budgets of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and was
00:24:47used through that
00:24:51network of foundations and was used to pay
00:24:55expenses that were from the political campaign of movements controlled by Juan Orlando
00:24:59Hernández that are identified as Blue United movements, friends of
00:25:02Juan Orlando, another card that they also used
00:25:06to be able to call people to be part of
00:25:10their ranks. This investigation revealed that the patrimonial
00:25:13damage to the state exceeds more than 10 million dollars. We, as
00:25:16members of the national party who are in charge of
00:25:20different institutions, there are many people
00:25:23who we have no commitment to Juan Orlando Hernández. He
00:25:27believes that because he was president of Honduras for two consecutive terms,
00:25:30having been president of the National Congress, having controlled
00:25:33different state organizations of Honduras for more than 20
00:25:37years, most of the people have to fear him or
00:25:40owe him something. We do not owe Juan Orlando Hernández absolutely anything.
00:25:44We are going to assume this responsibility that we have at the head of this institution. Tomorrow
00:25:48I will be personally at the initial hearing, where
00:25:52we will provide evidence to be able to link this
00:25:55gentleman to the process and that the prosecutor's office can exercise the civil
00:25:59compensatory action at the appropriate time and recover assets to be able
00:26:02to compensate for the patrimonial damage that has been done to the state of
00:26:04Honduras.
00:26:07Prosecutor, have you received political pressure to
00:26:11act against the former president? That's on one hand. You are saying
00:26:14that you are supporting this, but others say that there may be
00:26:18interests, political interests, and also the
00:26:22former president speaks of
00:26:24alleged threats. Tell us what happened, I'm sorry to ask
00:26:28you three questions at once, but you will tell me. Yes, of course, the
00:26:31threats, the threats... We reported them from the Attorney General's Office. The
00:26:35three agents of the Attorney General's Office that I appointed for that hearing informed
00:26:39me that the hostile attitude of Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández
00:26:42materialized in situations that we have
00:26:45investigated to be able to have an objective, real criterion of what happened,
00:26:51the presentations prior to my interview, he came out
00:26:54denying what I had said publicly that my
00:26:57prosecuting agents who had been present in the hearing
00:27:00had suffered some type of intimidation. threat, I have the conclusions of an independent
00:27:04report that was carried out by a criminalistics expert
00:27:08and he concludes that there was a high intensity of
00:27:11confrontation and intimidation by
00:27:13directly singling out the official with the expression
00:27:17"I want to look him in the eyes," that is, Mr. Juan Orlando Hernández
00:27:21addresses the people from the Public Prosecutor's Office who are leading
00:27:24our representation, telling them he asked the judge for
00:27:27the floor, the judge granted it to him, an act that we have not
00:27:31seen in other hearings, the defendant is granted the floor without
00:27:35submitting to the formal declaration he must make
00:27:39before the judge, that we cannot ask him questions that do not refer to the facts but
00:27:42rather he does it in a discursive way, he says
00:27:45that he looks him in the eyes, he tells the people from the Public Prosecutor's Office that he wants to give him
00:27:49a lesson and he starts to say, he starts to narrate different
00:27:52situations where he talks about activists, he talks about how different
00:27:56documents were made, because the Public Prosecutor's Office,
00:27:59let me tell you, made a request in the hearing
00:28:03requesting that a precautionary measure
00:28:07of judicial detention be decreed in a detention
00:28:10in a space that we could determine
00:28:13that he could have some security, before being extradited he was in the
00:28:17special forces police battalion, he was there for approximately
00:28:202 months and was guarded
00:28:23there, we are requesting that this be done for the term
00:28:27prior to this hearing because we
00:28:30argued and substantiated within a means of proof that was presented
00:28:34where there is a profile of who Juan Orlando Hernández is, that there was a risk of
00:28:37reiteration, a criminal structure that he was suspected
00:28:41of belonging to and for that reason there was a risk of contamination of sources of
00:28:44proof, I believe that this strength
00:28:47of the request made by the Public Prosecutor's Office was what really
00:28:51bothered him because that is recorded
00:28:54in the video because there is video and audio of that hearing, we presented a
00:28:58means of proof that was elaborated by the policy observatory.
00:29:02the anti-corruption where it concludes that Mr. Juan Orlando
00:29:06Hernández, how he has reached different positions, what he
00:29:10has done, what has been his way of behaving towards the state
00:29:13and and with the power he has had, the use of
00:29:17resources under discretion, which is why
00:29:19we consider that he is indeed part of a criminal structure, that was
00:29:22raised in the hearing, I think that bothered him and that's why
00:29:26he confronted the members of the Public Prosecutor's Office, that report
00:29:30the conclusions are that he uses sustained
00:29:33eye contact towards the representatives of the Public Prosecutor's Office, by
00:29:37saying, "I want to look you in the eyes," he seeks to break the emotional counterbalance
00:29:41of the accuser, in behavioral criminology, this is a non-verbal
00:29:44marker of dominance and coercive forcing, the
00:29:47turning of shoulders and torso breaking the perpendicularity towards the
00:29:51judge's bench, reorienting the body mass frontally and
00:29:54defiantly towards the Public Prosecutor's table, demonstrates
00:29:58that there is a non-verbal intimidation accompanied by
00:30:02masked, disguised phrases, because he usually speaks in a soft
00:30:05tone, in a tone as if he is a grandfather, that he is a family
00:30:09man, he wants to teach a lesson as an older person, but we know that there are
00:30:12veiled threats in those
00:30:14phrases,
00:30:17Prosecutor, do you guarantee
00:30:20then that this process will be based on evidence and not
00:30:24on other things, but I ask
00:30:28the break, I will have to make a cut, we'll be right back, we are
00:30:31talking. Dr. Dagoberto
00:30:34Aspra Iglesias, the Attorney General of Honduras,
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