Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief.
The highlights this week: A deadly earthquake rattles Colombia, the United States threatens visa bans for Argentines doing business with Huawei, and the final season of One Hundred Years of Solitude drops on Netflix.
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella had been in office for less than three days when a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit the country on Monday.
The epicenter of the quake was in the Chocó department, which is located between Bogotá and the Pacific coast and lies on a few fault lines. Colombian officials said on Thursday that at least 273 people had died, while a civilian-created tally reported that more than 4,000 were still missing.
Earthquake response has dominated de la Espriella’s first days in office and led to global offers of support. But the new president was slow to embrace those overtures—highlighting a foreign-policy shakeup that he was already carrying out.
