Tragedy looms 40 years after a volcano wiped out a Colombian village

By John Otis

Published November 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM CST

Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.

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