Abelardo de la Espriella promised two more apartments in Cali: These are the girls who asked the president for a house after the earthquake

Following a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Cali, Valle del Cauca, on Monday, August 10, public figure Abelardo de la Espriella pledged two additional apartments in the city to young girls who had directly asked the president for housing amidst the disaster's aftermath.

In a separate development, Bogotá City Council President Papo Amín publicly backed an initiative led by de_la_Espriella aimed at reforming the capital's traffic detection system involving photo-fines, declaring that "the business will come to an end" for the current system.