EP1672 Part 2 of 5 | The Day After Colombia’s Earthquakes (Ana Donneys + Angel Barrera) Map It Forward
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Episode Description
PLEASE SUPPORT EARTHQUAKE RELIEF IN COLOMBIA
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This is episode 2 of a 5-part series on The Daily Coffee Pro Podcast by Map It Forward, hosted by Lee Safar, examining the impact of the August 10, 2026 earthquakes in Colombia with Ana Maria Donneys of Cafe Primitivo and Angel Barrera of Belco.
In the previous episode, Ana and Angel described what it was like when the earthquakes struck. In this episode, the conversation turns to what happened next.
Angel describes sleeping in his car because he no longer felt safe inside his home, returning to the Belco office the next day, and discovering that several colleagues had been displaced from their apartments. For hours, there was still uncertainty about whether everyone was safe.
But amid the disruption, something else emerged very quickly: people started helping each other.
Angel and his colleagues began organising food and coffee for emergency workers and affected communities. Ana describes restaurants becoming donation centres, WhatsApp groups coordinating meals and transport, and trucks carrying supplies arriving from Bogotá, Medellín and other parts of Colombia.
The episode also begins to reveal the scale of the disruption facing coffee-producing communities.
Some rural areas were left without electricity, internet or road access for days. Landslides isolated farms. While the coffee trees themselves appear to have been relatively resilient in many places, farmers’ homes, wet mills and other infrastructure were damaged or destroyed.
Angel also explains that the Port of Buenaventura was affected, with terminal damage, fallen containers, and shipments delayed, an early indication that the consequences could extend beyond the immediate disaster zone and into Colombia’s coffee supply chain.
Connect with Angel Barrera and Belco:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-barrera-8a0b2236/
https://www.instagram.com/koliafobiano/
https://www.instagram.com/belco.coffee/
Connect with Ana Maria Donneys and Cafe Primitivo:
https://www.instagram.com/cafeprimitivo/
https://www.instagram.com/anadonneys/