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On June 26, 2026, I joined Canal 13’s morning show to analyze the humanitarian and operational situation in Venezuela following a double earthquake that has claimed a preliminary toll of over 580 lives. With the first 72 hours being critical for search and rescue operations, the conversation covered three key dimensions of Disaster Risk Management.Continue reading “Canal 13 Interview: Venezuela Earthquake — Humanitarian Crisis and International Response”

Extreme temperatures are increasing wildfire risk. In this interview with Florencia Vial on Mega, we discussed the importance of shared responsibility in prevention — given that 99% of wildfires are attributed to human actions — as well as the need to invest in resilience rather than spending on emergency response, how to improve territorial planning,Continue reading “Mega Interview: Wildfire Risk in Chile — Prevention, Territory Planning, and Building Codes”

Chile’s wildfires put the country’s new National Disaster Prevention and Response System to the test — and exposed the urgent need to strengthen a prospective, prevention-focused approach to risk. In this radio interview with Christian Pino Lanata and Karla Rubilar on Radio Agricultura, we discussed what the emergency revealed about institutional readiness and the culturalContinue reading “Radio Agricultura: Chile’s Wildfires and the National Disaster Prevention System”