Veteran volunteer digs for survivors after Colombia quake

Standing at just over five feet tall, Julio Cesar Pineda feels he was destined for the work of ‌burrowing into the debris of shattered buildings to find survivors — first when a quake hit his native Colombia in 1999 and again just this week.

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