Fear Not Our Sirens: Fear Silence | By: Rodrigo A. Longa T.

El Sol de Iquique

Factuality

Ownership

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” — Nelson Mandela. The rain fell on Iquique with a force for which our city has never truly been prepared. In just a few hours, the streets transformed into makeshift riverbeds, water flooded homes, structures collapsed, electricity was cut off, and entire families were trapped inside their own houses. As the emergency unfolded, the alarms never stopped blaring.