Word: lamberto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over a battery-powered radio, a journalist named Lamberto Guzman sent a horrifying report from Yungay: "Out of 41,000 only 3,000 have survived-those of us who reached the higher areas before the huayco hit us. We had been terrified by the quake, and most of us were praying in the streets amid the wreckage of our city when we heard the infernal thunder of the huayco coming down from Huascarán. For God's sake, send us help. We have no medicine, no food. We have sent some men to one of the lakes...