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Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, a 23-year-old Bogota native, said while his efforts were successful, other attempts to help survivors of the disaster that left 20,000 dead were marred by incompetent delivery of goods and guerilla attacks against relief vehicles...
...Melendez-Ortiz flew to Colombia two weeks ago and was responsible for directing the distribution of medical supplies obtained by Americares, a non-profit charity that solicited these items from medical supply companies...
When Melendez-Ortiz arrived in Bogota he met with the president, Belisario Betancur, and was given access to the disaster area which was made off limits by the military...
Operating out of a Bogota warehouse and with the help of Colombian volunteers, Melendez-Ortiz used computers to match the demands of the five major hospitals serving the stricken area...
...Melendez-Ortiz said he believes that all of the supplies he coordinated actually made it to the stricken area. He said larger institutions supplying the disaster region were not as successful...