His name is Germán. He is a pediatrician, and that Monday he was on duty like any other day.
At 7:34 in the morning, the ground shook with a magnitude of 7.4, the strongest to hit Colombia in years. The epicenter was in Chocó, but the tremor reached the Clínica Panamericana in Apartadó, where Germán worked.
Instinct in those seconds usually says only one thing: run. He did the opposite. He went straight to the newborns, held them against his chest, and left with them in his arms while the building was still shaking.
He did not stop there. Two mothers had been paralyzed by fear, unable to move, and he went back for them too.
Someone took a photo at that moment. He did not know it. He did not pose, did not look at the camera, did not think about anything other than the tiny bodies he was holding.
Later, the full scale of the earthquake became known: more than a hundred people died across the country, thousands of homes were damaged, entire cities were evacuating hospitals. In Cali, another baby was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building.
All of Colombia is rebuilding what fell. But it is also telling stories like this one, of a man who, in the worst second of the day, thought first of those who could not think of anything.
The ground shook for only a few seconds. What Germán did will be remembered much longer than that.