The 7.4-magnitude earthquake had just shaken Colombia on August 10, 2026, and at the headquarters of Blackstone Medical Services in Sabaneta, near Medellín, employees wanted only one thing: to leave and look for their families.
He denied them that. In a video that went viral, he can be heard telling them that anyone who left without his authorization would have to “answer for abandoning their post”. And he capped it off with a phrase that further inflamed social media: if anything happened, he would be the first to leave, because his daughter was at daycare.
The company reacted quickly. Its CEO, Vick Tipnes, denied that evacuation had been prevented and said that staff did leave the building. But the video was already everywhere, and for thousands of users, the contradiction between Muñoz’s words and the official version only confirmed what they already suspected: while the country counted its dead, some bosses were still thinking about the time clock.