Of his time as the magazine 's '' ' parachute journalist ' '' , Arias has said , " On every continent , I covered five wars , famine , earthquakes , hurricanes , all kinds of disasters in Haiti , Somalia , Ethiopia , Australia , Vietnam , Moscow , you name it . " His first major disaster article was the 1985 Mexico City earthquake , which he was assigned simply because he was the only staff member fluent in Spanish
1985 Mexico City earthquake
1985 Mexico City earthquake
Ron Arias