Tag: Colombia

• Friday, April 26th 2024 - 15:08 UTC

  Colombian Army kills 15 rebels after failing peace talks

  

  Colombia's Army this week gunned down 15 rebels from the EMC guerrillas, a dissident group from the old FARC operating in the department of Cauca that refuses to enter peace talks with Bogotá. “War is war,” President Gustavo Petro argued after the latest military update, meaning that these things happen when one of the parties leaves the negotiating table. Another 12 rogue fighters were wounded, it was reported.

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• Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 09:43 UTC

  Colombia going through acute food insecurity

  

  A document released Wednesday by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) together with the United Nation's (UN) Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) showed that, under leftwing President Gustavo Petro, Colombia had for the first time joined the list of countries going through acute food insecurity.

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• Monday, April 22nd 2024 - 12:34 UTC

  Thousands march in Colombia against Petro

  

  Scores of Colombians marched Sunday through the streets of Bogotá and other main cities nationwide to protest against the leftwing administration of President Gustavo Petro, particularly regarding healthcare and a planned reform to the Constitution so that the current head of state may remain on the job after his current term.

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• Sunday, April 21st 2024 - 16:15 UTC

  Wreckwatch Magazine special issue calls for 'decolonization' of San José treasure ship

  

  Wreckwatch, the foremost publication dedicated to maritime archaeology, has released a groundbreaking special issue shedding light on the controversial history and future of the San José, a Spanish galleon lost off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia, in 1708.

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• Monday, April 15th 2024 - 10:22 UTC

  US diplomat spying for Cuba given a 15-year prison sentence

  

  Colombian-born Victor Manuel Rocha, who served as a former US Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying for Cuba for 40 years.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Uribe to become first former Colombian president under trial

  

  Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez will become the first former head of state of the South American country to be brought before the courts, the prosecution announced Tuesday in Bogota. The date for the start of the trial has not yet been set. Uribe faces bribery and procedural fraud charges.

• Monday, April 1st 2024 - 19:05 UTC

  Ties between Argentina and Colombia getting back to normal

  

  Diplomatic authorities of Argentina and Colombia have taken “concrete steps” to overcome their government's “differences” and restore ties between both countries to normal following the engagement in reciprocal diatribes on TV and on social media by Presidents Gustavo Petro and Javier Milei.

• Saturday, March 30th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

  Unusual criticism from Lula da Silva and Petro on Venezuela's presidential race controversy

  

  Renowned South American political figures Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, and Gustavo Petro, head of state of Colombia, have taken an unusual stance against Venezuela's government, criticizing its refusal to allow opposition candidate Corina Yoris to register for the upcoming presidential elections.

• Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

  Colombia expels Argentina's diplomatic mission over Milei statements against Petro

  

  Gustavo Petro ordered all of Argentina's diplomatic staff in Colombia expelled after derogatory remarks against him by fellow President Javier Milei during an interview with CNN. The Libertarian leader called him a “murderer, terrorist,” given his past as a M-19 guerrilla fighter. Colombia also withdrew its Ambassador from Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:28 UTC

  Defendant sentenced to nearly 40 years for involvement in Pecci's murder

  

  Defendant Margareth Lizeth Chacón Zúñiga was sentenced Thursday by a court in Cartagena to 39 years and 10 months in prison for her involvement in the murder of Paraguayan anti-Mafia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in May 2022 while honeymooning in Colombia. Pecci's family requested for Chacón the maximum sentence of 47 years in prison.