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Montevideo, January 22nd 2026 - 19:31 UTC

Tag: Colombia

  • Thursday, January 5th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    No truce with ELN, Colombian gov't now says

    The ceasefire remains effective regarding the other rebel groups, Prada said

    Colombia's government Wednesday announced it was suspending its previous decision to decree a truce with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas after the rebel organization denied having agreed to it.

  • Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:41 UTC

    Convicted Colombian drug lord waiting for clearance to enter Argentina

    Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff is banned from the Argentine territory but claims it is a humanitarian issue due to his diabetes

    A Colombian drug lord was denied entry into Argentina, where he was seeking to avoid deportation. Ignacio Alvarez Meyendorff, 62, arrived at the Ezeiza airport on Avianca's Flight 87 on Dec. 23 from Bogotá but the alarms went off the minute his name was punched into the migrations screens. He has remained at the airport since. He has a wife and four children in Buenos Aires. He

  • Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 19:26 UTC

    Adulterated liquor kills at least 37 in Bogota

    Since his days as mayor of Bogota, Petro has made the homeless one of his priorities

    At least 37 people died between Nov. 24 and Dec. 20 in Bogota for having consumed adulterated liquor containing methanol. According to local media reports, 7 others are hospitalized in critical condition.

  • Monday, December 19th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

    Colombia: ELN guerrillas announce Christmas truce

    The ELN is known not to have fully observed previous ceasefires. Hence, instead of optimistic analysts are rather cautious

    Colombian guerrilla fighters of the National Liberation Army Monday announced a unilateral Christmas truce from Dec. 24 to Jan. 2, although the measure would only cover the State Military and Police Forces. The ELN also warned they will defend themselves in case of being attacked.

  • Monday, December 12th 2022 - 16:15 UTC

    Social leaders linked to government coalition murdered in Colombia

    Juan Navarro and Luis Peña were murdered last week.

    Unknown assassins killed in the last 72 hours two Colombian social leaders linked to the leftist Historic Pact, the government coalition of President Gustavo Petro, in the department of Bolivar, located in the north of the country, members of that group reported Sunday.

  • Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 10:51 UTC

    Colombia: Mexico agrees to join as guarantor of peace talks with ELN

    ”Mexico accepts the invitation to be a guarantor country at the Dialogue Table between the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN),” a statement said

    President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) Friday told his Colombian colleague Gustavo Petro that Mexico had accepted the invitation to join as guarantor of the peace talks between the South American country's administration and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas.

  • Saturday, November 26th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

    Guarantors of Colombia-ELN peace talks ratified

    Other countries such as Mexico Brazil and the United States might soon join the process

    Negotiators in the Colombian peace process involving the government of President Gustavo Petro and remnants of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas Friday agreed in Caracas to ratify Cuba, Norway, and Venezuela as guarantor countries in the talks.

  • Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 10:39 UTC

    Colombian gov't, ELN resume peace talks in Caracas

    The new talks are a “message of hope” for Maduro

    Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said that “time for peace has arrived” as dignitaries from the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas started their ceasefire talks in Caracas Monday.

  • Tuesday, November 22nd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

    Eight people killed in Medellín air crash

    Various houses were burned down but no casualties were reported among local residents

    Eight people were reported dead after a light aircraft crashed in a residential area after declaring an emergency following takeoff at Medellín's Olaya Herrera Airport, the same air terminal where famous tango singer Carlos Gardel and his band were killed in an airplane crash on June 24, 1935.

  • Saturday, November 12th 2022 - 10:49 UTC

    Venezuelan crisis discussed in Paris

    Macron, Fernández, and Petro iissued a joint statement urging both sides in Venezuela's crisis to resume talks

    The Presidents of France, Colombia, and Argentina Friday discussed in Paris possible ways out of Venezuela's crisis which has sparked a large-scale migration of citizens of that oil-rich South American country.