Tag: Colombia

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 22:26 UTC

  Buenos Aires' Aeroparque opens up to Colombian routes

  

  Argentina's National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) announced earlier this week that it was allowing flights to and from Colombia could operate at Buenos Aires' metropolitan Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport (AEP / SABE).

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Presidents of Paraguay, Colombia exchange compliments

  

  The conservative presidents of Colombia, Iván Duque, and Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, exchanged compliments Sunday at the Caribbean beach resort of Cartagena de Indias in the framework of the “Bilateral Economic and Trade Commission.”

• Friday, April 22nd 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Colombian main presidential candidate signs document promising to protect private property

  

  The Colombian left-wing candidate, Gustavo Preto and with the most chances of becoming the next president on 29 May, has signed before a public notary a document saying that he will not expropriate private companies or assets.

• Thursday, April 21st 2022 - 21:33 UTC

  Colombia dealt judiciary setback at The Hague

  

  The United Nations' International Court of Justice Thursday ruled by 10 votes to 5 in favor of Nicaragua in a case regarding Caribbean Sea waters Colombia claimed as its own.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 21:00 UTC

  Colombian footballer Freddy Rincón dies aged 55

  

  Colombia's football legend Freddy Rincón died early Thursday morning at the Cali clinic where he had been taking earlier this week following a car accident. He was 55.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Four Colombian soldiers killed by dissident FARC group

  

  Four Colombian regular soldiers were killed in a rural area of the department of Meta after they were ambushed by a group of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the Omega Joint Task Force said in a statement.

• Monday, April 4th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Presidents of Colombia, Ukraine hold phone talk

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez Saturday held a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian colleague Volodimir Zelensky. Duque offered Colombia's assistance to the European leader, given the South American country's long history of handling refugee crises, it was reported.

• Monday, March 28th 2022 - 21:25 UTC

  Girl wounded at bombing of Colombian police station dies

  

  A bomb attack against a police station in the Colombian capital of Bogotá last Saturday has a new fatal victim after a 5-year-old girl who was wounded in the incident died Monday, authorities have confirmed.

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

  Invasive hippos may become a plague in Colombia by 2030

  

  Brought into the country in the 1980s by former drug-trafficking capo Pablo Escobar, the 133 hippopotamuses already in Colombia might reach over 400 by the year 2030, and have thus been declared an invasive species Friday.

• Friday, March 18th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  Office of Medellín's Mayor launches masturbation-awareness campaign

  

  The Office of the Mayor of the Colombian city of Medellín has launched a most unusual campaign on social media to rid masturbation from the moral prejudices surrounding it.