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Montevideo, January 26th 2026 - 03:49 UTC

Tag: Colombia

  • Monday, June 6th 2022 - 20:47 UTC

    Colombian President sentenced to 5 days' house arrest

    Duque's effective arrest is completely unlikely given his constitutional immunity

    A Colombian court in the town of Ibagué has issued an arrest warrant against President Iván Duque for disobeying a previous judicial mandate to protect the Los Nevados National Natural Park located in the “Eje cafetero” (Coffee Axis) region, it was announced.

  • Monday, June 6th 2022 - 10:29 UTC

    Detainee in Pecci case threatens Colombian authorities

    Colombian authorities are still searching for Venezuelan national Gabriel Carlos Luis Salinas

    A suspect arrested in Colombia in connection with the May 10 killing of Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci Friday threatened to kill officers of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) during the hearings.

  • Saturday, June 4th 2022 - 09:59 UTC

    Colombia: Five arrested in Pecci's murder probe

    Barbosa explained the arrests were made in two operations

    Colombian authorities have arrested five people in the city of Medellín, presumably linked to the murder of Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci while he was honeymooning at an exclusive Caribbean beach resort in Cartagena de Indias, Attorney General Francisco Barbosa announced Friday.

  • Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 09:27 UTC

    Different candidates for PAHO chair

    Mercosur has two candidates for PAHO's top job, the Uruguayan Salinas is one of them

    The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Thursday announced candidates from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, and Uruguay were vying to succeed Dominica's Carissa Etienne of Dominica as agency head.

  • Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 09:34 UTC

    Former Cali Cartel capo dies in US prison

    El Ajedrecista had funded Ernesto Samper's presidential campaign. His methods were softer and more subtle than those of Escobar

    Wednesday's death at a US prison of former Cali Cartel capo Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, aka El Ajedrecista (The Chessman), who used to wage his own war against rival trafficker Pablo Escobar of the Medellín Cartel, has revived stories of the 1980s and 1990s which have been romanticized through the entertainment industry.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 20:48 UTC

    Colombia: Survey shows Hernández two points ahead of Petro

    With a margin of error of 2.8%, the polling center speaks of a technical tie

    Colombia's surprising runner-up in last Sunday's elections Rodolfo Hernández is poised to become the country's next president, according to a survey conducted by the Centro Nacional de Consultoría.

  • Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 09:48 UTC

    Colombia: Coal miner dies, other 14 trapped inside after explosion

    Colombia recorded 148 deaths in mining accidents last year

    Miner Fabio Cáceres García died Tuesday as a result of “an explosion of methane and coal dust” in El Zulia in eastern Colombia, while 14 other workers remained trapped, it was reported.

  • Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:55 UTC

    “Colombian Trump” now 3 weeks from being elected

    After failing to foresee he would make it to the runoff, pollsters are already heralding the “Colombian Trump” will beat Petro

    Non-leftwing voters have all their eggs now in Rodolfo Hernandez's basket, after the candidate many dub the “Colombian Trump” made it to the second round against all forecasts, to face off former M19 guerrilla leader and current Senator Gustavo Petro June 19.

  • Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

    Surprise runner-up to take on Petro in Colombia's presidential runoff

    Petro would be a “threat to democracy,” said third-place finisher Fico Gutiérrez who urged his followers to support Hernández in the second round

    Leftwing candidate and former M19 guerrilla leader Gustavo Petro, 62, won Sunday's presidential elections in Colombia, as all polls had foreseen. But he will face 77-year-old populist Rodolfo Hernández at the runoff in three weeks, which nobody saw coming.

  • Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

    More prosecutors killed in Latin America

    Three leading prosecutors have been murdered in Latin America in May. Almendares was 39.

    Following the assassination of Paraguay's Marcelo Pecci while honeymooning in Colombia, two other crimes have hit Latin American prosecutors in the last days of May.