Tag: Colombia

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Constitutional Court greenlights medically assisted suicide in Colombia

  

  Colombia's Constitutional Court Wednesday ruled by 6 votes to 3 to decriminalize medically assisted suicide. Euthanasia in Colombia is already legal, but in this case, it is the patient and not the doctor who executes the action to end his or her life.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Paraguayan anti-drug prosecutor shot dead while honeymooning in Colombia

  

  Paraguayan Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci, whose area of expertise was the fight against drug trafficking, has been shot dead Tuesday while on a honeymoon trip on the Colombian island of Baru near the city of Cartagena, it was reported.

• Saturday, May 7th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Gulf Clan lashes back at Colombian society to defend their leader

  

  Around a dozen, vehicles were burned, and businesses and schools were closed as fear gripped ordinary Colombians in various parts of the country as they came across threatening pamphlets warning of an “armed strike” by the Gulf Clan in retaliation for Otoniel's extradition.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 19:45 UTC

  Bachelet envoy at odds with Colombian Gov't over FARC massacre

  

  The Government of Colombia said the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' envoy had everything mixed up regarding the responsibilities of the State in the Bojayá massacre perpetrated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas 20 years ago.

• 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.