Tag: Colombia

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Colombian mother and her three children survived 34 days in the Peruvian jungle

  

  Colombian mother and her three children aged 14, 12 and 10 have been found by indigenous Peruvians 34 days after they were reported missing, authorities say. They said they had managed to survive by eating seeds, plants and berries.

• Wednesday, January 29th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Fugitive Colombian senator who escaped on a motorcycle captured in Venezuela

  

  Special Forces in Venezuela have captured the fugitive Colombian former senator, Aída Merlano. Ms Merlano, who was serving a 15-year sentence for vote-buying, gave prison guards the slip in October.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 09:16 UTC

  Anti government protestors clash with riot police in several Colombian cities

  

  Riot police firing tear gas and stun grenades clashed with rock-throwing demonstrators in Bogota as anti-government protests resumed across Colombia, leaving 11 people injured and nearly 100 arrested.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 07:28 UTC

  Pompeo reaffirms full support for Guaidó and calls on other countries to help remove Maduro

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says his country will take additional measures in support of Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Pompeo called on other countries to co-operate in efforts to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 09:05 UTC

  Guaidó will meet with Pompeo at counterterrorism conference in Colombia

  

  Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has travelled to Colombia to participate on Monday alongside Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a regional counterterrorism meeting — a new show of support by the Trump administration for the man it says is the country’s legitimate leader.

• Monday, January 13th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

  Colombian police thwarts death attempt on FARC ex guerrilla leader

  

  Colombian police thwarted an assassination attempt against Rodrigo Londoño, former commander of the demobilized Farc rebels better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, a senior official said on Sunday.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 14:25 UTC

  Colombia eradicated 100.000 hectares of coca in 2019, president Duque reports

  

  Colombia, a top source of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, eradicated more than 100,000 hectares of the crop last year, President Ivan Duque said on Thursday. The Andean country has come under repeated pressure from the United States, an important destination for cocaine shipments, to reduce coca cultivation, especially as crop figures shot up in recent years.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Colombia's capital first woman mayor promises to fight “racism, class distinctions and xenophobia”

  

  Bogota's first woman mayor Claudia Lopez took office on Wednesday, promising leadership in the troubled Colombian capital and pledging to fight “racism, class distinctions and xenophobia.”

• Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:00 UTC

  Strong earthquakes strike Colombia, with no reports of injuries or major damage

  

  Two strong earthquakes, of magnitude 6.2 and magnitude 5.7, struck central Colombia on Tuesday, the Colombian Geological Service said, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries or major damage.

• Thursday, November 28th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Colombian president caught between demands from businesses and people protesting in streets

  

  Widespread street protests in Colombia are likely to force embattled President Ivan Duque to make major changes to his tax reform proposal if he wants to pass the bill before a year-end deadline.