Tag: Colombia

• Wednesday, February 19th 2020 - 06:45 UTC

  Colombia orders Facebook to strengthen security measures to protect users personal data

  

  Colombia issued an ultimatum to Facebook, telling the Silicon Valley-based tech giant it must strengthen its security measures to better protect users' personal data in the Andean country.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:14 UTC

  “Repentant” Popeye, Colombian Escobar's most notorious hit man dies at age 57

  

  Pablo Escobar’s most notorious hit man, known by the nickname Popeye, died on Thursday at age 57 after a life of crime he celebrated on YouTube, Colombia’s prison authorities said.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Colombian peace accord rapidly failing as ex guerrillas are murdered

  

  More than 100 Colombian former left-wing guerrillas and their family members have left an area designated for them following the murder of 12 fellow ex-rebels elsewhere in the country, the FARC said on Friday.

• 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.