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Montevideo, December 26th 2024 - 04:30 UTC

Tag: Colombia

  • Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

    Guaidó ambassadors will try to win the support from Russia and China

    The plan aims to convince Russia and China to back Guaido, the former head of Venezuela's National Assembly living in Colombia, Julio Borges, pointed out.

    Ambassadors designated by Juan Guaido, the Venezuelan opposition leader recognized by most Western nations as the country's president, have met in Colombia to discuss how to win the support of China and Russia, staunch allies of President Nicolas Maduro.

  • Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:25 UTC

    World Bank grant for Colombia to help deal with Venezuelan refugees

    Resources “will help finance the significant fiscal effort Colombia is making to host and help the Venezuelan migrants,” Colombia's Minister Alberto Carrasquilla said

    Colombia will receive a US$ 31.5 million grant to help deal with the flood of refugees from neighbouring Venezuela, the World Bank announced on Friday Colombia has received about a third of 3.7 million refugees who have fled the worsening crisis in Venezuela in recent years - the most dramatic and fastest exodus in the world after war-torn Syria, according to the United Nations.

  • Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

    NATO does not discard Latin American countries joining as alliance partners

    “Until 2017, NATO didn’t have any partners in Latin America and then in 2017 we got our first partner, which was Colombia,” the NATO leader said.

    NATO can look at the possibility of other Latin American states joining Colombia in becoming alliance partners, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday, while appearing to rule out U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Brazil could one day become a full member of the North Atlantic security body.

  • Friday, March 29th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Colombia: The humanitarian situation worsened, alerted Red Cross

    The report indicates that Venezuelan migrants, as they pass through Colombia, are exposed to extortion and recruitment by various armed groups

    The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) presented on Thursday the balance of its main humanitarian concerns in Colombia, highlighting a deterioration of security conditions in the most remote areas of the country. The cases of armed conflicts and the violence that has continued to plague Colombia in recent decades, as well as the recent mass exodus of Venezuelan migrants, showed a complex humanitarian context.

  • Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 07:31 UTC

    Seven countries have launched the Forum for Progress of South America

    Presidents and representatives from Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Paraguay and Guyana signed the joint declaration

    South American countries on Friday launched the Forum for the Progress of South America (Prosur), a new regional bloc which seeks the “integration and strengthening of the region.”

  • Thursday, March 14th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

    Argentina and Colombia will host the 2020 Copa America; US proposal rejected

    The next edition of the tournament, usually played by all 10 South American nations and at least two invited guests, is due to be held in Brazil in June.

    The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) has rejected a proposal from the United States and awarded the 2020 Copa America tournament to Argentina and Colombia. CONMEBOL officials meeting in Miami on Wednesday said the joint bid was accepted as a way of “bringing South American football to the fans” and would be subject to a more detailed presentation by both countries.

  • Wednesday, March 13th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

    Shell agrees offshore oil exploration contracts in Colombia

    Shell will explore blocks COL 3 and GUA OFF 3, which cover about ​​880,000 hectares.

    Colombia’s government announced it had signed two exploration and production contracts with Shell in offshore areas of the Caribbean Sea that will require the company to make initial investments of US$ 100 million.

  • Saturday, March 9th 2019 - 19:16 UTC

    Colombia: Plane crash leaves a dozen dead

    12 people would have died after the disaster

    A DC-3 model aircraft with registration number HK2494 that had been declared in emergency fell on Saturday to land in the center-east of Colombia after not finding where to land, local media reported.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 10:15 UTC

    Colombia to begin oil exploration offshore in the Caribbean

    Ecopetrol will mount at least two exploratory wells, the statement said, and is optimistic the bloc will yield gas reserves in the medium term

    Colombia and its state-run oil company, Ecopetrol, announced they have signed an offshore exploration and production deal for a nearly 400,000-hectare (988,000-acre) bloc in the Caribbean, the country's first new oil and gas contract in more than four years.

  • Tuesday, February 26th 2019 - 19:47 UTC

    326 Venezuelan armed forces officials have defected in Colombia

    Some of the uniformed arrive “with their arms, their uniforms, as civilians or with their family” and claim to be fleeing from the pressure of the collectives, the Venezuelan pro-government guerrilla

    The number of members of the Venezuelan Armed Forces who defected across the Venezuelan-Colombian border since Saturday, February 23, has risen to 326, according to Colombian immigration authorities.