Tag: Colombia

• Sunday, October 25th 2020 - 09:02 UTC

  Colombia joins the “select” club of countries with a million confirmed cases of Covid-19

  

  Colombia reached 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases on Saturday, becoming the second country in Latin America to report that number in less than a week. The nation of 50 million saw cases peak in August and has seen a decline since but still continues to register around 8,000 new infections a day.

• Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 09:28 UTC

  Colombian organizations take over the center of Bogotá to protest against government

  

  Protesters filled a historic square in Colombia’s capital on Wednesday to demonstrate against the government’s handling of a wide range of issues including the economic fallout of the pandemic and implementation of the peace accord.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Colombia ex president Uribe released from house arrest while probe on witness tampering continues

  

  A Colombian judge on Saturday ordered an end to house arrest for former president Alvaro Uribe, who is under investigation for alleged witness tampering and fraud.

• Tuesday, October 13th 2020 - 08:28 UTC

  Columbus Day in Colombia: Thousands of indigenous people march demanding an end to violence

  

  Thousands of indigenous people demonstrated in southwestern Colombia on Monday demanding an end to violence, on the day commemorating Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas. Dressed in green and red and carrying traditional sticks, the demonstrators converged on the city of Cali where they hope to meet President Ivan Duque.

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Latin America resuming normal social and public life too soon, warns WHO

  

  Latin America has started to resume normal social and public life at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic still requires major control interventions, World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne warned.

• Monday, September 14th 2020 - 11:55 UTC

  Mayor of Bogota calls for reconciliation following nights of shootings and rioting because of police brutality

  

  The mayor of Bogota begged forgiveness on Sunday and called for reconciliation after protests in Colombia's capital the past week left 11 civilians dead and hundreds injured.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 10:14 UTC

  Deaths and rioting: Colombian defense minister apologizes for police brutality that triggered Bogotá protests

  

  Colombia's defense minister apologized on Friday on behalf of the national police for an incident of police brutality that sparked two nights of protests that rocked parts of the capital Bogota and satellite city Soacha, leaving 11 dead and hundreds injured.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Latin America passed 300,000 confirmed deaths of coronavirus and 8 million contagion cases

  

  The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in Latin America passed 300,000 on Wednesday, according to several independent tallies, with the virus showing no signs of abating in the world's worst-hit region.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Colombia opened South America's longest road tunnel, 8,5 kilometers

  

  Colombia opened South America’s longest road tunnel, the Tunel de la Linea, on Friday after more than a decade of construction work. The tunnel, which is 8.65 km long, aims to reduce the time and cost of moving goods from the Pacific port city of Buenaventura to the centre of the country.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 09:44 UTC

  Colombia reopens and tries to reignite the economy after months of restrictions

  

  Airports, bus terminals, restaurants, and gyms reopened in most of Colombia on Tuesday as the nation attempts to reignite its economy following months of restrictions for the coronavirus pandemic. The step expanded previous moves that allowed shops, construction sites, shopping malls, and factories to resume operations in June in most of the country's cities.