Tag: Colombia
Colombia: clashes between the ELN and the ex-FARC leave more than 80 dead and 11,000 displaced
In Colombia, the toll of violence in the Catatumbo region is increasing. According to local authorities, more than 80 people have been killed, mainly civilians, and more than 5,000 have…
60 people killed in bloody clashes in Colombia | News in brief
In South America, in the northern part of Colombia, 60 people have died in violence between armed groups in recent days. Colombian authorities said on Saturday local time that the…
Nearly 40 killed in fighting in Colombia | News in brief
Armed groups have been fighting for decades for control of land in the border region, where a lot of cocaine is grown for the international market. In Colombia, at least…
Venezuela closes its border with Colombia for three days
Venezuela and Colombia share a 2,200 km-long border. Venezuelan Nicolás Maduro, who has just been sworn in for a third term, ordered its closure for three days this Friday, citing…
the tale from beyond the grave of Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamus
On screens this January 1, the story of a hippopotamus, Pepe, one of the animals from the personal collection of Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug trafficker. Crowned with the directing…
Cocaine seizures on the rise in Colombia | News in brief
The Colombian armed forces said on Tuesday that in 2024, the country seized about 35 percent more cocaine than the previous year. In the current year, a total of 626…
a risky but rather successful bet according to the Colombians
The first eight chapters of the series A hundred years of solitude, adaptation of the famous novel which earned its Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez the Nobel Prize for Literature…
That image of the female hitman nicknamed ‘doll’ caused a stir!
A 23-year-old woman named Karen Julieth Ojeda Rodriguez, who carried out a series of murders under the command of the Los de la M gang, nicknamed ‘Doll’, was recently caught.…
a new cocaine route discovered between Colombia and Australia
A record seizure of 225 tonnes of cocaine was made in the space of six weeks during a vast international operation against drug trafficking. No less than 60 countries participated.…
Phasing out oil and coal – Colombia goes against the grain
The winner of Colombia’s 2022 election, President Gustavo Petro, had phasing out fossil energy as a central part of his election campaign. Now the country’s left-wing government is fulfilling its…