Tag: Colombia
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…
Colombia banned child marriage – indigenous representatives wanted to continue the old practice | Foreign countries
As many as one million Colombian women have been married before the age of 15. Colombia’s parliament has passed a law banning marriages under the age of 18. There had…
COP16 biodiversity ends in Cali, failure of negotiations on financing
The COP16 biodiversity ended on Saturday November 2 in Cali, failing to obtain an agreement on the financing of the roadmap that humanity has set to stop the destruction of…
The closing session of the UN nature meeting stretched by an hour | News in brief
The Finnish delegation at the meeting was led by the Minister of Environment and Climate Kai Mykkänen (chairman). The UN COP16 nature conference organized in Cali, Colombia has stretched into…