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Colombia and Venezuela reopen border crossing after 7 years

QCOLOMBIA - Colombia and Venezuela on Monday, September 26, 2022, reopened their border after years of impasse. The reopening was a key campaign promise of Colombian president Gustavo Petro, who assumed office last month. The...

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Colombia Restores Diplomatic Ties With Venezuela

QCOLOMBIA (VOA) Venezuela and Colombia restored full diplomatic relations Sunday after a three-year break,...

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ELN rebels release hostages while returning to peace talks

QCOLOMBIA (Mercopress) As peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army...

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Gustavo Petro sworn in as president

QCOLOMBIA - Gustavo Petro, a former member of Colombia's M-19 guerrilla group, was inaugurated Colombia's first leftist president on Sunday at a ceremony in...

Travel

Arajet Begins Ticket Sales in Colombia

QCOLOMBIA - The first flight of the ultra-low-cost startup airline Arajet is scheduled for September 15th, leaving Santo Domingo at 6:30 am bound for...

2022 Elections

Petro wants FTA with US repenned

QCOLOMBIA (MercoPress) Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro and US Ambassador to Bogotá Francisco Palmieri met Monday to discuss common goals with the incoming administration which...

colombia business

Colombia’s Industrial output shows sharp increase

Q24N (MercoPress) Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) Friday issued a report showing that the country's industrial output during the month of May...

Medellin

Medellin #3 in Time Out’s top 10 best cities

QCOLOMBIA - Every year, Time Out quizzes thousands of city-dwellers worldwide about life in their hometown right now, wanting to know about the restaurant...

Hundreds of Colombians with learning disabilities sterilized every year

502 girls and 127 boys with learning disabilities such as downs syndrome were permanently sterilized...

Medellin

‘Preaching the gospel of nourisment:’ inside Colombia’s ‘Templos Comedores’

Colombia Reports

Colombia finance minister could be sentenced to jail — again

Colombia Reports

Colombia seeking UNESCO recognition of vallenato as cultural heritage

Cali

10-year-old Cali child stabbed 10 times ‘for crossing gang territorial border’

Colombia Reports

Northern Colombia’s desperate need for water

Dollar Exchange

US$1 = COP$3,936.41

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Electric Vehicles

Why electric cars will take over sooner than you think

Q REPORTS (BBC) I know, you probably haven't even driven one yet, let alone seriously contemplated buying one, so the prediction may sound a bit bold, but bear with me. We are in the middle...

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US still offers hope to Latin Americans fleeing violence

Q REPORTS - "Work, work, work!" That's the first thing Cesar Moncado thinks about when he wakes up in the morning. "That's the most important thing for me at the moment," the 38-year-old father...

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Go inside a COVID-19 response at the Venezuela-Colombia border

QCOLOMBIA (IRC) Before the coronavirus pandemic, around 40,000 Venezuelans would cross the Simón Bolívar International Bridge daily to work in Colombia or purchase scarce goods. Pregnant women walked miles to seek critical prenatal care...

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