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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, as a new leftist government in Bogota takes shape.
A new Colombian ambassador, Armando Benedetti, arrived in Caracas and said on...
ELN rebels release hostages while returning to peace talks
QCOLOMBIA (Mercopress) As peace negotiations between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) kick off in Cuba, the guerrilla movement has released nine people who were being held hostage since last month...
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 Bogota.
Some 100,000 people, including Spanish King Felipe VI and at...
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 Barranquilla, arriving at 7:20 am local time (Colombia is one...
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 might include renegotiating the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed ten...
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 of 2022 had grown 29.9% compared to the same month...
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 scene and the bar circuit. The theaters and the art...
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Homicides in Colombia down 5% in 2015
Homicides in Colombia dropped for the sixth consecutive year, according to the South American country’s chief of police.
The director of the National Police, General...
$95 for a T-shirt? Son of Pablo Escobar sells T-shirts featuring kingpin’s image
Nearly two decades after Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar died in a hail of bullets, his eldest son is conquering new markets in Mexico...
Argentina: What is Alberto Fernández looking for with his rude and decadent dictatorship?
Q24N - Mauricio Macri spent the four years in office neglecting his electorate and trying to ingratiate himself with a public that would never...
Spanish photographer feared kidnapped in northern Colombia
A Spanish photographer has been missing in northern Colombia, said Reporters Without Borders on Monday.
Borja Lazaro, 34, was reported missing on January 23 by...
The Most Hated Man in Colombia?
Mike's Bogota Blog - Not long ago, was a somewhat obscure, if polarizing, government official and Gustavo Petro was mayor with a popularity problem.
Then...
Santos denies US request to extradite ‘FARC narco’
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Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos has denied a request from the United States to extradite a FARC member accused of drug trafficking, reported local...
Colombian President Assures Investors: ‘We Don’t Expropriate’ Foreign Companies
In the wake of Argentina's decision to nationalize Spanish-controlled oil and gas company YPF SA (YPF, YPFD.BA), Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday...
4 family members assassinated in north Colombia massacre
Four members of one family have been massacred in the north of Colombia, local authorities confirmed Saturday.
According to the government secretary of Antioquia, a...
Police rescue kidnapped Colombian-American in Medellin
Colombian police rescued a Colombian-American who was kidnapped three weeks ago by notorious Medellin-based criminal gang, "La Oficina de Envigado."
A Colombian businessman with U.S....
Former Bogota city official charged with corruption
A Bogota judge sentenced ex-Bogota ombudsman Francisco Rojas Birry to eight years in jail for corruption, W Radio reported Friday.
Francisco Rojas Birry was found...
What you should know about the visa to enter Europe from 2023
Q TRAVEL - Citizens of at least 60 countries traveling to Europe will need, starting in 2023 an authorization to enter the European Union. Called the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) it...
Pandemic generated the loss of 25 million jobs in Latin America
Q24N (EFE) The covid-19 pandemic generated the loss of 25 million jobs and 3 million closed companies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This was stated this Monday by the head of the division for...
Petro discusses reopening borders with Maduro
QCOLOMBIA - Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro Wednesday announced he had contacted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to discuss the reopening of the border between the two countries once he takes office, which was part of...
In the liberated land of the Colombian comuneros
QCOLOMBIA (IlManifesto) Cauca is the cradle of the culture of the original Nasa people in Colombia, an Andean region that has been and continues to be the scene of bloody conflicts: from the resistance...
Francia Márquez, the voice of the “nobodies”
QCOLOMBIA - Raised fist, discreet smile, African attire. Environmental lawyer Francia Márquez overcame Colombia's hidden racism and became this Sunday the first Afro-descendant elected vice president of a country governed, until now, by white...
A divided Colombia begins its transition to its first leftist government
QCOLOMBIA - Colombia began the transition to its first leftist government at the hands of senator and former guerrilla Gustavo Petro, who proposed a "great national agreement" to carry out ambitious reforms in the...
Covid-19 vaccine will be mandatory in Colombia
QCOLOMBIA - In the framework of the new decisions that the national government is making in response to how to address the omicron variant, the Minister of Labor, Ángel Custodio Cabrera, reported on Wednesday,...
Nine tourists rejecred for not meeting the requirements to enter Colombia
QCOLOMBIA - On Tuesday, December 14, the measure that requires international travelers to have a covid-19 vaccination card or certificate to enter Colombia by air came into force.
Faced with the measure, the Ministry of...
Colombia to require negative PCR test or vaccination certificate
QCOLOMBIA - Travelers to Colombia must present a negative covid-19 PCR test or a vaccination certificate starting today, December 14, 2021.
The PCR test must be taken within 72-hours of a flight if unvaccinated, while...
Colombia will apply third dose of covid-19 vaccine to population over 50 years old...
QCOLOMBIA - Colombian Health authorities will begin this Friday the application of the booster dose against covid-19 in the population over 50 years of age.
It is a measure adopted to contain the increase in...
President Duque: “Colombia to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030”
QCOLOMBIA - President Iván Duque, during his participation on Monday in the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, announced the strategy "Path to Zero", with which a long-term strategy is sought to guide the...
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