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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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Situation worsens in Pacific Colombian port city
Colombia’s troubled western port city, Buenaventura, has been fighting violence, human rights issues, discrimination, and more for years now. The Commission for Safety and...
In the land of coffee, but not coffee drinkers
COLOMBIA is renowned the world over for is fine Arabica coffee beans. Oddly, few Colombians appear keen on the stuff. Each consumes just 1.5kg...
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Colombia leads, US lags, in global drug policy reform
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos is a world leader in trying to reform global drug policy. But when he spoke at the recent United...
Gender policy is failing women in Colombia
From Colombia Reports
Although Colombia seems to have a number of the right policies for improving gender equality, structural challenges and slow uptake risk making...
Ciénada: A Sleeping Beauty
By Jacqueline de Klerk, (City Paper Bogota) – Situated along the north coast of Colombia between the expanse of the Ciénaga Grande and the...
Boat Sinks in Colombia After Capsizing, At Least 6 Dead, Dozens Missing
TODAY COLOMBIA - A tourist boat packed with about 160 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Medellin. At...
‘Neiva is 4th Largest in Buying apparel in Colombia’
The capital city of Neiva in the Department of Huila, Colombia is the fourth largest in per capita spending on clothing, announced the business...
21 Dead, Dozens Hurt in Colombia Car Bomb Explosion
A car bomb exploded Thursday, January 17, at a police academy in Bogota, leaving at least 21 people dead and dozens injured, Colombian police...
FARC Frees Kidnapped Colombian soldier: ICRC
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Sunday the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group has already released Colombian solider...
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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