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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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",...

Venezuela and Colombia to reopen borders

QCOLOMBIA - Venezuela is to reopen its border with Colombia, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said in a state television address on Monday, October...

5 years after FARC deal, peace remains elusive

QCOLOMBIA - In September 2016, the Colombian government signed a peace deal with the rebel group FARC. A look at the guerrillas who started...

Gustavo Petro, ¡Basta ya!

SEMANA Editorial - Gustavo Petro is today the favorite candidate in the polls that measure the intention to vote for the next presidential elections....

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...

Why Colombian protesters are taking to the streets

QCOLOMBIA - For the past two weeks, mass protests that started on April 28, have rocked Colombia, leaving at least 42 people dead and hundreds...

Nobody Likes Ivan. Here’s Why!

QCOLOMBIA - Colombians took to the streets last week despite COVID Pandemic restrictions to protest the administration of President Ivan Duque (above). Though the Fiscal...

‘Cartel of the Robe’ Reveals High-Level Corruption in Colombia’s Courts

InsightCrime.org - A former chief justice of Colombia’s Supreme Court has been found guilty of corruption in a case that illustrates how the highest...

Colombia in conundrum over Pablo Escobar’s hippos

(Narco Legacy In Colombia) By the time he died, Colombia's biggest drug lord, Pablo Escobar, had managed to amass a huge fortune. He left behind...

Colombia Investigates Its Armed Forces for Venezuelan Espionage

The Venezuelan dictatorship has caused a geopolitical mess in recent weeks amidst the lockdown and a crisis accentuated by the pandemic. First, it declared...

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