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MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Superstar Shakira has handed over more than 20 million euros ($24.6 million) to tax authorities in Spain, a report said Tuesday, accused of not paying taxes despite being a resident between 2011 and 2014. Catalan daily El Periodico reported that the Colombian award-winning singer had paid the money “to settle part of the debt claimed by Spain’s tax authorities”, corresponding to what she allegedly owes for 2011. The fiscal authorities filed […]
by Dave Clark / Joshua Howat Berger Agence France-Presse MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson insisted Friday the US and Mexico are bolstering cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking, brushing aside concerns about the impact of his boss Donald Trump’s anti-Mexican barbs. The US-Mexican relationship has been strained by Trump’s attacks on Mexican immigrants and the North American Free Trade Agreement — and his insistence on building a border wall. Critics say […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Tensions between Colombia’s government and a hold-out rebel group, the ELN, rose Thursday when officials said three of the guerrillas were killed in the bombing of a camp in the northwest of the country. The offensive, part of wider crackdown ordered by President Juan Manuel Santos following a string of deadly attacks on police stations blamed on the ELN, was another blow to peace efforts with the group that have been […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Colombian pop star Shakira on Wednesday cancelled the remainder of her world tour because of a problem with her vocal chords and said she hoped to be back on stage in June of next year. “Though I very much hoped to be able to recover my vocal chords in time to pick the tour back up in January, and after exploring many options to that effect, I have accepted […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Fugitive Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, a key opponent of President Nicolas Maduro, traveled to Madrid on Friday after escaping house arrest in the Venezuelan capital. Ledezma, 62, had hours earlier crossed the border into neighboring Colombia, saying he intended to fly to Europe to organize resistance against Maduro’s rule, which has left millions of Venezuelans facing food and medicine shortages. The opposition leader boarded an Avianca flight from Bogota to Madrid, where he […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) – Visiting Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday condemned the killing of an indigenous leader last week by the ELN guerrillas in violation of its ceasefire with Bogota. “Of course, we condemn the assassination as we would any assassination because to us life is the most precious thing,” Santos told a joint press conference with his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau. Santos said the killing would be investigated by a verification commission comprising the […]
by Raul Arboleda © Agence France-Presse La Montañita, Colombia (AFP) — Felix Salcedo lost an arm fighting during Colombia’s half-century civil war which ended in August. Today, he uses his remaining arm to grow pineapples. Like dozens of other former FARC guerrillas in his village, Salcedo is trying to earn a living legally after his rebel movement disarmed under a December peace deal with the government. Salcedo, 38, thinks back on the half of his life he […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Beyonce has returned to music to raise money for hurricane relief, delivering verses in Spanish in a remix of Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin’s hit “Mi Gente.” The collaboration marks the first new music by the pop superstar since she gave birth in June to twins — whom she references in the song. Beyonce, releasing the song late Thursday, announced on Instagram that all her proceeds would go to […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos declared the country’s 50-year conflict with the FARC guerrilla group “truly over” Tuesday, with the disarming of the rebel group complete. The United Nations-supervised process concluded with the delivery of the last truckloads of weapons from areas where the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) began demobilizing at the start of the year. “With the laying down of arms … the conflict is truly over and a new […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — The United States “will not stand by as Venezuela crumbles,” Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday, but he emphasized a peaceful path even as he stood by President Donald Trump’s startling warning that US military action remained a possibility. “We have many options for Venezuela, but the president also remains confident that working with all of our allies across Latin America we can achieve a peaceable solution,” Pence said in a news conference alongside […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – The leader of the rebel group Colombia’s Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) was released Tuesday from a hospital where he was treated after he suffered a mild stroke, the government said Tuesday. After spending two days in the hospital, Rodrigo Londono has now travelled to Cuba to continue his convalescence, the high commissioner for the country’s peace process said. Doctors said the FARC leader, 58, checked himself into a hospital in Villavicencio in […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) — At least three people were dead and 30 were missing after a boat carrying some 150 tourists sank in a reservoir in northwestern Colombia on Sunday, police said. Officials did not indicate what caused the boat to sink in the El Penol reservoir in the tourist town of Guatape. “So far we have three people deceased” and “approximately 30 missing,” police commander Jorge Hernando Nieto said on BluRadio.
