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BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began his tour of Latin American countries on Monday in Colombia, where combatting drug trafficking topped the agenda. Blinken met with Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first ever leftist president, who has harshly criticized the war on drugs as a failure. After Colombia, Blinken will travel to Chile and Peru, which also recently elected leftist presidents. But in Colombia, Petro’s policy of offering an olive-branch to leftist […]
SAN ANTONIO DEL TACHIRA, Venezuela (AFP) – Venezuela and Colombia on Monday reopened their border to vehicles transporting goods following seven years of partial closure, including three years in which it was fully closed due to a political spat. Colombia President Gustavo Petro and representatives of the government of Venezuela leader Nicolas Maduro attended the ceremony. The first truck left San Antonio del Tachira on the Venezuelan side of the border just after midday and […]
CARTAGENA, Colombia (Reuters) – United States Vice President Mike Pence met with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his cabinet at the Presidential House in Cartagena upon his arrival to the South American country on Sunday (August 13). Colombia is the first leg of Pence’s Latin American trip that will also include stops in Argentina, Chile and Panama. Pence’s regional tour comes amid a sudden escalation of tensions between Washington and Caracas after President Donald […]
BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP) – A fan of the Colombian football team Millonarios was killed by three fans wearing T-shirts of rival Atletico Nacional, police said Wednesday. The unprovoked assault happened Tuesday night at a bus station in Bogota, police inspector Oscar Solano told Caracol television. Press reports said the man was stabbed and died later in a hospital. “A Bogota family is in mourning because football fans allegedly attacked someone,” Solano said in a […]
BOGOTA, Columbia (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday (June 24). Three people were killed and eight wounded when an explosive detonated in a women’s restroom at the Andino shopping center on June 17. Four men and four women, members of The People’s Revolutionary Movement (MRP) rebel group, […]
GUATAPE, Columbia (Reuters) – Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia’s Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said. Officials did not disclose the cause of the accident and provided few details. Videos posted on social media showed motorboats coming to the aid of passengers on the upper decks as the boat rocked from side to side. Ninety-nine […]
by Valeria Pacheco Agence France-Presse BOGOTA, Columbia (AFP) -Colombia’s leaders and main rebel groups pledged Sunday that a mall bombing that killed three women would not disrupt the country’s peace process, even as authorities scrambled to find out who was behind the carnage. The victims — two Colombians and a Frenchwoman — perished when a device exploded in a ladies’ restroom in the crowded Andino shopping center in Bogota on Saturday. At least nine people […]
