Colombia
Feared Colombian drug boss Otoniel extradited to the US
Colombia extradited alleged Gulf Clan leader Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, known as Otoniel, to the United States on Wednesday, Colombian President Iván Duque said. https://twitter.com/IvanDuque/status/1521988027664547848 According to Duque, Otoniel is the most dangerous drug trafficker globally, comparable only to Pablo Escobar, and is a murderer of police officers and abuser of children ...
Catastrophic bungee-jumping accident: woman leaps 164 feet off bridge before cord attached
This week, a Colombian bungee jumper died when a communications error prompted her to jump off a bridge before she was connected to the bungee cord.Yecenia Morales, 25, and her unknown boyfriend went on an expedition organized by local company Sky Bungee Jumping to the Amagá viaduct, a popular bungee ...
Colombia: 2 bombs leave dozens wounded including U.S. Southern Command soldiers
Two explosions in a car bomb caused at least 36 injuries at the Colombian Army's Brigade 30 base, where at least 12 military personnel from the U.S. Southern Command were stationed, some of whom were injured. The military base is located in the city of Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, on ...
Colombia: Violent riots may be part of Nazi tactic to overthrow government
While the widespread destruction of Colombia's infrastructure continues, and the inhabitants suffer deprivations of all kinds, a controversial dialogue has been established between the Colombian government and the alleged representatives of the protesters. However, "Nobody knows why and nobody knows for what purpose or under what conditions," says the prominent Colombian ...
Euthanasia in Colombia: Congress does not approve the bill even 24 years later
The Colombian House of Representatives did not reach the number of votes necessary to approve a bill proposing euthanasia regulation, which for many citizens is good news. According to the national media El Tiempo, this part of the legislative process is pending since 1997—the year in which the Constitutional Court decriminalized ...
Recently released Colombian guerrilla in the US requests immediate deportation to Italy
The lawyer for former right-wing paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso asked a federal court in the United States to force Justice Secretary William Barr to deport him immediately to Italy. Mancuso was released on March 11 on a drug trafficking conviction. According to AP News, the emergency request was filed Monday in ...
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe ordered to be placed under house arrest
On Tuesday, Colombia's Supreme Court ordered former President Alvaro Uribe to be placed under house arrest while he is under investigation for bribing and manipulating witnesses who were to testify against him. The home confinement of former President Uribe was unanimously defined. The current Senator will serve his term of imprisonment ...
AOC asks Trump government not to finance coca eradication in Colombia
On July 17, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sent an amendment to the Congressional Rules Committee asking that no part of the funds that the United States sends to Colombia be used for fumigation of illegal crops, according to the Leaders League. AOC wrote, " None of the amounts authorized to be appropriated ...
US extradites former Colombian agriculture minister to serve 17 years in prison
Last Friday, the United States government extradited to Colombia former Agriculture Minister Andrés Felipe Arias, who is awaiting conviction in his country for embezzlement among other crimes. The Colombian Embassy in Washington received a note last Thursday, July 11, from the U.S. government notifying Colombia of the extradition of the former ...
Thousands pour into Colombia as Venezuela reopens border
Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had been shut down for the past four months. Long lines of Venezuelans stood at two international bridges near the city of Cúcuta waiting to have ...
Migrants traverse the deadly last stretch of Darien jungle
At first they appeared only as weary silhouettes emerging from the dense foliage on the other side of the Tuquesa River. Three women, one leaning on a stick for support, and two others carrying their few belongings on their heads accompanied by a 2-year-old boy. Two men, one carrying a machete, ...
Angela Merkel to address Harvard’s graduating class
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to address Harvard University graduates.The Ivy League school is hosting its 368th commencement ceremony Thursday with a keynote speech from Merkel.It caps several days of activities that also included speeches from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos.The ...
Colombian breeds rare frogs to undermine animal traffickers
In a small farmhouse surrounded by cloud forest, Iván Lozano inspects dozens of glass containers that hold some of the world's most coveted frogs.The conservationist has been fighting the illegal trade in rare tropical frogs for years, risking his life and his checkbook to save the brightly colored, poisonous amphibians ...
Battle breaks out for WikiLeaks founder Assange’s computers
With Julian Assange locked away in a London jail, a new battle has broken out over what may contain some of the WikiLeaks founder's biggest secrets: his computers. On Monday, judicial authorities from Ecuador carried out an inventory of all the belongings and digital devices left behind at the London embassy ...
Ex-rebel hospitalized in Colombia day after polemical arrest
A former Colombian rebel leader was hospitalized with signs of "altered consciousness" on Saturday, a day after being freed from jail and then rearrested in a highly-politicized drug case that has strained relations with the U.S.Authorities at Colombia's National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences did not provide further ...
Ex-rebel in Colombia recaptured after release from jail
A former Colombian rebel leader was re-arrested by police Friday moments after his release from jail by a peace tribunal whose ruling against extraditing him to the U.S. triggered an institutional crisis and revived debate about justice for victims of the country's armed conflict.Prison authorities escorted Seuxis Hernández in a ...
Spanish court clears Shakira, Vives of plagiarism
A Spanish court has cleared Colombian singers Shakira and Carlos Vives of a plagiarism claim after rejecting a lawsuit brought against them by a Cuban-born singer and producer.The court in Madrid issued its ruling in favor of Shakira and Vives on Thursday.Livan Rafael Castellanos had accused Shakira and Vives of ...
Panama sees surge in migrants crossing perilous Darien Gap
Venise Felizor lay on a mattress in a warehouse-turned-shelter on a hot, sticky afternoon with her 20-month-old son, Wesly, in her arms, the boy coughing and wailing after suffering from diarrhea for days.Originally from Haiti, they recently appeared in this tiny Panamanian village after a six-day hike through the jungle ...
Venezuela exodus raises worries of babies being stateless
Arelys Pulido had already lost one baby in a neglected Venezuelan hospital where doctors and medical gear are in increasingly short supply, so when she got pregnant again she decided to give birth in a foreign land.She packed suitcases filled with clothes and a few prized ceramic statues of saints ...
Venezuela opens sea, land access with Aruba, Brazil
The Venezuelan government is seeking to ease the country's isolation, reopening borders with Aruba and Brazil after shutting off sea and land access in February to block the opposition from delivering humanitarian aid.However, neighboring Colombia accused Venezuela of supporting terrorism by allegedly hosting Colombian rebels, and the United States warned ...

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