Colombia

South America 05/05/22, 17:56

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 ...

South America 07/23/21, 05:36

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 ...

South America 06/16/21, 15:37

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 ...

South America 05/09/21, 16:50

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 ...

South America 04/09/21, 15:49

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 ...

South America 08/19/20, 17:16

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 ...

South America 08/05/20, 17:38

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 ...

South America 07/24/20, 11:35

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  ...

South America 07/13/19, 14:56

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 ...

America 06/08/19, 15:08

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 ...

America 05/30/19, 23:17

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, ...

Europe 05/30/19, 00:19

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 ...

America 05/23/19, 23:07

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 ...

Europe 05/20/19, 14:05

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 ...

Science 05/18/19, 14:28

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 ...

America 05/17/19, 19:00

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 ...

Europe 05/16/19, 09:10

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 ...

America 05/15/19, 23:01

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 ...

World 05/13/19, 23:00

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 ...

America 05/10/19, 16:12

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 ...