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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro came under fire after forensic investigators found that the army killed seven minors in a bombardment that also cost the lives of 13 alleged members of FARC dissident group EMC. In a press statement, the director of the prosecution’s forensic medicine institute, Ariel Cortes, said that it received the remains of The […]

The arrival of the USS Gerald Ford in Caribbean waters has raised the stakes in the tense relationship between the United States and Venezuela. The aircraft carrier – the most

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro walked back his threat to stop sharing intelligence with US security agencies after a storm of criticism. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said Wednesday that the intelligence community, “including US agencies,” will have access to “communication that guarantees that it will be used for seizures without […]

Colombia’s army killed 19 guerrillas of FARC dissident group EMC in a major operation in southern Colombia, according to the defense minister. The military operation was carried out in Guaviare, a province on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez said Tuesday on social media platform X. Sanchez said that another three The post […]

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On the night of November 12, 1985, at exactly 10 p.m., the landline rang. “Get ready – the radio car is coming for you,” warned the night controller at the

Colombia’s Interior Minister Armando Benedetti called the magistrate investigating his alleged involvement in corruption “crazy, demented” and “a criminal” after she ordered a raid on his home. In a video posted on social media platform X, Benedetti angrily revealed that Magistrate Cristina Lombana and 30 investigators were raiding his home in […]

President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombia’s intelligence agencies to stop sharing information on drug trafficking with their United States counterparts until US President Donald Trump stops ordering strikes on boats in the Caribbean. Petro announced the order on Twitter after US television network CNN reported that the United Kingdom suspended intelligence […]

Forty years after the catastrophe that erased Armero from the map, the landscape where the town once stood has taken on the quiet, uncanny stillness of an eroded manuscript. Vegetation

President Gustavo Petro said Monday that he ordered bombardments on the presumed location of dissident FARC guerrilla chief “Ivan Mordisco” in the jungles of southern Colombia. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said that “I have ordered the bombing and military dissolution of the front line established by the military forces.” The The […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro is considering recalling the Ambassador to the United States, Daniel García-Peña, amid another escalating diplomatic crisis triggered by an AI-generated photo showing the leftist leader and

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro called the summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) in the city of Santa Marta over the weekend “a great success.” The meeting, co-chaired by Petro and European Council President Antonio Costa, concluded with pledges for stronger ties in trade, climate change, […]

Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office announced that a court in the city of Medellin convicted four of the ELN’s top guerrilla chief for the forced recruitment of 60 minors between 2002 and 2019. In a press release, the prosecution said that the conviction refers to the ELN’s “ongoing and systematic” forced recruitment of minors in the The […]

President Gustavo Petro recalled Colombia’s ambassador in the United States for the second time in a month over an alleged plot to falsely link him to drug trafficking organizations. Petro made the decision after news publication Cambio published a photo taken by the White House that shows a Trump administration official holding open a folder The post […]

I remember perfectly the morning of November 6, 1985. I was 18 years old, a high school conscript serving in the Presidential Guard Battalion. Chaos reigned. Commanders shouted orders as