Colombia

The director of one of Colombia’s most powerful business associations, Bruce Mac Master of the ANDI, resigned amid tensions with President Abelardo de la Espriella. In a letter to the ANDI, Mac Master said that “it is time for me to step down from my role as head of the National Association of Entrepreneurs of The post Colombia’s top corporate […]

A proposal to deploy Colombia’s armed forces in three of Bogotá’s most populous localities has opened a new debate over the role of soldiers in urban security, days after President Abelardo De La Espriella ordered a military deployment in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta following a wave of violence attributed to a criminal organization.

The 15th International Festival of Sacred Music of Bogotá enters its final week with a programme that brings together Renaissance polyphony, Latin American sacred traditions, and a grand adieu with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Among the week’s principal events is the Bogotá debut of The Tallis Scholars, the British vocal ensemble founded and directed by […]

Colombia’s government published a draft decree that seeks to tighten regulations on public protests. The draft was published weeks before labor unions and social organizations plan regional anti-government protests ahead of a national strike that is set for November. The draft seeks to update the Decree #3 of 2021, which was issued months before a The […]

At least 10 police officers were wounded Tuesday in a series of attacks involving drones and explosives in two regions of Colombia, as armed groups continue to employ unmanned aircraft against security forces and the country records a growing number of mass displacement events. The first attack occurred at the former Tunía toll station in

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Ten years after Colombia first signed its historic peace agreement with the FARC, the country’s experiment with transitional justice has reached a critical moment. The anniversary arrives not as a celebration of an uncontested peace, but amid a confrontation over the future of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, or JEP, the tribunal established to […]

President Abelardo De La Espriella kept one of his most closely watched campaign promises on Thursday, remaining in Colombia to attend to the security situation in Santa Marta and Cali, rather than travelling to Manhattan for the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Instead, the president entrusted his first address to the UN

Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it had broken diplomatic ties with Iran and designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. The foreign ministry made the announcements in two separate statements that were published in its website. In the first statement, the government claimed that the decision claimed […]

Santa Marta-based organized crime group ACSN said Wednesday that the lockdown it has imposed on parts of Colombia’s Caribbean coast will be lifted on Friday morning. In its first formal statement, the ACSN said that “the armed strike announced for 72 hours will end at 7:00AM on Friday 25 September 2026.” The lockdown, which was The post ACSN extends […]

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An uneasy calm settled over Santa Marta on Wednesday, with the Caribbean-facing boardwalk of the city’s historic waterfront noticeably quieter than usual, its bustling street vendors absent and the early-morning joggers few and far between. Across the old city, colonial streets that would normally be filling with residents, tourists and workers remained […]

A wildfire that began on the hills above Colombia’s historic town of Villa de Leyva has spread into the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Iguaque, with more than 700 hectares of the protected area now affected and two fire fronts still active. The emergency, which began on September 19 in the La Castellana area and

Colombia has withdrawn its participation in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Tuesday. In a statement, the court in The Hague said that Colombia’s government “decided to withdraw the Declaration of intervention that it had filed… on 5 April 2024 in the case concerning Application of the […]

Santa Marta woke on Tuesday to deserted streets, closed businesses and suspended transport following the killing of a senior commander of the Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada (ACSN), as President Abelardo De La Espriella vowed to pursue the armed group’s leadership. José Luis Pérez Villanueva, alias “Cholo”, described by authorities […]