Colombia

Volcanoes are very visible when traveling through most of central Colombia and even though some remain dormant, hikers can climb up to the crater of the active Nevado del Ruíz

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro arrived in Brazil on Thursday to attend the COP30 UN climate conference. Delegates from around the world convened in Belem, the capital of the Amazonian state of Para, to discuss progress and plans to combat climate change. Petro proposed investing $500 billion to boost the generation of clean energy in Latin The post […]

Forty years after one of the darkest chapters in Colombia’s modern history, the country is commemorating the 1985 Palace of Justice siege amid fierce controversy over President Gustavo Petro’s attempts

The majority of Colombia’s voters has not yet decided who they will vote for in the upcoming presidential election in May 2026, according to the first poll after a suspension on public polls was lifted. In the Cifras Y Conceptos poll, only 38% of the polled voters said to have decided on who to vote The post Majority of Colombia’s voters are undecided: […]

Sources at Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office told Spanish newspaper El Pais that the Colombian survivor of a US drone strike on an alleged narco-submarine was released due to a lack of evidence. The victim, Jonathan Obando, had already been released from the Kennedy Hospital in Bogota on October 28 where he was admitted because of The post […]

The United States carried out its seventh missile strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific near Colombia on Tuesday, the latest in a rapidly expanding maritime campaign

Colombia’s Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez urged people to report alleged plans to attack politician after Interior Minister Armando Benedetti reported that unidentified drones were monitoring his home. In a post on social media platform X, Benedetti reported that drones were flying over his home, “a car was going from corner to corner” in front and […]

The upcoming EU-CELAC summit in Santa Marta, billed as Colombia’s most ambitious diplomatic event in over a decade, is now being reshaped by a cascade of cancellations from European leaders

The favorite presidential candidate of Colombia’s left, Senator Ivan Cepeda, joined President Gustavo Petro’s opposition to escalating US aggression in South America and the Caribbean. In a video statement published on social media platform X, Cepeda warned that recent “extrajudicial killings” of alleged drug traffickers were in direct violation of […]

Colombia’s Liberal Party and former President Alvaro Uribe agreed to join forces to prevent a leftist victory in the presidential election next year. Following a meeting with Uribe on Friday, former President and long-time Liberal Party leader Cesar Gaviria said that “we are organizing ourselves to effectively bring together a coalition of parties that […]

The credibility of the magistrate who acquitted former President Alvaro Uribe is being questioned for similarly controversial rulings issued in the past. Bogota appeals court magistrate Manuel Antonio Merchan surprisingly absolved Uribe of his fraud and bribery charges earlier this month in a ruling that revoked a 12-year prison sentence. One of Merchan’s […]

Colombia will break ties with its US fuel provider after President Gustavo Petro was denied service in Cape Verde. The company allegedly denied service while Petro was flying to Saudi Arabia, citing fears that the president’s inclusion on the so-called “Kingpin List” could lead to “severe penalties,” according to newspaper El Pais. The […]

Bogotá is preparing for a milestone in its cultural calendar as it inaugurates the first edition of the Bogotá International Violin Competition on October 30, an ambitious event that aims

In Bogotá, the past is never fully at rest. It lingers in courtyards and stairwells, in shuttered colonial mansions and dimly lit gardens, whispering through cracked adobe walls. Nowhere is

Guerrilla group ELN laundered more than $225 million (COP885 billion) through a network of front companies in eastern Colombia, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office. In a press statement, the prosecution said that ELN associates laundered more than $10 a year obtained from kidnappings, extortion, illegal mining and drug trafficking through front […]