Colombia

Santiago Gallon, one of the most infamous business associates of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, has been assassinated in Mexico, local media reported. Gallon, a financier of paramilitary organization AUC and alleged drug trafficker, was reportedly shot and killed in a restaurant in Toluca, a city in the south of Mexico. According to journalist […]

Colombian President Gustavo Petro appeared on Tuesday to melt into the gilded woodwork of the Oval Office, wearing a gold tie and an uncharacteristically sober dark suit. Seated beside U.S. President Donald Trump, the two-hour meeting appeared—at least on the surface—to be a cordial encounter between political adversaries entrenched on opposite sides of […]

The National Electoral Council (CNE) barred Colombia’s leading presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, from participating in a multipartite primary that sought to unite the left ahead of the elections. The decision forced Cepeda’s party, the Historic Pact, to withdraw from the primary and unleashed a new wave of criticism about the politicized […]

Powerful storm surges and weeks of unusually intense rainfall have triggered widespread flooding across Colombia’s Caribbean coast, affecting more than 50,000 families, damaging homes and infrastructure, and placing hundreds of thousands of livestock at risk, authorities said. The floods have hit the Magdalena River basin and large swathes of northern […]

Paramilitary successor organization EGC suspended peace talks with Colombia’s government after President Gustavo Petro allegedly promised his US counterpart Donald Trump to arrest their commander. In a post on social media platform X, the organization said that its delegation “will provisionally suspend talks with the government in order to conduct […]

Illegal armed groups in Colombia have undergone significant expansions last year and can count on more than 27,000 members, a conflict monitoring NGO said. According to the NGO Ideas para la Paz (FIP), statistics provided by military intelligence indicate that the fighters and unarmed support networks belonging to the monitored illegal armed groups grew 20% […]

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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro met with his US counterpart Donald Trump in the White House on Tuesday for what he called a “positive”  but sometimes “confusing” meeting. The two-hour meeting appeared to have successfully ended an increasingly hostile relation between the governments of United States and its long-time ally in South America, […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro arrived in Washington DC on Sunday for a diplomatic offensive that includes a meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump. In Tuesday’s meeting in the White House, Petro will seek to put forth “Colombia’s priorities and the general lines of bilateral work on matters of common interest,” according to the Foreign […]

Colombia’s Constitutional Court suspended an economic emergency declared by President Gustavo Petro in response to a senate commission’s controversial refusal to put the financing of the government’s budget up for debate. Petro and his cabinet members signed off on the emergency in December in an attempt to close a $4.2 billion (COP16.3 billion) hole […]

Colombian authorities said on Thursday they have found no evidence so far of “external factors” contributing to the crash on Wednesday of a SATENA Beechcraft 1900 aircraft on the Cúcuta–Ocaña route , which killed all 15 people on board. The conclusions were presented during a press conference held at Ocaña airport in the northeastern department

Musical instruments are far more than tools for producing sound: they embody the cultural identity of a territory, carrying spiritual meanings, collective memory, and the deep-rooted expressions that shape a community’s history. Colombia en un Aliento 2026 (Colombia in a Breath 2026) invites audiences on a sonic journey through the country’s wind […]

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On Thursday 5 February, Bogotá will once again ask its citizens to imagine the city differently. For 16 hours, from 5.00 a.m to 9.00 p.m., private cars and motorcycles will largely disappear from the streets as Colombia’s capital marks the 28th edition of its Día Sin Carro y Sin Moto. The annual pause, approved by

Fifteen people, including a congressman, were killed in a plane crash in the northeast of Colombia on Wednesday. The plane disappeared from the radar on Wednesday afternoon while it was flying from the border city Cucuta to Ocaña, another town in the Norte de Santander province. The remains of the aircraft were found by locals The post 15 killed in […]