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Over 3,000 stranded as boat captain arrests halt Darién Gap migration
Attempt to stop movement through perilous rainforest leaves people stuck in two remote Caribbean townsMigration towards...
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Warlord behind 1,500 murders returns to Colombia after 12-year sentence in US
Salvatore Mancuso was taken into police custody and is expected to cooperate with investigation into war...
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Colombia vows to put nature at the heart of global environmental negotiations
The environment minister Susana Muhamad says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisisThe next...
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‘Very afraid’: Colombian human rights lawyer loses security after winning prize
Adil Meléndez Márquez received call from bodyguards 20 minutes after Sir Henry Brooke award from Alliance...
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Medellín authorities to meet embassies and dating apps after five foreigners die
Cluster of cases in seven days follows spate of druggings and robberies of tourists, some of...
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Suspect allegedly involved in shooting of Spain Vox party co-founder is arrested in Colombia
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, a former vice-president of the European parliament and co-founder of Spain’s Vox party, was...
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Colombia: at least 34 killed after mudslide hits busy road
Dozens of people also injured after mudslide in mountainous area on road connecting major citiesThe death...
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Visitors to Colombia warned over dating apps after eight US deaths in two months
US embassy issues warning after US citizens died in Medellín following suspected drugging and robbing on...
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Ecuador ‘at war’ with drug gangs, says president as violence continues
Daniel Noboa designates nearly two dozen gangs as terrorist groups after wave of violence across countryEcuador’s...
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Record half million people crossed the treacherous Darién Gap in 2023
Jungle between Colombia and Panama marks the start of the dangerous trek north from South America...
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Nearly 21ft bronze statue of Shakira unveiled in her home town in Colombia
In social media posts, the singer thanked the sculptor Yino Márquez and his students for their...
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Colombia looks to recover billions in treasure from ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
But critics say the raising of the San José, sunk in battle with British ships in...
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Two Guinean children abandoned in Bogotá airport as migrant routes shift
Migration through the treacherous Darién gap is slowing as less restrictive air routes open up between...
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Middle-class fear of green policies fuels rise of far right, Colombia’s Petro warns
Guerrilla leader turned president says, faced with having to reduce their carbon consumption, upper classes fear...
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Plant fossils turn out to be turtles in ‘unusual misidentification’
Re-examination finds what were taken to be veins of leaves are actually bone growth patternsTwo small,...