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Designer Nancy Gonzalez sentenced to prison for smuggling crocodile and python handbags
Celebrity fashion designer, who recruited couriers to transport bags from her native Colombia to US on...
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Panama’s presidential frontrunner vows to ‘close’ Darién Gap
In announcement three weeks before election, José Raúl Mulino gave no details of how he would...
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Colombians told to shower with a partner as drought hits capital water supplies
Bogotá brings in water rationing with El Niño weather phenomenon meaning city could run out in...
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Colombian Amazon deforestation surges as armed groups tighten grip
Country had previously turned the tide on deforestation but armed rebels have revoked banDeforestation in the...
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Colombia ex-president Uribe to face trial for witness tampering and fraud
Álvaro Uribe, one of country’s most powerful figures, denies working with paramilitary death squads against leftist...
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Global rainforest loss continues at rate of 10 football pitches a minute
Despite major progress in Brazil and Colombia, deforestation led by farming still cleared an area nearly...
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Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Descendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia...
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Bernie Moreno says he fled socialism in Colombia for the US in 1971. What does history say?
The Republican challenger to Democrat Sherrod Brown for US Senate in Ohio has made dubious claims...
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Brazil and Colombia voice concern as Venezuela bans opposition candidate
South American neighbours respond to blocking of Corina Yoris, who was favoured to beat strongman Nicolás...
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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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‘Deeply alarming’: sevenfold increase in sexual attacks at Darién Gap, says Médecins Sans Frontières
More than half a million people made treacherous, weeklong trek in 2023, facing horrors including mass...
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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...