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Sophia Smith, Rose Lavelle lead U.S. women’s soccer team to 3-0 win over Colombia

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — The U.S. women’s soccer team beat Colombia, 3-0, on Saturday night in the first of a two-game series that serves as the final tuneups for next month’s World Cup and Olympic qualifying tournament.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest

Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high deforestation rates in the Amazon

The Independent UK

Colombia president-elect Petro names peace envoy as foreign minister

Colombia's leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro named long-time politician and peace envoy Alvaro Leyva as the first member of his future cabinet on Saturday, ahead of Petro's August inauguration.

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Yes, the Left is back in Latin America

In many ways, the new ‘pink tide’ points to a different Left, as Gustavo Petro’s election in Colombia shows

The Hindu

Roe v Wade overturned: what abortion access and reproductive rights look like around the world

The global landscape of reproductive rights is constantly shifting. The US Supreme Court ruling that has overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 decision that protected a woman’s right to have an abortion – marks a significant regression for abortion access. But it is not the only case. While…

The Conversation

Colombia president-elect firms up congressional allies; handover begins

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro on Thursday began to firm up party alliances that could give him a congressional majority and met with the country's current president to start the handover process.

Reuters

Colombia: president-elect looks to build governing coalition

President-elect Gustavo Petro, who has vowed to lift up Colombia’s poor and disenfranchised, has won the support of an influential party of the establishment as he tries to build a majority coalition in Congress

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Paradigm shift: On Colombia’s first leftist President

Under a new President, Colombia has an opportunity for stable growth after years of drug wars

The Hindu

The Guardian view on Colombia’s election: a chance for a change

Editorial: The emergence of a progressive politics in a country traditionally in the grip of the right should be welcomed

The Guardian - UK

NBA Star Isiah Thomas Had A Dream Of Making Hemp Cars, And He's Making It Happen: 'All Plastics Will Be Made From Cannabis'

By Javier Hasse and Nicolás José Rodríguez.

Benzinga

Ultimate Sports Enters Negotiations To Acquire A Licensed Cannabis Producer In Colombia

Ultimate Sports, Inc. (OTCPK:USPS) entered into negotiations to acquire Sannabis S.A.S., a Colombian cannabis company. Sannabis, and affiliated companies, hold all four cannabis licenses: seed use, THC-cultivation, non-THC (hemp)-cultivation, and fabrication/export. Ultimate Sports, Inc. will acquire Sannabis S.A.S.

Benzinga

‘The PCC are after me’: the drug cartel with Paraguay in its clutches

A Brazilian former prison gang is threatening to turn its neighbour into a narcostate and its deadly tentacles extend much further

The Guardian - US

Colombia’s president-elect talks to Maduro about reopening border with Venezuela

Colombia’s president-elect Gustavo Petro is wasting no time in fulfilling his promise of normalizing relations between his country and the socialist regime in Caracas, discussing with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro the reopening of the border between the two nations three days after winning the election.

Miami Herald

Latin America's new 'pink tide' gains pace as Colombia shifts left; Brazil up next

Latin America's new "pink tide" is gaining pace after Colombia elected its first leftist leader Gustavo Petro, with Brazil expected to follow suit in elections in October, an echo of a regional political shift in the early 2000s.

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Daily Record

Alfredo Morelos feels the Rangers love amid transfer intrigue as birthday boy brings back iconic celebration

The 26-year-old marked his big day in Colombia with a couple of winks to Rangers fans.

The Independent UK

Inside a reintegration camp for Colombia’s ex-guerrilla fighters

For the almost 13,000 former Farc guerrillas, the end of the conflict in 2016 initiated a process of ‘disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration’. Camilo Tamayo Gomez and Gavin Hart spoke to the ex-combatants looking to move on

The Independent UK

Leftist's election to test Colombia's alliance with US

It’s one of the United States’ few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation’s drug cartels

Reuters

Colombian President-elect Petro says he had 'very friendly' call with Biden

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday he had had a "very friendly" telephone call with U.S. President Joe Biden.

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'I escaped my home country disguised as a grandmother in a wheelchair to flee to Wales'

Niloha Rangel, who is a doctor, fled her home country of Venezuela by disguising herself as an old woman in a wheelchair as she crossed the Venzuelan-Colombian border

The Independent UK

Colombian voters elect country's first Black vice president

As Colombia’s voters put aside a longtime antipathy to leftists and chose one as their new president, they also have carved out another milestone — electing for the first time a Black politician to be vice president

ABC News

Colombia's new president was once part of a guerrilla group with a wild history. Now he promises social change

Colombia's new President, Gustavo Petro, was once a member of M-19 — a wild rebel group that stole the Sword of Simon Bolivar and is rumoured to have worked with and against Pablo Escobar.

Reuters

Colombia rebels open to talks with new president

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The Independent UK

Petro faces challenges to deliver Colombians promised change

Colombia for the first time elected a leftist as its next president, but the narrow victory with only a 3-percentage-point margin is a cue that a large portion of the South American country rejects the ambitious proposals of Gustavo Petro

Reuters

Colombia ELN rebel group open to peace talks with next president Gustavo Petro

Colombian leftist guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) is open to advancing peace talks with the incoming government of President-elect Gustavo Petro, it said on Monday, and called for reforms to tackle social exclusion and inequality.

The Guardian - UK

Gustavo Petro: first leftist president faces tough challenge in Colombia

Despite the election euphoria, Petro has a thin mandate and is viewed with suspicion by many

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