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Colombia's Liberal Party backs center-right Gutierrez for president

Colombia's Liberal Party, which won more seats than any other in the lower house and the third most seats in the Senate in recent legislative elections, on Wednesday threw its weight behind center-right presidential candidate Federico Gutierrez.

Reuters

Submarines, the new weapon of choice for Colombian drug traffickers

In the jungle of southern Colombia, drug traffickers go to extraordinary lengths to protect their cocaine shipments. Illegal drug labs are hidden in the forest, along with makeshift naval bases, where the cartels build their own submarines to export their cocaine to the US market. As a result, authorities are…

France 24

Colombia poverty declined in 2021, but still above pre-pandemic levels

Poverty levels in Colombia fell last year versus 2020, amid an economic recovery in the Andean country, but have yet to return to levels seen before the coronavirus pandemic, the government said on Tuesday.

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Biden Is Deporting Venezuelans to Colombia

"It's abundantly clear [Trump] has no regard for the suffering of the Venezuelan people," Biden said in October 2020 before engaging in many of the same practices toward asylum seekers.

Reason

Exclusive: Isiah Thomas, NBA Star And President Of One World Products, To Visit Colombia This Week

One World Products, Inc. (OTCQB: OWPC), the largest Black-controlled, fully-licensed hemp and cannabis producer in Colombia, announced Monday that its Chairman and CEO, Isiah Thomas, will visit Cali and Bogotá in Colombia between April 26 and 28, 2022.

Benzinga

‘Bye Bye Chicago’ faces death and friendship in this year’s Chicago Latino Film Festival

The locally produced feature-length film is about a young Colombian college student and the unlikely friendship she shares with an aging Mexican immigrant.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kinahan cartel's alleged drug route through Europe's busiest ports exposed

A huge crackdown in Colombia has also seen a fall-off in production, impacting on the cartel’s business

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Women in poorest parts of Merseyside die younger than those in Colombia, Latvia and Hungary

It is "a somewhat disappointing showing for the world's fifth largest economy"

Liverpool Echo

Colombia presidential candidates agree need for pension reform

Candidates most likely to win Colombia's presidential elections on Friday agreed for the need to reform the country's unbalanced pension system so that it provides greater coverage for millions of poor people and redirects subsidies.

Reuters

Colombia court says 5,733 people killed, disappeared in campaign against left-wing party

Some 5,733 people were killed or disappeared in Colombia as part of a campaign against the left-wing Patriotic Union (UP) party between 1984 and 2016, acts linked to paramilitaries with military backing, the country's transitional justice tribunal said on Friday.

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Ecuador police capture 18 suspected members of criminal group

Ecuador's national police have captured 18 suspected members of a criminal group who could have ties to drugs and arms trafficking, as well as murders and terrorism, with possible ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, the organization said on Friday.

Reuters

Cocaine seizures soar in Chicago, surrounding states, as DEA ‘snow’ forecast comes true

Heroin and marijuana have long been Mexican cartels’ big moneymakers in Chicago. But DEA cocaine seizures rose 50% in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana in the year ending Sept. 30 and keep rising in the Chicago area.

Chicago Sun-Times

Woman who miscarried paid 2 hitmen to murder homeless pregnant woman then steal her baby

The lifeless body of Sandra Johanna Alvarez Solano, 37, was found in a roadside field outside Bogota, Colombia - she had been brutally murdered with cuts to her throat, face and abdomen

Daily Mirror

Offers To Help Lonely Pensioner Flood In After Angels Convinced Her To Give Up Euthanasia Plans

Fabiola Betancourt, 70, asked her health insurance company Mutual ser EPS to organize euthanasia, legal in Colombia since 2015.

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UN court: Colombia infringed Nicaragua's rights in Caribbean

The United Nations’ highest court has ruled that Colombia breached Nicaragua’s rights in waters of the Caribbean Sea

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World Court rules Colombia must cease activities in Nicaraguan maritime zone

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday ruled that Colombia must "immediately cease" patrolling and trying to control fishing activities and maritime research in parts of the west Caribbean that the court said are part of Nicaragua's exclusive economic zone in those waters.

The Times of India

Lahiri in running for place on International team for President's Cup

CHARLOTTE (US): India's Anirban Lahiri, who has two President's Cup appearances to his name, is once again in the running to make the international team after a superb show at the PLAYERS Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

The Independent UK

Colombian candidate says he won't nationalize property

Colombian presidential frontrunner Gustavo Petro pledged that he will not nationalize private property if he wins the nation’s presidency this year as critics in the South American country accuse the leftist candidate of wanting to make radical changes to the country’s free market economy

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Asharq Al-Awsat

With Unprecedented Coachella Showing, Latin Music Continues US Dominance

An unprecedented number of Latin acts performed at this year's Coachella, commanding the festival's main stage as the popularity of Spanish-language music soars. In total this year's line-up saw 20 artists from Latin America and its diaspora performing at the premier music festival in the California desert -- up from…

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Easter Feaster: Animal Trafficker Busted Smuggling Over 2,000 Turtles Destined To Be Eaten

For Catholics, Easter means abstaining from eating meat on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and the other Fridays leading up to Easter.

The Guardian - UK

Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library

The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him

The Independent UK

El Chapo cartel member arrested in Colombia after model girlfriend posts photos on Facebook

Trafficker wanted in 196 countries

The Times of India

Sreenidi's Colombian forward Castaneda is also an engineer in making

KOLKATA: Sreenidi Deccan FC's Colombian forward David Castaneda is not just good at scoring goals but is also good in academics, currently pursuing a degree in industrial engineering.

Benzinga

Rewriting The Cannabis Narrative In Colombia: Part 2

In 2016, Colombia passed a landmark framework regulating the production, distribution, sale, and export of seeds and other cannabis derivatives<

Al Jazeera

Football World Cup eliminations dash small business hopes

From Colombia to Nigeria, traders in football-loving nations are counting losses of failure to make it to Qatar 2022.

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