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United States authorities will repatriate former Medellin Cartel boss Fabio Ochoa on December 12, according to Colombia’s police chief. In a press statement, General William Salamanca confirmed that the 67-year-old…
Colombia and Russia “reactivate” bilateral ties
Nov 15, 2024 · Colombia’s Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo paid a visit to Moscow that sought to “reactivate” ties with Russia and promote peace in Ukraine.
Colombia to impose visas requirements on British citizens
Nov 27, 2024 · Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that his government will impose visa requirements on British citizens in response to tightened visa requirements imposed by the United Kingdom.. In a message on social media platform X, Petro said “the Colombian government will ask visas to British citizens” after Great Britain’s ambassador to Colombia, George Hobson, said that Colombians ...
Colombia’s military eliminates joint task forces
Nov 4, 2024 · Colombia’s military commander ordered the elimination of joint task forces that were created in 2003 to combat guerrilla group FARC, which largely demobilized in 2017.. The military command also ended the so-called Specific Command forces that were created under the administration of President Gustavo Petro to combat paramilitary group …
Poverty and inequality - Colombia Reports
Sep 25, 2023 · Poverty in Colombia decreased in last year after a major surge caused by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.. Colombia’s poverty rate. Colombia poverty rate dropped slightly in 2022, the statistics agency DANE said in its annual report. According to the DANE, almost 19 million people lived off less than $97,94 (COP396,864) per month last year.
Colombia’s prosecution confirms plea deal with jailed former …
Nov 19, 2024 · The prosecution said Monday that it had reached a plea agreement with several corrupt former executives of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD. In the deal, the former UNGRD executives and…
CEO of Israel’s NSO Group laundered money in Colombia: Petro
Oct 24, 2024 · Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro accused the director of controversial Israeli military contractor NSO Group of illegally flying at least $5.5 million out of Colombia in a clandestine arms deal.. According to Petro, NSO Group CEO Ran Gonen was one of eight people on a private aircraft that flew to Colombia in June of 2021 to pick up $5.5 million, the first of two payments made by officials ...
M-19 | Colombia Reports
Mar 22, 2018 · Colombia’s 19th of April Movement, or M-19, was active as a guerrilla group in the 1970s and 1980s and later became a political party.. Unlike other Colombian guerrilla groups, the M-19 was not founded on communist principles but rather democratic ones, with an aim to strengthen and create a more inclusive democracy.
Uribe helped plan 1997 massacre, former warlord tells Colombia's …
Nov 20, 2023 · The former commander of the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC told Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP that former President Alvaro Uribe was involved in a 1997 massacre.. Former AUC chief Salvatore Mancuso accused Uribe of being involved in the planning of the 1997 El Aro massacre in the north of the Antioquia province in an unclassified testimony before the JEP.