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Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:19:21 +0000Colombia’s main cities shut down as COVID threatens to collapse healthcare
Residents of Colombia’s three largest cities woke up to another weekend-long curfew on Saturday as the coronavirus has hospitals on the brink of collapse. The curfew took force a day…
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Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:07:17 +0000Joe Biden and Colombia | Part 2: ending the ‘War on Drugs’
President-elect Joe Biden wants to end the United States’ so-called “War on Drugs,” which may force Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to drastically revise domestic drug policies. Duque gladly returned to…
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Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:45:27 +0000Fear in northern Colombia over former paramilitary leader’s return
The repatriation of former paramilitary warlord Hernan Giraldo, a.k.a. “The Drill,” is causing unrest in northern Colombia where some of his children are engaged in a turf war. Giraldo was…
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Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:30:49 +0000What COVID taught Colombia about cocaine | Part 1: the tsunami
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a game-changer for Colombia’s cocaine trade and global counternarcotics efforts. While US president Donald Trump visited the Mexican border, authorities in the Netherlands said Tuesday…
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Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:00:43 +0000Colombia reveals first specifics of COVID vaccination campaign
Colombia’s health ministry revealed the first specifics of the unprecedented campaign that seeks to vaccinate the country’s inhabitants against COVID-19. In a media presentation, Health Minister Fernando Ruiz revealed how…
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