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Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:15:48 +0000Southwest Colombia massacre highlights ongoing increase in violence
A massacre of four people in southwest Colombia on Wednesday painfully highlighted the ongoing increase of violence in the country. According to Senator Valencia Feliciano, an native Colombian leader from…
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Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:30:20 +0000The pandemic’s devastating impact on poverty in Colombia
The coronavirus pandemic made Colombia’s poverty rate one of the highest in South America, according to the United Nations. The UN’s Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)…
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Wed, 07 Apr 2021 11:00:28 +0000Colombia strips courts of powers that block Duque’s authoritarian ambitions
Colombia’s justice minister on Tuesday stripped the judicial branch of powers that force the increasingly authoritarian President Ivan Duque to abide by the law. Only Congress is allowed to legislate…
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Wed, 07 Apr 2021 05:00:03 +0000Colombia’s hospitals collapsing, COVID-19 vaccination drive in chaos
A third surge in COVID-19 infections is collapsing hospitals in Colombia as if the coronavirus pandemic were a game of dominoes. The University Hospital, one of Medellin’s largest, said Tuesday…
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Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:50:34 +0000Sexual violence against Colombia’s children requires different response
Despite the rejection of most criminal policy experts, Colombia’s Congress approved life imprisonment for child rapists. Society was willing to forgive the most terrible massacres of demobilized guerrilla group FARC,…
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