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Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:00:46 +0000Why Venezuela’s role in Colombia’s peace talks could become a problem
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro is taking a major risk by resuming peace talks with ELN guerrillas in Venezuela. Petro’s peace commissioner Danilo Rueda announced earlier this month that the neighboring…
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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 16:19:45 +0000
Colombia’s tax chief supports legalization of cocaine
The director of Colombia’s tax agency DIAN has joined other government officials and politicians calling to legalize cocaine. DIAN director Luis Carlos Reyes said on Twitter that “you have to…
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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:34:51 +0000
At least 20 dead in southwest Colombia bus crash
At least 20 people were killed and at least 14 were injured in a traffic accident in southwest Colombia. The fatal accident happened on Saturday morning on the Pan-American Highway…
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Fri, 14 Oct 2022 14:36:01 +0000
How money laundering inflates US-Colombia trade statistics
US authorities have registered more than $30 billion in imports from Colombia over the past decade that don’t appear in the South American country’s export statistics. The discrepancy in the…
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Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:47:03 +0000
Humanitarian crisis in northwest Colombia due to mass migration
Local authorities in northwest Colombia said that mass migration to Central America has caused a humanitarian crisis on border with Panama. According to the ombudsman of Necocli, his town in…
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