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Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:03:16 +0000Bogotá’s Teatro Mayor Presents 2026 Season, Germany Guest Nation
The Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo has unveiled its 2026 programme, outlining 116 productions and 178 performances across opera, dance, theatre, music, circus and family shows. The announcement reinforces […]
Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:30:19 +0000Puracé Volcano in Southwest Colombia Shows Increased Seismic Activity
The Puracé volcano in southwest Colombia has registered a noticeable uptick in seismic and gas-emission activity over the last 24-hours, prompting authorities to maintain heightened monitoring of one of the […]
Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:15:01 +0000Caracol Reveals Complicity Between FARC Dissidents and Colombian Army
President Gustavo Petro is confronting explosive accusations of treason and complicity after a Noticias Caracol investigative report revealed alleged channels of communication and the transfer of highly classified military intelligence […]
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:00:40 +0000Colombia Rescues 17 Minors From Ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor Sect
Colombian authorities have rescued 17 minors belonging to Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect widely accused across several countries of child abuse, forced marriage, kidnapping and extreme coercive control. The […]
Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:48:14 +0000Child Recruitment in Colombia Surges 300 Percent Warns UNICEF
Every 20 hours, somewhere in Colombia, a child vanishes into the ranks of an illegal armed group. That is the grim calculation released this week by UNICEF and the United […]
Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:57 +0000Lines on Stone: The Millennial Rock Art of the La Lindosa Range
At the eastern fringes of the Andes, where the Orinoco River Basin unfurls in an ondulating canvas of green, punctuated by majestic rivers and sandstone mesas, lies one of the […]
Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:40:43 +0000María Corina Machado Issues Post-Maduro “Freedom Manifesto”
As the USS Gerald R. Ford navigates uncomfortably close to the Venezuelan coastline and some 15,000 U.S. Marines remain stationed across Caribbean waters, Venezuela’s political crisis has entered a volatile […]
Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:17:26 +0000Colombia Confirms 15 Minors Killed in Army Bombings Against FARC Dissidents
The Colombian government of President Gustavo Petro has acknowledged that at least 15 minors recruited by illegal armed groups were killed in four military operations carried out between August and […]
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:04 +0000USS Gerald Ford Enters the Caribbean: What Next for Venezuela?
The arrival of the USS Gerald Ford in Caribbean waters has raised the stakes in the tense relationship between the United States and Venezuela. The aircraft carrier – the most […]
Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:19:56 +0000Armero: A Journalist Remembers the Night the Earth Turned to Mud
On the night of November 12, 1985, at exactly 10 p.m., the landline rang. “Get ready – the radio car is coming for you,” warned the night controller at the […]
Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:15:40 +0000A Landscape of Loss: Forty Years After Armero
Forty years after the catastrophe that erased Armero from the map, the landscape where the town once stood has taken on the quiet, uncanny stillness of an eroded manuscript. Vegetation […]
Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:13:13 +0000Colombia Reacts to Washington After Petro is Shown as U.S “Prisoner”
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro is considering recalling the Ambassador to the United States, Daniel García-Peña, amid another escalating diplomatic crisis triggered by an AI-generated photo showing the leftist leader and […]
Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:16:56 +0000Palace of Justice: Forty Years, Four Peace Processes, and No Peace
I remember perfectly the morning of November 6, 1985. I was 18 years old, a high school conscript serving in the Presidential Guard Battalion. Chaos reigned. Commanders shouted orders as […]
Sun, 09 Nov 2025 02:00:16 +0000China’s Ruifeng Lin Wins Bogotá’s First International Violin Competition
Bogotá brought its inaugural International Violin Competition to a rousing close on Saturday night, capping a week of performances that reshaped the city’s classical music landscape and signaled the arrival […]
Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:00:40 +0000Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz and Global Rise of Volcano Tourism
Volcanoes are very visible when traveling through most of central Colombia and even though some remain dormant, hikers can climb up to the crater of the active Nevado del Ruíz
Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:03:09 +0000Colombia Marks 40 Years Since Palace of Justice Siege by M-19
Forty years after one of the darkest chapters in Colombia’s modern history, the country is commemorating the 1985 Palace of Justice siege amid fierce controversy over President Gustavo Petro’s attempts […]
Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:45:52 +0000US Hits Seventh Narco-Boat Off Colombia, Blurring Lines Between Ally and Adversary
The United States carried out its seventh missile strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in the Eastern Pacific near Colombia on Tuesday, the latest in a rapidly expanding maritime campaign […]
Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:32:57 +0000EU Leaders Ditch Santa Marta Summit With U.S. Sanctions on Petro
The upcoming EU-CELAC summit in Santa Marta, billed as Colombia’s most ambitious diplomatic event in over a decade, is now being reshaped by a cascade of cancellations from European leaders […]
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:28:13 +0000Bogotá Opens First International Violin Competition With Latin American Celebration
Bogotá is preparing for a milestone in its cultural calendar as it inaugurates the first edition of the Bogotá International Violin Competition on October 30, an ambitious event that aims […]
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:37:21 +0000City of Whispering Walls: Inside Bogotá’s Most Haunted Homes
In Bogotá, the past is never fully at rest. It lingers in courtyards and stairwells, in shuttered colonial mansions and dimly lit gardens, whispering through cracked adobe walls. Nowhere is […]
Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:10:31 +0000FARC Dissidents Linked to Miguel Uribe Turbay Assassination
Nearly three months after the death of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, Colombian authorities say they are closing in on what they believe is the most powerful hypothesis to date: that […]
Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:42:17 +0000Did Venezuela’s ex-spymaster Hugo Carvajal Spark OFAC Sanctions Against Petro?
The U.S. Treasury’s unprecedented decision to sanction Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his inner circle has sparked speculation that recent testimony by Venezuela’s former spy chief, Hugo “El Pollo” Carvajal, […]
Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:28:23 +0000U.S. Deploys USS Gerald Ford to Lead Military Build-Up Near Venezuela
The United States is deploying its largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean as part of the regional military buildup aimed at disrupting narcotics […]
Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:05 +0000U.S. Treasury Puts Colombia’s Petro and Close Circle on ‘Clinton List’
The U.S. Government moved aggressively against Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his inner circle on Friday, imposing sanctions that target his financial and political support network as relations between Washington […]
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:11:42 +0000U.S. Senate Warns of Hezbollah Expansion in Colombia and Venezuela
Hezbollah’s growing foothold in Latin America has found its epicenter in Venezuela and along the porous 2,000-km long Colombia-Venezuela border, where U.S. lawmakers and former counterterrorism officials warn the militant […]