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Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:43:19 +0000Qatar Airways opens a new aviation corridor between Bogotá, Caracas and Doha
The launch of the airline’s twice-weekly South American service offers more than a new connection for Colombians. Its strategic importance may lie in linking Venezuela’s vast energy resources with Gulf investment capital and opening a new...
Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:41:05 +0000ACOTUR: Tourism as an Instrument of Regional Recovery
As Popayán prepares to host the VIII ACOTUR Sustainable Tourism Summit, Cauca is seeking to turn its extraordinary agricultural biodiversity, cultural heritage and nature-based tourism potential into an engine for rural development, international in...
Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:35:19 +0000Airbus explores investment to develop Colombia’s aviation sector
The Toulouse-based aircraft manufacturer will send representatives to Bogotá next week as the De la Espriella government looks to attract industrial investment and strengthen the country’s role in aviation. BOGOTÁ — Colombia is seeking a place ...
Wed, 04 Nov 2026 17:13:04 +0000Truck Bomb Explodes Near Patía on Colombia’s Pan-American Highway
An explosives-laden dump truck targeting a police substation in El Estrecho, southwest Cauca, was detonated before security forces could intercept it, resulting in one victim, six injured and damaging nearby homes and businesses. POPAYÁN – An ...
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:31:28 +0000Why Does the Earth Keep Shaking in Chaparral, Tolima?
An unusual seismic swarm in the central lowlands of Colombia has produced more than 1,400 recorded earthquakes since September. A magnitude 5.6 tremor on Tuesday morning, felt as far away as Bogotá, has renewed questions about the geological forces ...
Tue, 03 Nov 2026 10:15:37 +0000De la Espriella Renews Military Offensive Against Dissidents After Planadas Bombing
Colombia’s Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to intensify airstrikes, special operations and aerial coca eradication following a wave of terror attacks across Tolima, Huila and Cauca that left civilians dead, including a two-month-old baby. Presid...
Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:10:06 +0000British National Arrested with Silenced Pistol in Medellín’s Parque Lleras
Leigh Simon Elston, 38, was carrying a CZ handgun, a silencer and 24 rounds of ammunition when police stopped him in the city’s main nightlife district of El Poblado. Mayor Federico Gutiérrez says security operations will continue. MEDELLÍN â...
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:46:01 +0000De la Espriella orders temporary militarization of Cúcuta
The temporary deployment of the Army in Norte de Santander’s capital follows the assassination of a former senior municipal official and a series of bomb attacks, as the government confronts expanding criminal networks along the Venezuelan bord...
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:44:56 +0000De la Espriella Takes His Crime Crackdown to Bogotá With 172 Arrests
The President’s personal involvement in high-profile police raids, his pledge to govern from within Colombia and proposal for military control in southern Bogotá is putting a hardline security strategy to the test. President Abelardo de la Espriel...
Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:57:14 +0000Bogotá Moves to Curb Halloween Violence One year After Moreno Death
Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán’s administration is reintroducing nighttime motorcycle restrictions and deploying more than 400 District personnel as the capital prepares for Halloween, days after two men were sentenced for the killing of the 20-year-...
Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:55:06 +0000Colombia’s De la Espriella Leads Medellín Crime Crackdown
President Abelardo de la Espriella personally accompanied a major security operation in Medellín overnight on Monday, as police, military personnel and prosecutors carried out coordinated raids targeting criminal networks accused of involvement in h...
Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:28:59 +0000Deicy Jiménez Alleges Sex-for-Contracts Network Under Petro
Photographs of cash, suspected drugs and clothing, alongside reported government contracts worth more than COP$100 million, have intensified allegations that public resources were used to facilitate Petro’s private encounters. The ex-President deni...
Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:28:15 +0000María Corina Machado’s Return to Venezuela Tests Washington’s Managed Transition
After nearly ten months abroad, Venezuela’s opposition leader has returned to a country still governed by Nicolás Maduro’s former deputy, raising fresh questions about the role of Colombia, the Trump administration and the prospects for free ele...
Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:25:38 +0000Eva Ferrer to Take Allegations Against Verónica Alcocer to US Authorities
Former presidential adviser Eva Ferrer is preparing to travel to Washington next week to present allegations concerning former Colombian First Lady Verónica Alcocer to US authorities, potentially moving a politically-charged scandal beyond Colombi...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:54:22 +0000Germán Vargas Lleras Family to Denounce Petro Over ‘Valledupar Pact’
The controversy surrounding the alleged Pacto de Valledupar escalated on Wednesday after Enrique Vargas Lleras, co-director of the Cambio Radical party, announced plans to file a complaint against former president Gustavo Petro over allegations that ...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:43:53 +0000Thirteen Colombian Soldiers Remain Stranded in Cauca After Black Hawk Crash
Rescue efforts continue in rugged terrain near Inzá, Cauca, where difficult weather conditions have delayed the evacuation of 13 Army personnel following the October 19 helicopter crash. INZA – Thirteen Colombian Army soldiers remain stranded ...
Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:49:14 +0000Colombia Seizes 7.6 Tonnes of Cocaine in Cartagena’s Biggest Port Bust
Colombian authorities seized on Tuesday, October 20, close to 8 tonnes of cocaine hidden inside a shipping container at the Port of Cartagena, in an operation described by the Presidency as the largest drug seizure at the Sociedad Portuaria in the pa...
Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:45:24 +0000Who Gets to Tell Colombia’s Story? National Museum on Frontline Over Historical Memory
At least 30 National Riot Police officers stood outside Colombia’s National Museum on Monday as academics, artists and historians gathered to debate a question that reaches far beyond the objects recently removed from display: who gets to decide ho...
Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:54:16 +0000De la Espriella Targets Wokeism and Petro’s Revisionism of Colombia’s M-19
President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered Culture Minister Paola Holguín to remove images and references to former M-19 guerrilla commander Carlos Pizarro from government public spaces, opening a new front in the battle over how Colombia rememb...
Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:51:43 +0000Colombia’s Jerusalem Embassy Marks Dramatic Break With Petro’s Anti-Israel Policy
Colombia’s inauguration of its Embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday marked a dramatic reversal of former president Gustavo Petro’s ideologically-biased international relations, restoring a diplomatic relationship that had been severed over Israel’...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:26:37 +0000Bogotá to deploy over 4,000 anti-riot police in day of protests against De la Espriella
More than 4,000 members of the National police’s Anti-riot Squad – ESMAD – are expected to be deployed on Bogotá’s streets on Wednesday as former president Gustavo Petro prepares to join trade unions in a nationwide mobiliz...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:58:08 +0000British-Born Cancer Specialist Dies After Medellín’s EDC Music Festival
The death of a British-born cancer specialist after an electronic music festival in Medellín this weekend has cast a shadow over the Colombian debut of one of the world’s best-known dance music brands. A second foreign attendee from Costa Rica...
Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:16:01 +0000From Cemetery Duty to a U.S. Indictment: Timochenko’s Name Resurfaces in Maduro Case
The image is striking. With machete in hand, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, better known by his wartime alias Timochenko, is clearing vegetation and debris among the graves at the San Antonio de Padua cemetery in Pitalito, Huila. The former top commande...
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:15:15 +0000With FARC’s Political Party Over, Colombia’s Peace Accord Faces Deadline
Nine years after Colombia signed its historic peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), one of the central political promises of the Final Accord has run out of road. Comunes, the party formed by the last FARC Secretaria...
Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:03:18 +0000De La Espriella Sets Ground Rules for Indigenous Protest in Conflict Region
President Abelardo de la Espriella has set clear ground rules for an indigenous mobilization scheduled for October 11–14 in Cauca, guaranteeing the right to peaceful protest while warning that his government will not permit road blockades, violence...