Colombia
Colombia
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:27:54 +0000President of Colombia’s Constitutional Court falsely accuses mother of extramarital child of rape
The president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court has been forced to retract false claims that his extramarital child was the result of sexual abuse. Constitutional Court Magistrate Jorge Enrique Ibañez made the sexual abuse and other false claims ...
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:15:51 +0000At least 6 soldiers killed in northern Colombia drone and mortar attack
Guerrilla group ELN allegedly killed at least six soldiers and injured another 28 in a drone and mortar attack on a military base in northern Colombia. The attack took place in Aguachica, a municipality in the Cesar province that is considered of maj...
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:09:52 +0000Colombia’s former ministers of finance and interior jailed on corruption charges
A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s former finance and interior ministers be sent to jail while they are being tried on corruption charges. According to the prosecution, Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla and former Interior Minister Luis Fernando ...
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 15:29:15 +0000US designates EGC, Colombia’s largest illegal armed group, as foreign terrorist organization
The United States’ Department of State designated Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization EGC as a foreign terrorist organization. According to the State Department, the Ejercito Gaitanista de Colombia (EGC) is called “Clan del...
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:52:56 +0000At least 5 reported dead in Colombia after 72-hour ELN offensive
Colombia’s longest-living guerrilla group ELN killed at least five people in 60 attacks that were carried out as part of its 72-hour offensive to shut down or disrupt the economy. Among those killed are two policemen from the city of Cali and t...
Colombia Bogota
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:30:50 +0000The New Monroe Doctrine: U.S. Recasts Latin America as Security Priority
Why such a massive U.S. military deployment off the coast of Venezuela, supposedly to combat the “Cartel of the Suns” and stop drug trafficking from Venezuela to the United States? After more than four months, the results amount to little more th...
Wed, 17 Dec 2025 14:26:50 +0000Stain on Hay: Should María Corina Machado Refuse the Literary Festival?
For a literary festival, silence can be more revealing than speech. The decision by three writers to withdraw from the 2026 Hay Festival in Cartagena over the presence of María Corina Machado, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the most pr...
Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:55:51 +0000Christmas in Colombia: Nine Nights of Novenas, a Thousand Lights
Christmas in Colombia does not arrive quietly. It announces itself early, with the scent of cinnamon and panela simmering in kitchens, the crackle of fireworks in neighborhood streets, and the steady murmur of voices gathering night after night for t...
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:47:03 +0000Colombia’s Petro Calls Chile’s President-Elect José Kast a “Nazi”
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, triggered yet another diplomatic rupture in South America on Sunday after denouncing Chile’s president-elect, José Antonio Kast, as a “Nazi,” rejecting the legitimacy of Chile’s democratic choice and sh...
Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:26:42 +0000Black-market will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US oil tanker seizure
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast appears designed to further squeeze the economy of President Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Dec. 10, 2025 operation — in which American forces descended from helicopters onto the vesse...