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Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:12:50 +0000
How Colombia’s election authority is preventing a united left ahead of the 2026 vote
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Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:55:16 +0000
Two Venezuelan activists shot, injured in Colombia’s capital Bogota
Three unidentified assailants shot two Venezuelan activists in Colombia’s capital, Bogota. The victims, political analyst Luis Alejandro Peche and LGBTQ+ activist Yendri Omar Velasquez, were injured in the attack that took place in the affluent...

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:56:08 +0000
Petro calls for resumption of talks with Colombia’s ELN guerrillas
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro called for the resumption of talks with the ELN guerrilla group. In a post on social media platform X, Petro responded to ELN’s second in command and chief negotiator, Pablo Beltran. The president said t...

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:38:10 +0000
Senate chief of Colombia’s Conservative Party linked to paramilitaries
Senator Efrain Cepeda, the Senate Chief of Colombia’s Conservative Party, has been accused of ties to the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC. In his testimony before the warcrime tribunal JEP, former senator Alvaro Ashton alleged that Ce...

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:49:21 +0000
Petro urges Colombia’s mercenaries in Ukraine to come home
President Gustavo Petro denounced Ukraine’s racist treatment of mercenaries from Colombia. In a post on social media platform X, Petro warned that Colombian mercenaries are being treated as an “inferior race” and “cannon fodde...

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Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:36:15 +0000
Bogotá: “Criminal structures” behind Congress of the Peoples protest
A wave of coordinated protests and building occupations by the social movement known as the “Congress of the Peoples” has raised alarms in Bogotá this week, after Interior Minister Armando […]

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:58:01 +0000
Colombia Targets TdeA as U.S. Launches More Caribbean Strikes
Colombia’s National Police captured a top Venezuelan of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization, hours after a second fugitive jumped to his death from his luxury apartment in Medellín. The […]

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:18:30 +0000
Venezuelan Activists Attacked in Bogotá During Targeted Shooting
Two Venezuelan human rights activists living in exile in Colombia were wounded in a targeted shooting on Monday afternoon in northern Bogotá, an attack that has renewed fears over the […]

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:23:06 +0000
Nobel Prize: Machado “keeps the flame of democracy burning”
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday, recognizing her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the […]

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:28:42 +0000
White House Wants Petro to Retract Claims Of “Colombian Deaths” in Narco Strike
The White House said it would “welcome” a public retraction from Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he accused the U.S. military of killing Colombian citizens during a recent naval strike […]

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