A Putumayo from the southern Putumayo province suspended the government’s announced resumption of the aerial spraying of coca, ordering information that would allow “a sufficiently informed decision on the merits.” Earlier this week...

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Colombia’s National Narcotics Council (CNE) ordered the National Police to restart the aerial fumigation of coca, the base ingredient for cocaine. In a resolution, the CNE ordered “as a controlled, limited, temporary, and evaluable experi...

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A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s government to remove images and videos of President Abelardo de la Espriella walking through the remains of slain suspected guerrillas from its social media accounts. The judge also ordered the government to re...

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the “rebirth” of bilateral relations as they signed memorandums of understanding on nuclear energy and rare earths. The two leaders met in Ba...

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella lifted a gun ban that had been in place since 2015. According to De la Espriella, the decision seeks to give “good citizens” a way to defend themselves against “criminals.” &...

The Liberal Party announced that it had joined the congressional coalition of Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella. The party, which also supported De la Espriella’s presidential bid, said that it would join the coalition after &...

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella appointed retired army General Jorge Andres Zuluaga as director of the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI) despite pending criminal investigations. Zuluaga, who spent 30 years with military inte...

Colombia’s chief ombudsman, Iris Marin, clashed with the national government after she criticized President Abelardo de la Espriella for walking among the corpses of people killed by the military. In a public statement, Marin reiterated that &#...