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Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:04 +0000
USS 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 +0000
Armero: 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 +0000
A 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 +0000
Colombia 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 +0000
Palace 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 +0000
China’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 +0000
Colombia’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 +0000
Colombia 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 +0000
US 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 +0000
EU 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 +0000
Bogotá 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 +0000
City 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 +0000
FARC 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 +0000
Did 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 +0000
U.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 +0000
U.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 +0000
U.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 […]

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:02:18 +0000
U.S. Destroys Drug Boat in the Pacific as Trump Expands Anti-Narco Offensive
The United States said it destroyed a vessel carrying narcotics in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday, killing two people it described as “narco-terrorists,” in what marks the first U.S. […]

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:16:43 +0000
Colombia Court Overturns Uribe Conviction, Declares Ex-President Innocent
Colombia’s Superior Tribunal of Bogotá has overturned the conviction of former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, declaring him innocent of bribery and witness tampering in one of the country’s most divisive […]

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:08:59 +0000
Colombian Politicians React to Trump’s Tariff Threat and Aid Suspension
U.S President Donald Trump triggered a political firestorm in Colombia after announcing on his social media platform – Truth Social – the immediate suspension of all financial aid and imposition […]

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:37:45 +0000
Trump Calls Colombia’s Petro an “Illegal Drug Leader,” Halts U.S. Aid
In an extraordinary escalation that threatens to end decades of strategic partnership, U.S. President Donald J. Trump on Sunday labeled Colombian President Gustavo Petro an “illegal drug leader” and announced […]

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 12:00:06 +0000
Coral Coves to Desert Shores: Colombia’s Most Unique Beaches
There are countless stretches of beach in Colombia to explore, each with their own beauty and natural charm. Here four options fora carefree destination.

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 […]

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