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The director of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD said Thursday that at least 273 people died and that 377 were missing from the region that was struck by a 7.4M earthquake on Monday. According to UNGRD director David Tamayo, the eart...

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella said he would declare an economic emergency and create a reconstruction fund for homes and small businesses that were destroyed in Monday’s earthquake. In  a press statement, De la Espriella ...

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella asked the US Government for joint military operations “to destroy terrorists and terror networks,” said US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Wednesday. At an event of the so-called Ameri...

The government of President Abelardo de la Espriella has been criticized over its refusal to accept foreign search and rescue workers in the crucial hours after Monday’s earthquake. One of the first to raise the alarm was China’s ambassad...

Amidst the rubble and destruction caused by Monday’s devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake across much as Central and Southwest Colombia, reports are surfacing that the leftist government of ex-President Gustavo Petro initially decided that the ...

The death toll from Colombia’s devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake rose to 202 on Wednesday, according to the latest report from the country’s Institute of Legal Medicine, as rescue crews continued searching collapsed buildings and authorities a...

The death toll from Colombia’s powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake rose to 181 on Tuesday, with over 1300 injured and estimated  200 missing as rescue crews continued searching collapsed buildings across the country’s western and central regions. ...

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday morning, killing at least two people and causing significant damage across the country, with buildings collapsing in several cities and a tower of the historic cathedral in Manizal...

Abelardo de la Espriella will be sworn in as Colombia’s president on Friday, August 7, in an unprecedented inauguration ceremony held outside the capital Bogotá, with the formal transfer of power taking place at the Arena of the Universidad Santia...