Colombia’s government and the National Liberation Army (ELN), the last recognized rebel group in the country, said on Friday they would invite the United States to join their peace process. The talks are an initiative by President Gustavo Petro, who in August became Colombia’s first-ever leftist leader and has vowed a less bellicose approach to … Read more
Photo used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: AFP At least 18 people were killed in Colombia in clashes between holdouts from the former rebel army FARC and another armed group linked to drug trafficking, the government said Sunday. The government ombudsman’s office said the fighting occurred on Saturday in southwest Colombia, near the … Read more
Colombia’s leftist government has signalled it could row back on its pledge to halt new oil and gas exploration projects, saying it would first examine existing contracts as part of an overhaul of its fossil fuel industry. Gustavo Petro, a former guerrilla fighter who took office as president in August, made the promise during his … Read more
ARAUCA, Colombia- Over the past four decades, Colombia has pumped billions of barrels of oil from under a vast savanna it shares with neighbouring Venezuela. Through pipelines, the thick crude travels over the Andes and to the Caribbean coast, then onto tankers, mostly to the United States. Much like another famous export of Colombia’s, it … Read more
Whenever they have found themselves in trouble, Spain and Colombia have relied on Vicky Lopez and Linda Caicedo respectively to dig them out of it. Be it Lopez’s twin strikes late in the quarter-finals against Japan that took Spain through or Caicedo’s goals in crunch situations throughout the tournament for Colombia. When the teams clash … Read more
Imagine waking up at 3am, having breakfast and then having a high-intensity training session at 4.30am. That’s exactly what the Colombia U-17 squad had to do in order to prepare themselves for the time difference between their capital Bogota, and India, where they take on Spain in their opening match of the FIFA U-17 Women’s … Read more
What might the official re-opening of the border to trade between Colombia and Venezuela mean for the two countries – and for the record number of Venezuelans trying to leave their own country? Source link
Colombia’s recently elected president Gustavo Petro has told the UN General Assembly that bloody campaigns against cocaine production have failed and are only hurting his country. “From my wounded Latin America, I demand you end the irrational war on drugs,” Petro stated in his address in New York on Tuesday. “Reducing drug consumption doesn’t require … Read more
Colombian ambassador Armando Benedetti met on Monday with Venezuelan authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. “At this hour I’m received by President Nicolas Maduro, to whom I present diplomatic papers as Colombia’s ambassador in Venezuela. We talked about the urgency to revive friendship ties that should have never been severed,” Benedetti … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Canadian actress, filmmaker and producer Caitlyn Sponheimer’s feature directorial debut Wild Goat Surf has begun shooting in the Okanagan region of British Columbia. Set in a rundown RV park during the summer of 2003, the drama follows Goat, a 12-year-old, surfing-obsessed, prodigal skater girl over the unstructured days of the summer as she dreams … Read more