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The temporary deployment of the Army in Norte de Santander’s capital follows the assassination of a former senior municipal official and a series of bomb attacks, as the government confronts expanding criminal networks along the Venezuelan border. President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered the temporary militarization of Cúcuta, the capital of Norte de Santander, […]
The President’s personal involvement in high-profile police raids, his pledge to govern from within Colombia and proposal for military control in southern Bogotá is putting a hardline security strategy to the test. President Abelardo de la Espriella took his escalating campaign against urban crime to Bogotá on Wednesday, personally accompanying security forces during Operation Kratos, […]
Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán’s administration is reintroducing nighttime motorcycle restrictions and deploying more than 400 District personnel as the capital prepares for Halloween, days after two men were sentenced for the killing of the 20-year-old university student in Chapinero. As Bogotá prepares for another Halloween weekend, the death of university student Jaime Esteban Moreno casts […]
President Abelardo de la Espriella personally accompanied a major security operation in Medellín overnight on Monday, as police, military personnel and prosecutors carried out coordinated raids targeting criminal networks accused of involvement in homicide, extortion, theft and drug trafficking. The operation, which extended into the early hours of Tuesday, October 27, initially produced a reported […]
Photographs of cash, suspected drugs and clothing, alongside reported government contracts worth more than COP$100 million, have intensified allegations that public resources were used to facilitate Petro’s private encounters. The ex-President denies exchanging contracts for intimate favours. The allegations surrounding Gustavo Petro’s presidency have taken a disturbing turn. A young woman, identified as Deicy Jiménez, […]
After nearly ten months abroad, Venezuela’s opposition leader has returned to a country still governed by Nicolás Maduro’s former deputy, raising fresh questions about the role of Colombia, the Trump administration and the prospects for free elections. María Corina Machado’s return to Venezuela over the weekend has reopened the central question confronting the country after […]
Former presidential adviser Eva Ferrer is preparing to travel to Washington next week to present allegations concerning former Colombian First Lady Verónica Alcocer to US authorities, potentially moving a politically-charged scandal beyond Colombia’s borders. Ferrer, a Spanish-Colombian senior aide who worked closely with Alcocer during Gustavo Petro’s presidency, is expected to meet officials from the […]
The controversy surrounding the alleged Pacto de Valledupar escalated on Wednesday after Enrique Vargas Lleras, co-director of the Cambio Radical party, announced plans to file a complaint against former president Gustavo Petro over allegations that his administration sought to persuade former paramilitary commanders to make accusations against political opponents. Vargas Lleras, the brother of the […]
Rescue efforts continue in rugged terrain near Inzá, Cauca, where difficult weather conditions have delayed the evacuation of 13 Army personnel following the October 19 helicopter crash. INZA – Thirteen Colombian Army soldiers remain stranded near the site of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash in the mountainous municipality of Inzá, Cauca, on Wednesday, October […]
Colombian authorities seized on Tuesday, October 20, close to 8 tonnes of cocaine hidden inside a shipping container at the Port of Cartagena, in an operation described by the Presidency as the largest drug seizure at the Sociedad Portuaria in the past decade. The operation was carried out by Colombia’s National Police through its Anti-Narcotics […]
At least 30 National Riot Police officers stood outside Colombia’s National Museum on Monday as academics, artists and historians gathered to debate a question that reaches far beyond the objects recently removed from display: who gets to decide how the country remembers its past? The museum was closed, as it is every Monday. But the […]
President Abelardo de la Espriella has ordered Culture Minister Paola Holguín to remove images and references to former M-19 guerrilla commander Carlos Pizarro from government public spaces, opening a new front in the battle over how Colombia remembers its decades-long internal conflict. Speaking at the Ministry of Culture on Thursday, alongside Holguín, De la Espriella […]
Colombia’s inauguration of its Embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday marked a dramatic reversal of former president Gustavo Petro’s ideologically-biased international relations, restoring a diplomatic relationship that had been severed over Israel’s invasion in Gaza following the October 7 terrorist attack. The formal opening of the Embassy fulfilled a campaign promise by President Abelardo de la […]
More than 4,000 members of the National police’s Anti-riot Squad – ESMAD – are expected to be deployed on Bogotá’s streets on Wednesday as former president Gustavo Petro prepares to join trade unions in a nationwide mobilization against President Abelardo de la Espriella. Wednesday’s rallies will test the government’s security guarantees in maintaing public order […]
The death of a British-born cancer specialist after an electronic music festival in Medellín this weekend has cast a shadow over the Colombian debut of one of the world’s best-known dance music brands. A second foreign attendee from Costa Rica also died during the Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), held October 10 and 11 at Medellín’s […]
