Colombia’s former foreign minister lashes out at Petro

1 Colombia’s former Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva published an open letter in which he suggested President Gustavo Petro was addicted to drugs. In the four-page letter, which was published on social media platform X, Leyva urged the president to distance …

Tribunal de Paz de Colombia concede amnistía para alias "Simón Trinidad", exFARC preso en EEUU

BOGOTÁ (AP) — El Tribunal de Paz de Colombia concedió el miércoles la amnistía por el delito de rebelión a Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera, alias “Simón Trinidad”, un excomandante de las extintas Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia que se encuentra …

EEUU urge a Colombia a reducir cultivos de coca para evitar perder certificado de lucha antidroga

BOGOTÁ (AP) — El gobierno estadounidense pidió el miércoles a Colombia mostrar resultados en la reducción de cultivos de hoja de coca, que han aumentado en los últimos años, como un aspecto relevante para decidir en los próximos meses si certifica o no al …

5.1-magnitude quake hits near west coast of Colombia: GFZ

NEW YORK, April 23 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted near west coast of Colombia at 22:44:38 GMT on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 87.0 km, was initially determined to …

Cycling great denies involvement in decades-old slayings in Colombia

Colombian cycling great Luis Alberto “Lucho” Herrera has denied allegations made by an ex-paramilitary fighter that the 1987 Spanish Vuelta champion was involved in the slayings of four farmers 23 years ago.Article content A judge asked the prosecutors’ …

Nature Accounting in Colombia Makes Sound Economic Case for Protecting Native Ecosystems

The Sinú River in northwestern Colombia is a kind of bloodstream from which life emanates. Its heart lies within Paramillo National Park, where the river begins, moving through tropical rainforests and tropical dry forests before flowing down to the …

Colombia Amnesty Ex-FARC

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

A new study of Colombia’s lowland forests and savannas finds that the nation may have extensive peatlands — organic wetland soils formed over thousands of years — holding as much as 70 years’ worth of Colombia’s carbon emissions. Protecting them from …

Ex-minister accuses Colombia president of drug abuse

Colombian President Gustavo Petro posted on social media that he had better things to do than hang around with his foreign minister. (Camilo Erasso/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Former foreign minister Alvaro Leyva …

Cycling great 'Lucho' Herrera denies involvement in decades-old slayings in Colombia

BOGOTA (AP) — Colombian cycling great Luis Alberto “Lucho” Herrera has denied allegations made by an ex-paramilitary fighter that the 1987 Spanish Vuelta champion was involved in the slayings of four farmers 23 years ago. A judge asked the prosecutors' …