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The Latest Breaking News from Colombia

'I Come From A Country Of Bloodied Beauty': Colombia's President Demands UN End The War On Drugs

By Franca Quarneti via El Planteo

Benzinga

Colombian leader’s promise of ‘total peace’ may prove too ambitious

Little-known militia groups have surfaced to declare their willingness to strike peace deals – and reap ceasefire rewards

The Guardian - US

Clever Leaves To Grow & Commercialize House Of Kush THC Flower For International Cannabis Markets

Clever Leaves Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CLVR) (NASDAQ: CLVRW) entered into partnership with House of Kush, to be the exclusive grower and distributor of proprietar

Benzinga

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Colombia’s battle against Amazon deforestation: ‘The jungle is disappearing’

Leftwing government launches crackdown on illegal clearances to tackle destruction of rainforest

Financial Times

Heartbroken son of Colombian migrant blames himself for mom’s suicide at NYC shelter: ‘She was perfect’

NEW YORK — The young Colombian mother who took her own life at a Queens homeless shelter this past weekend was found dead by her teenage son — and he blamed himself for her suicide in a heartbreaking interview with NYPD officers, according to neighbors and city officials.

Tribune News Service

Colombia's Petro calls on Latin America to unite against war on drugs

Colombian President Gustavo Petro called on Latin American countries to join forces to end the war on drugs during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

Reuters

PHOTOS: The moms (and dads) of Ivory Coast are falling in love with kangaroo care

Can the warmth of a parent's chest be a boon to babies, especially premature births? In the 1970s, Colombian researchers found it did. The technique has gone global. Ivory Coast is the latest convert.

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Editorial: What did these kids do to deserve this?

These are little kids. Just kids. We don’t know much about them. We don’t know their names or even where they’re from. Maybe Venezuela. Maybe Colombia. But we do know this. They’re just kids, and they deserve to be kids, not props or pawns in some ridiculous political grandstanding about…

Tribune News Service

Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vásquez review – Mao, movies and me

From Red Guard in China to guerrilla fighter in Colombia … the extraordinary life of a film-maker is barely fictionalised

The Guardian - UK

Colombia´s ELN rebel group favors bilateral ceasefire if peace talks resume

By Dave Sherwood

Reuters

Maduro: Venezuela will be guarantor in Colombian peace talks

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says his government will act as a “guarantor” in peace talks between Colombia’s government and the National Liberation Army rebel group that are slated to begin later this year

The Independent UK

EncroChat dealer 'famoussquid' flooded UK with cocaine from Colombia

Dean Anderson was described as being "top of the tree" of an organised crime gang

Liverpool Echo

Colombia, Venezuela border to reopen to cargo traffic

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela say the years-long closure of their countries’ shared border to cargo transport will end Sept. 26

The Independent UK

Colombia to combat money laundering in anti-drugs fight -police director

Colombia will focus its anti-drug fight on weakening traffickers' financial power and will continue forced eradication of coca crops, the country's new national police director said in his first interview with international media.

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Colombia approves extradition of government-allied senator's brother to U.S

Colombia's government on Wednesday approved the extradition of Alvaro Fredy Cordoba, the brother of a senator in the left-wing Pacto Historico party of President Gustavo Petro, to the United States to face drug-trafficking charges.

Daily Mirror

Shocking moment fishing boat erupted into fiery blaze as Navy step in to rescue crew

The Venezuelan-flagged tuna boat had caught fire in a Colombian port, where it was being held while the crew were investigated for illegally fishing in a protected area

Liverpool Echo

What James Rodriguez brought to Everton means club won't regret taking transfer chance

It's two years since Everton made the statement signing of Colombian star James Rodriguez

The Conversation

Colombia’s new left-wing government: three opportunities to build stronger ties with Africa

The recent election of Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, and first black vice-president, Francia Márquez, creates a new opening to revitalise ties with Africa.

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Thousands of Victoria's international students have returned, but there are still more to come

An extra 37,000 international students are studying in Victoria since Australia's borders reopened to them in mid-December. The new data comes as the state government targets markets in Colombia, Vietnam, Japan and Korea.

The Independent UK

On Colombia's San Andres, a historic church's roots run deep

The roots of First Baptist Church on Colombia's San Andres Island run deep

Reuters

Eight Colombia police killed in deadliest attack since leftist took office

Eight police officers were killed in an explosives attack in western Colombia on Friday, President Gustavo Petro said, the deadliest attack on security forces since he took office promising to end the country's nearly 60-year conflict.

Reuters

Factbox-Recent attacks on prominent figures in Latin America

Argentina's Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Thursday night survived an apparent assassination attempt after a gunman threatened her at near point-blank range and the gun failed to discharge.

Reuters

Colombia to give properties confiscated from drug groups to farmers, women

Colombia will give properties confiscated from drug trafficking groups and valued at some $4.9 billion to farmers, women's organizations, youth collectives and universities, leftist President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday.

Irish Mirror

UN figures show how cocaine starts off at €1,500 per kilo in Colombia and reaches €60,000 per kilo by the time it gets to Ireland

Today we unveil the scale of the profits available to traffickers moving cocaine into Ireland

Zenger

Three Tons Of Cocaine Worth $108 Million Seized On Narco-Submarine In Colombia

This is the moment a submarine carrying three tons of cocaine worth $108 million is seized in Colombia.

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