A federal judge in Miami set a million-dollar compensation for a Venezuelan exiled in USA who sued the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroother members of the high-ranking civil and military power of that country, as well as the FARC and the Cartel de los Soles, for kidnapping and torture. Judge Federico A. Moreno determined that […]
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Conservative right in Colombia will seek to maintain power with Uribe’s bishop
The Democratic Center, the ruling party of Colombia, elected Óscar Iván Zuluaga, a close ally of the former president Alvaro Uribe like his letter for the May 2022 elections, in which the left appears as the favorite. The 62-year-old businessman, former Minister of Finance of Uribe (2002-2010), lost the presidential elections of 2014 in the […]
Five years of the peace that extinguished the FARC and split Colombia in two
The peace that applauded the world, divided a country and disarmed the most powerful guerrilla in America turns five years old. And although the violence and drug trafficking continued without the FARC, today Colombia it is a country in turmoil but with fewer victims. Teatro Colón in Bogotá, November 24, 2016. Juan Manuel Santos and […]
Cocoa sows hope in forgotten Colombia
The banks of the Arauca River are strewn with cacao, which also appears in murals in the houses and even erected in monuments in Arauquita, a Colombian town victim of state neglect, which clings to the fact that this fruit brings well-being. In this area of the department of Arauca, only separated from Venezuela by […]