How Venezuela Helps Fuel the Violence in Colombia
After finding refuge and building power in Venezuela, a decades-old rebel group has waged the worst violence in Colombia in a ...
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Colombia offers $700,000 reward for information on ELN rebel leaders
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s government on Saturday announced ... The move followed President Gustavo Petro’s decision on Friday to issue a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in the ...
Is Colombia seeing more war than peace?
When President Gustavo Petro took office in 2022, he aimed to bring about comprehensive peace in Colombia. Since January 16, the guerilla group ELN and offshoots of the former militant organization ...
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Petro’s Colombia Falls Apart
President Gustavo Petro’s plans to peacefully demilitarize ... the vital cocaine-producing Catatumbo region of northern Colombia. Petro, himself a former guerilla fighter from the M-19 movement ...
El País in English22d
A border in flames: Petro and Maduro accuse each other over conflict that has displaced thousands
Bogotá insinuates that Caracas provides cover for the ELN guerrillas and Chavismo responds by accusing the Colombian ...
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Colombia president declares state of emergency as violence surges
Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a state of emergency in Catatumbo region Friday in response to escalating violence between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and 'dissident' factions of ...
He swore he wouldn’t give in to Trump, but Colombia’s imminent ruin forced Petro’s hand
Colombian President Gustavo Petro asked President Donald Trump to sit down with him and talk things over a glass of whiskey, called him an outright racist in rambling social media posts and pledged to ...
Colombia’s interior minister resigns as cracks deepen in President Petro’s coalition
Colombia's interior minister has resigned as a political crisis shakes the government of President Gustavo Petro, following ...
El País in English8d
Internal government rebellion threatens to derail the end of Gustavo Petro’s presidency
The Colombian president faces criticism from his ministers and public confusion after a chaotic Cabinet meeting that was ...
LA Times on MSN23d
Colombia reactivates arrest orders for top rebels blamed for deadly violence in cocaine turf war
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's government is reactivating ... another armed group for control of a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela. President Gustavo Petro’s leftist government in 2022 ...
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80 killed in Colombia’s deadliest wave of violence since peace accords
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — More than 80 people have been ... peace” program of the country’s first leftist president, Gustavo Petro. It could also fuel tensions with the administration of President ...
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Is Colombia seeing more war than peace?
The FARC disbanded, but several splinter groups ... is seen as the strongest rebel organization still active in Colombia. Gustavo Petro has been Colombia's head of state since mid-2022.