Maria Corina Machado via World Economic Forum . Image credit: Bel Pedrosa A handful of Colombian and Latin American authors this week said they will not attend an upcomi…
The president of Colombia’s Constitutional Court has been forced to retract false claims that his extramarital child was the result of sexual abuse. Constitutional Court…
Guerrilla group ELN allegedly killed at least six soldiers and injured another 28 in a drone and mortar attack on a military base in northern Colombia. The attack took p…
A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s former finance and interior ministers be sent to jail while they are being tried on corruption charges. According to the prosecution, F…
Why such a massive U.S. military deployment off the coast of Venezuela, supposedly to combat the “Cartel of the Suns” and stop drug trafficking from Venezuela to the Uni…
Colombian army officers frustrate an ELN cylinder bomb attack in Antioquia. Image credit: @COL_EJERCITO via X The National Liberation Army (ELN), a Colombian guerrilla g…
Gustavo Petro speaking in Ciénaga, Colombia to commemorate the 1928 “Banana Massacre”. Image credit: Cristina Durado Suaza On December 6, during a speech to commemorate …
The United States’ Department of State designated Colombia’s largest paramilitary organization EGC as a foreign terrorist organization. According to the State Department…
Colombia’s longest-living guerrilla group ELN killed at least five people in 60 attacks that were carried out as part of its 72-hour offensive to shut down or disrupt th…
For a literary festival, silence can be more revealing than speech. The decision by three writers to withdraw from the 2026 Hay Festival in Cartagena over the presence o…
EGC soldiers. Credit: EGC via elgaitanista.org The United States today classified the Gaitanist Army of Colombia (EGC), Colombia’s most powerful armed group, a foreign t…
The far-right Democratic Center party elected senator Paloma Valencia as their candidate in Colombia’2026 presidential election. Valencia beat her colleagues, Maria Fern…
Christmas in Colombia does not arrive quietly. It announces itself early, with the scent of cinnamon and panela simmering in kitchens, the crackle of fireworks in neighb…
Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, triggered yet another diplomatic rupture in South America on Sunday after denouncing Chile’s president-elect, José Antonio Kast, as …
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro remains defiant despite escalating threats from his US counterpart Donald Trump The two presidents have been at each other’s throats f…
At least 17 people were killed and another 20 were injured when the bus they traveled in drove off a cliff in northern Colombia, local media reported Sunday. The tragedy…
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast appears designed to further squeeze the economy of President Nicolás Maduro’s government. The Dec. 10, 2025 op…
Guerrilla group ELN ordered a 72-hour lockdown in some of Colombia’s largest cities and regions under their control in protest against the “threats of an imperialist int…
ELN fighters. Image credit: Brasil de Fato via Flickr The Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) has declared a 72-hour nationwide armed strike beginning on Sunday in …
Two centuries after its founding in the turbulent aftermath of the Wars of Independence, the National Museum of Colombia is marking its bicentenary with one of the most …
Colombia’s Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio declared Thursday that the Government of President Gustavo Petro is “not in agreement” with the Nobel Peace Prize awarded …
Every December, Bogotá transforms. Streets glow with constellations of LED lights, plazas turn into theatrical stages, and entire neighborhoods feel suspended somewhere …
The Economy Commission of Colombia’s Senate struck down a law that sought finance the government’s 2026 budget with a tax reform targeting the elite of the country’s eli…
Colombia has recorded 40,663 homicides during the first three years of President Gustavo Petro’s government, surpassing the totals reported under the administrations of …
With congressional elections drawing near, Colombia’s main parties have picked their candidate lists and campaign leaders. The parties’ and their candidates are supporte…
In an era of shifting global economic alliances, few countries find themselves more strategically positioned than Colombia. Caught between the massive state-backed inves…
The Board of Directors of Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) approved a budget of $29.8 trillion COP for the 2026 fiscal year during its session on December 2, 2025. Th…
Sika AG (SIX: SIKA), the Swiss specialty chemical company, has officially opened its sixth manufacturing facility in Colombia, located in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, about…
Figure 2: Plan View of the Apollo System Highlighting Drill Holes Announced in this Release (CNW Group/Collective Mining Ltd.) On December 3, 2025, Collective Mining Ltd…
The Medellín Secretariat of Tourism and Entertainment participated in the annual United States Tour Operators Association (USTOA) Conference and Marketplace, held throug…