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1 week ago |
latintimes.com | Alfie Pannell
As much as 50% of humanitarian demining projects have been suspended in Colombia due to the Trump administration's funding freeze in January, NGO and government officials said. For decades, armed groups involved in Colombia's conflict have used landmines to strengthen their control of rural areas.
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1 week ago |
mprnews.org | Alfie Pannell
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's president and self-styled "world's coolest dictator," is due to visit President Trump at the White House on Monday. He's the first Latin American leader to get an official invite to the Oval Office since Trump took office. Bukele is one of Trump's most crucial regional allies and no one has embraced his anti-immigration policies as enthusiastically.
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2 weeks ago |
latintimes.com | Alfie Pannell
As a press conference came to a close in a busy hotel lobby on February 19th, Colombian law enforcement agents surrounded Geovanny Andrés Rojas, arresting him under an Interpol Red Notice for drug trafficking. Rojas, known better by his alias 'Araña', or spider, had been engaging in peace talks with the government on behalf of the Comandos de Frontera, a dissident armed group of the now-defunct FARC guerrillas.
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2 weeks ago |
thebogotapost.com | Alfie Pannell
Cúcuta, Colombia – Multiple senior politicians representing Norte de Santander, home to the embattled Catatumbo region, have opposed the extension of a state of emergency in the conflict zone. President Gustavo Petro declared a State of Internal Commotion on January 20, 2025, in response to clashes between the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the Frente 33, a FARC dissident group. The decree is due to expire on April 24 but can be extended after 90 days with Senate approval.
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3 weeks ago |
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Emily Hart |Salomé Beyer Vélez |Sophie Foggin
Infamous drug lord Carlos Lehder was freed Monday after being arrested in Colombia on charges of arms and narcotics trafficking last Friday, March 28. The Colombian Attorney General’s office had guaranteed in a letter that the co-founder of the Medellín Cartel would not face charges upon returning to the country after 38 years, but customs officers detained him under a judge’s order.
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