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1 month ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Sophie Foggin |Tom Driver
Quibdó, Colombia – USAID cuts threaten to undermine development goals and the peace process in Colombia’s least developed region, say government officials, NGO workers and community leaders. The Chocó Department, Colombia’s most impoverished, received between 50 and 70% of humanitarian funding from USAID, according to officials. The suspension has shuttered multiple programs and thrown many others into disarray. Roberto (not his real name) was employed on a USAID-funded program in Chocó.
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1 month ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Tom Driver |Sophie Foggin
Quibdó, Colombia – A truce signed between three gangs in December reduced homicide rates in Quibdó, the capital of Colombia’s impoverished Chocó region, by 56%, said authorities. Government officials, NGOs, the Catholic Church, and community leaders negotiated the ceasefire between local gangs Los RPS, Los Mexicanos, and Locos Yam, which was recently extended until the end of March.
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2 months ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Salomé Beyer Vélez |Sophie Foggin |Tom Driver
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February 13, 2025
Trial proceedings against former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe began on Thursday, February 6, making Uribe the country’s first ex-head of state to take the defendant’s chair in a 21st-century court. The Colombian Prosecutors’ Office had formally charged Uribe, who served as Colombia’s president from 2002 to 2010, with bribery, procedural fraud, and witness tampering in May 2024.
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2 months ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Salomé Beyer Vélez |Tom Driver
Following Colombia’s transitional justice system classifying Medellín’s La Escombrera landfill as the site of a mass grave, officials have identified the remains of two people found in the excavation area. According to the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), one of the bodies is that of a 20-year-old woman, who was last seen by her family on July 30, 2002, when she left home for a meeting about the youth sports group she led.
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2 months ago | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Tom Driver |Sophie Foggin
Bogotá, Colombia – On Sunday, a dramatic confrontation between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, captured the world’s attention. Petro, who turned back two U.S. military flights carrying deported Colombians, was forced to back down after Trump announced retaliatory tariffs and sanctions.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Salomé Beyer Vélez |Tom Driver |Frances Jenner
Medellín, Colombia – In a landmark declaration Thursday, Colombia’s transitional justice body, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), stated unequivocally that Medellín’s La Escombrera landfill is the site of a mass grave. For decades, family members of people missing from the historically embattled Comuna 13 district have claimed that their relatives were buried beneath refuse on the site.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
latinamericareports.com | Alfie Pannell |Salomé Beyer Vélez |Tom Driver
A star-studded investment consortium has acquired Bogotá soccer team La Equidad. The purchase was partially financed by U.S. actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney who co-own the British soccer club Wrexham. The celebrities formed part of the U.S.-based Tylis-Porter Group, which reportedly paid over USD $30 million for the team, which ranked 13th out of 20 in the 2024 Colombian league phase.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
brazilreports.com | Thiago Alves |Tom Driver |Sophie Foggin |Tabata Viapiana
São Paulo, Brazil – An Argentine court n Friday issued arrest warrants for 61 Brazilian nationals who fled to Argentina after being convicted in Brazil for their roles in the violent anti-democratic attacks of January 8, 2023, in Brasília.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
latintimes.com | Tom Driver
Donald Trump's has made of anti-immigration rhetoric a centerpiece of his campaign. He has referred to immigrants as "drug-lords" and "rapists," repeatedly claiming that they are "poisoning the blood" of the United States. Yet, since he made it to the presidential ticket, the former president's share of the Latino vote has grown by eight percentage points, a swing that looks set to increase in next week's election.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
latinamericareports.com | Salomé Beyer Vélez |Sophie Foggin |Tom Driver
Evo Morales, President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019, was accused via an anonymous complaint of statutory rape against a 15-year-old girl while still in office, according to the Bolivian Ministry of Justice. “We have observed with indignation grave crimes that pretend to go unpunished. I am concretely referring to a girl who was raped at 15, 16 years old.
