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Gustavo Petro faces fierce opposition from what he views as Colombia's deeply conservative deep state.
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Until August is the last novel of the Nobel Prize-winning author, a work he asked his sons to destroy. But, nearly 10 years after his death, they have decided to publish his final novel.
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About 1.4 million people visited Medellin last year, many of them American. Now the surge in tourism has presented officials with a new set of dark challenges, including an uptick in sex trafficking and the killing of tourists and Colombian women after rendezvous on dating apps.
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Paula Delgado-Kling's poignant new book chronicling the civil war nightmare of a teen guerrilla makes the case for reforming Colombia's countryside even more urgent.
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Professional soldiers from Colombia add to volunteers from around the world who have answered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for foreign fighters.
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Colombia created its latest, and perhaps last, national park by befriending the traditional ranching culture that surrounds it.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claims former Colombian President Iván Duque ordered the killing of Maduro's alleged money-laundering maestro in 2020.
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Of the 177 environmental activists killed around the world last year, 60 were murdered in Colombia, says the advocacy group Global Witness. In most cases, no one is tried or convicted.
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The country is rich in water resources. Yet many people in the city of Santa Marta struggle to get enough to meet daily needs. They improvise, strategize — and rely on a tangle of 1-inch pipes.
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Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s.
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Bolivia's government accused Israel of carrying out "crimes against humanity" in the Gaza Strip. Chile and Colombia recalled their ambassadors to Israel as they criticize the Israeli military offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
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Allies of Colombian President Gustavo Petro have been defeated by wide margins in municipal and provincial elections, in what analysts say is a sign of growing discontent with the country's first left-wing government.