BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia has intercepted its first narco-submarine of the year, the navy said Monday, as drug traffickers in the South American country produce record amounts of cocaine destined for Europe and the United States. The submersible was intercepted on Saturday morning off Colombia’s Pacific Coast, navy spokesman Capt. Wilmer Roa said. The 15 … Read more
Lisa Barlow has shared a distressing update with fans while eldest son Jack Barlow is in Colombia on his Mormon mission trip. On Tuesday (December 19), the 49-year-old Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star took to Twitter to reveal that Jack, 19, is currently hospitalized amid his mission trip, adding that it’s “killing” her … Read more
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian authorities on Wednesday were investigating the alleged kidnapping and murder of a Hmong American comedian and activist who was found dead Monday in a wooded area of the northern city Medellín. Prosecutors told reporters that Tou Ger Xiong, 50, arrived in Medellín on Nov. 29. He went to meet a friend … Read more
The location for my Dec. 3 interview with Colombian President Gustavo Petro is arranged with all the formalities of a bilateral meeting between heads of government. Staff have arranged his seat on the patio of a luxury beachside hotel in Dubai to carefully avoid the sun and placed a Colombian flag on the nearby table. … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny cheap treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. Experts see it as a shift in how such … Read more
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia on Tuesday began the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Two male hippos and one female underwent surgical sterilization, environmental authorities said. It is part of a larger government effort to control the population of more than … Read more
Bolivia’s new President Luis Arce’s Presidency Minister Marianela Prada delivers a speech during her inauguration ceremony at the Casa Grande del Pueblo government palace in La Paz on November 9, 2020. – Leftist economist Luis Arce assumed the Bolivian presidency facing the challenge of uniting a polarized society and reactivating an economy ravaged by the … Read more
Play video content Instagram / @frenchmontana French Montana’s flying private, but his travel plans are still coming with headaches … because he says authorities in Colombia searched his jet for narcotics. The rapper says he was trying to fly out of the South American country Tuesday, but he was grounded at the airport while officers … Read more
Liverpool midfielder Luis Diaz’s parents were kidnapped in Colombia after being stopped by gunmen on motorbikes. His mother was later rescued but his father remains missing. Cilenis Marulanda was rescued by police in the city of Barrancas, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. “In a padlock operation in Barrancas, Luis Diaz’s mother has been rescued, we … Read more
BOGOTA, Colombia — Israel has suspended security exports to Colombia in an escalating diplomatic spat over online messages by Colombia’s president comparing Israel’s siege of Gaza to the actions of Nazi Germany. Colombian President Gustavo Petro has doubled down on his criticism of Israel and suggested that his country may need to suspend diplomatic relations … Read more