The industrial activity of Colombia registered in July a drop of 2.3% compared to the previous month, when it had recorded an increase of 4.1%, according to data published this Wednesday by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE).Of the 39 manufacturing branches analyzed, 27 showed declines in their real...
The sixth section of the Provincial Court of A Coruña, based in Santiago, held this Wednesday the first session of the trial against four people accused of irregularly introducing a Colombian citizen into Spain and then forcing her to engage in prostitution to pay off an alleged economic debt. "They...
The Government of the United States has communicated this Tuesday that it will redirect to Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, and Peru a military aid package valued at 52 million dollars (45 million euros) that was initially intended for several countries in Europe and the Middle East.A spokesperson for the State Department...
The Financial Superintendence of Colombia (SFC) has granted a banking license to the British 'fintech' Revolut, which will allow it to begin operating under local supervision in the Andean country, after previously obtaining the corresponding authorizations in the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Lithuania, and Mexico.The company has announced that it...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, reported this Tuesday that security forces have managed to free eight people who had been kidnapped by the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the Catatumbo area, in the department of Norte de Santander, on the border with Venezuela."In a surgical precision offensive...
The Special Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia has decided to initiate a formal investigation against the senator and former presidential candidate Iván Cepeda for alleged irregularities linked to the financing of the internal primaries of his party, Pacto Histórico.The high court is examining the origin...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has presented a new security protocol that empowers the National Police to enter public universities when protests lead to violent episodes. The decision has generated deep rejection in broad sectors of the university community, which perceive it as a violation of the...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has made public a new security protocol that enables the National Police to enter public universities when demonstrations lead to episodes of violence. The initiative has generated strong rejection in broad sectors of the university community, which consider it a violation of...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has lashed out against two recent decisions of the Colombian Justice that have halted operations of the Armed Forces under the command of the Executive —one of them due to the possible presence of minors in a militia camp that was to...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has communicated this Sunday the death of a member of the Front 36 of the guerrilla of the Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the capture of another in the last 24 hours, in the framework of a series of military operations...
A member of the Front 36, a dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) led by Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias 'Calarcá', has died and another has been detained after an armed clash with the Army in the municipality of San Andrés de Cuerquia, in the department of...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, communicated this Friday that he will resign from receiving his salary as head of state to give it monthly to social initiatives. His first payment will be allocated to the rehabilitation of two elderly residences affected by the earthquake of August 10...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has set a maximum deadline of one week for the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Justice to act against the highest responsible of the paramilitary group Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada (ACSN), Fredy Castillo Carrillo, known by the alias...
The Colombian authorities have reported the arrest of a leader of the guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN) during an operation carried out in the department of Cauca, in the west of the country. In the same intervention, a second suspect was arrested, in an action that the president of...
The Colombian president, Abelardo de la Espriella, communicated this Thursday the arrest of alias 'Comandante 7', whom he defined as a "criminal dynamizer" of the organization Los Tiguerones "between Colombia and Ecuador". The arrest took place in a municipality near Bogotá, the capital of the country, with the purpose of...
A judge in Colombia has ordered the president of the country, Abelardo de la Espriella, to remove from his official accounts on social media several posts in which the president appears posing next to the bodies of alleged members of criminal gangs killed by security forces.The resolution, issued by the...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has raised the total of extraditions to 70 during his first 32 days at the head of the Executive, emphasizing that the country "will not be a refuge for criminals" nor a scene of "impunity". "With those signed today, we complete 70...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, informed this Wednesday of the capture of a man supposedly linked to a cell of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in the northwest of the country, as part of the offensive he is maintaining against paramilitary groups.The arrested is Fabián Yesid Contreras,...
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, has reiterated that Colombia "never" has requested the sending of American soldiers to combat drug cartels on its territory, but has asked for "help and training." Rubio made these statements during his visit this Tuesday to Barranquilla, the capital of...
The Executives of Colombia and the United States have signed this Tuesday two memorandums of understanding to strengthen collaboration in civil nuclear energy and in the field of critical minerals and rare earths, taking advantage of the visit to the South American country of the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco...
The president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, has signed this Tuesday a decree that nullifies the generalized suspension of permits for the carrying of firearms in the country, although he has emphasized that it does not imply "indiscriminate" use and that "strict" regulations on access and handling of weapons...
The Attorney General of Colombia, Luz Adriana Camargo Garzón, has decided this Monday to reinstate the arrest warrants against seven former members and representatives of the Comuneros del Sur Front of the guerrilla group National Liberation Army (ELN). These judicial measures had been suspended in the context of contacts and...
A soldier of the Colombian Army has lost his life and two others have been injured after the detonation of a minefield placed on the Pan-American highway, the main road corridor of the southwest of the country. After the explosion, authorities have arrested a person for his alleged participation in...
Seven members of the Central General Staff of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), faction led by alias 'Iván Mordisco', and a soldier of the Colombian Army have died in recent hours in different episodes of violence recorded in various areas of the country.According to a statement from the...
The Ministry of Defense of Colombia announced this Saturday the launch of a new phase of the military and police campaign 'Esparta', which will be restructured and reactivated based in Ocaña, in the department of Norte de Santander, in the northwest of the country. This decision responds to the "terrorist"...