Amazon plane crash children reunited with family after 40 days in jungle
Relatives and Colombian president visit survivors in hospital, where grandfather says they are ‘shattered but in good hands’ The four young Colombian siblings who managed...
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Colombian plane crash: mother told children to leave her so they could survive
Details of woman’s final days emerge after four siblings rescued following almost six weeks in Amazon jungle The mother of the four young Colombian siblings...
‘Miracle, miracle’: lone children survive 40 days in Amazon jungle
The four Indigenous children were the only survivors of a plane crash that killed their mother A few tantalising clues kept the rescuers going. The...
Colombian president’s allies resign amid illegal wiretapping scandal
Inquiry reveals phone calls of Gustavo Petro’s aide’s nanny were intercepted in ‘grotesque’ abuse of power Two of Gustavo Petro’s closest political allies have resigned...
Colombian elite backed death squads, former paramilitary commander says
Salvatore Mancuso testified to peace tribunal that rightwing AUC worked hand in glove with business, military and political elite A notorious former commander of Colombia’s...
‘Terrifying’: Critics decry US plan to stop migrants at Darién Gap
Deal with Colombia and Panama aims to halt refugees crossing the lawless jungle region, but some say dangers will only increase A US-backed plan to...
Calls for action on Colombia’s hippo scourge after animal dies in road crash
Dead creature was one of 150 descendants of four hippos imported by drug baron Pablo Escobar in 1980s Colombia has logged its first hippopotamus-caused road...
Almost half of human rights defenders killed last year were in Colombia
The county was the deadliest for rights activists in 2022, and Latin America and Ukraine together accounted for 80% of the 401 deaths Colombia was...
Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia – report
Authorities have blamed the growing of coca – the base ingredient of cocaine – for clearcutting, but a recent study shows otherwise Cattle-ranching, not cocaine,...
‘Out of your league’: Shakira song mocking ex Gerard Piqué breaks YouTube record
Video with DJ Bizarrap ridiculing footballer’s new relationship racks up 63m views in 24 hours A savage new song by Shakira in which the Colombian...
