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Oct 3, 2021 · AGC / “Gulf Clan” | FARC dissidents | “Puntilleros” | EPL / “Pelusos” | Caparrapos | Oficina de Envigado | Mafia de Sinaloa | LDNP | Cordillera | Pachenca ELN activity (2020) The …

Oct 25, 2021 · The rearmament. When then-President Alvaro Uribe ordered the arrest of the demobilized paramilitary leadership later in 2006, Vicente Castaño, the brother of AUC …

Colombia’s Congress sunk the government’s budget finance bill, which sought to close a $2.8 billion budget gap. The congressional economy commissions voted to discard the bill weeks …

Around a little southwest Colombian town called San Agustin lay archaeological remains that tell stories of Gods, masters, and ordinary people belonging to a culture that flourished between …

Jan 12, 2023 · To produce one kilo of cocaine some 125 kilos of coca is needed, which would cost a local drug lab $137.50. Once the lab has turned the coca leaves first into coca paste, …

Colombia’s Jaime Cabal has been appointed deputy secretary general of the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Cabal will be the UN organization’s second most …

Sep 25, 2023 · Poverty in Colombia decreased in last year after a major surge caused by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.. Colombia’s poverty rate. Colombia poverty rate dropped …

May 14, 2022 · The FARC, whose commune in southwest Colombia was attacked by the military half a year before Simacota, would not carry out its first offensive until 1966.. That same year …