Tag: Colombia

• Thursday, March 28th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

  Colombia expels Argentina's diplomatic mission over Milei statements against Petro

  

  Gustavo Petro ordered all of Argentina's diplomatic staff in Colombia expelled after derogatory remarks against him by fellow President Javier Milei during an interview with CNN. The Libertarian leader called him a “murderer, terrorist,” given his past as a M-19 guerrilla fighter. Colombia also withdrew its Ambassador from Buenos Aires.

• Friday, February 16th 2024 - 11:28 UTC

  Defendant sentenced to nearly 40 years for involvement in Pecci's murder

  

  Defendant Margareth Lizeth Chacón Zúñiga was sentenced Thursday by a court in Cartagena to 39 years and 10 months in prison for her involvement in the murder of Paraguayan anti-Mafia Prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in May 2022 while honeymooning in Colombia. Pecci's family requested for Chacón the maximum sentence of 47 years in prison.

• Saturday, January 27th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Milei: Cabinet crisis, diplomatic clash with Colombia and Argentina “closer” to dollarization

  

  While Argentine President Javier Milei said Friday that his country was closer to dollarizing its economy, Minister Luis 'Toto' Caputo announced that the taxation part of the so-called Omnibus Law bill was being spared for a later date in a move to have the legislation passed as soon as possible to achieve a zero deficit. However, the Chief of State's plans clash with other conflicts within the cabinet and also in diplomatic matters.

• Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 10:49 UTC

  Ecuador's President promises to be tougher than previous administrations

  

  Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa underlined Wednesday that “we are at war and I will not give in.” He made those remarks one day after multiple uprisings by drug trafficking groups particularly in Quito and Guayaquil resulted in at least 18 deaths and over 300 arrests, in addition to the people wounded, for which the head of state declared an “internal armed conflict” against terrorist organizations believed to be 20,000 strong.

• Thursday, January 4th 2024 - 10:18 UTC

  Argentine authorities arrest three people suspected of terrorism

  

  Argentine authorities arrested three men in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) Wednesday. The suspects were believed to be linked to plans to stage terrorist attacks in the country, it was explained.

• Sunday, December 31st 2023 - 23:13 UTC

  Colombia: Petro signs free college education decree

  

  After mistakenly claiming that Argentina had expelled some 20,000 Colombian university students, President Gustavo Petro upped the ante and decreed that such studies would henceforth be free in his country.

• Saturday, December 30th 2023 - 11:16 UTC

  Petro opens arms to free-ride students targeted by Argentine bill

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro Friday announced on social media that his government would assist some 20,000 nationals from his country who might be affected by Argentine President Javier Milei's proposed austerity measures regarding spending cuts including an end to tuition-free studies for non-resident foreigners.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2023 - 09:35 UTC

  Former Colombian soldier enters guilty plea in Moïse's murder trial

  

  Former Colombian soldier Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios has pleaded guilty in a US court to the July 7, 2021, assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, becoming the fifth of 11 defendants to do so in Miami.

• Tuesday, November 7th 2023 - 09:07 UTC

  Colombian president Petro peace program with guerrillas in a blackout

  

  More trouble for embattled Colombian president Gustavo Petro and his ambitious peace program. The main dissident group of former guerrillas, which refused to disarm when the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) accepted a peace deal in 2016, suspended peace talks with the Colombian government on Sunday.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2023 - 08:15 UTC

  Winds are changing in Colombia: Petro the big loser in Sunday's governor and mayor elections

  

  Colombian president Gustavo Petro's allies lost by windfalls in municipal and provincial elections on Sunday, a clear sign of growing discontent with the left-leaning government and some of its promised reforms to the health system and labor bills.