BOGOTA—Colombia’s police captured five people during raids in the Andean country’s second city Medellin and surrounding areas in connection with a bombing earlier this month at an airport in the northern city of Cucuta, it said on Tuesday. Three people, including two police officers, were killed on Dec. 14 after bombs exploded at the airport,…
Colombia Will Manufacture CCP Virus Vaccines in 2022
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia—Colombia’s President Ivan Duque said on Dec. 16 his country will begin producing vaccines for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus in 2022. The announcement came after Colombian and Canadian research companies reached a partnership agreement. In a press release, Duque said, “Providence Therapeutics hopes to have, from February, clinical tests of the development of its vaccines…
Florida’s DeSantis Warns Against Removing Communist Rebels From Terrorist List: ‘A Serious Mistake’
November 25, 2021
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has voiced opposition against Biden administration’s reported attempt to remove a Colombian communist rebel group from the list of designated foreign terrorist organizations, calling it “an insult” to the Colombian American community in his state. Financed by extortion, kidnapping, and a billion-dollar cocaine trafficking operation, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia…
Colombian Family Seeks Asylum in US, Flees Extortion, Violence
Just before dawn, erratic wind gusts whirl sand and dust into the crisp October air in Coachella Valley as a pair of tinted-window tour buses pull into a cul-de-sac at the United States Border Patrol station in Indio, Calif. The buses park strategically obscuring the entrance to a compound whose pale-yellow walls are crowned with…
Colombia’s Most Wanted Drug Lord Captured in Jungle Raid
BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombian security forces have captured the country’s most wanted drug trafficker, a rural warlord who stayed on the run for more than a decade by corrupting state officials and aligning himself with combatants on the left and right. President Iván Duque likened the arrest Saturday of Dairo Antonio Úsuga to the capture three decades…
Colombians Blame CCP Virus Lockdowns for Surge in Crime and Poverty
Residents in Bogotá, Colombia, have expressed fear and anger over a rise in violent crime that followed on the heels of pandemic restrictions, which caused inflated poverty and unemployment rates beginning in March 2020. “It doesn’t feel safe anymore,” Camila Garcia, 23, told The Epoch Times. “My family lives in Rosales [in Bogotá]. It was…
Thousands of Haitians Leave Colombia for the United States
NECOCLI, Colombia—In the Colombian beach town of Necocli, thousands of Haitian migrants live in a makeshift tent city while waiting to cross the Gulf of Uraba into Panama through the Darien Gap. While Necocli always has been a stopover point on the caravan route to the United States, the number of migrants has increased dramatically since…
Colombia Campaign Violence Has Killed 6, Toll Likely to Rise: NGO
BOGOTA—Violence associated with campaigning for Colombia’s 2022 presidential and legislative elections occurred every four days over the past five months, an observation group reported on Wednesday, warning that threats and killings may increase as voting draws closer. Between March 13 and Aug. 23 there were 29 violent incidents, which claimed six lives, the Peace and…
Explosion at Colombian Police Station Leaves 13 Injured
BOGOTA, Colombia—At least 13 people were injured following an explosion at a police station near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, officials in the city of Cucuta said on Monday. Police said the explosion was caused by an “improvised explosive device” that was left at the station, which is located in one of Cucuta’s lower income neighborhoods….
Colombia Seizes Explosives, Says It Foils Bogota Attack
BOGOTA—Colombian police have confiscated 67 kg (148 pounds) of explosives from former FARC terrorists who planned to carry out an attack in the capital Bogota, the government said on Thursday. Defense Minister Diego Molano said the attack was planned by leaders of dissident former members of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who…
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