A COVID-19 variant that first emerged in Colombia in January is rapidly spreading in the United States, according to health experts. The variant, also known as B.1.621, currently accounts for some 10 percent of cases that were genetically sequenced at the University of Miami’s pathology lab last week, reported news station WPLG. “In the last…
First Delta Variant Case Confirmed in Colombia
Colombia has its first case of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant strain, Colombian President Ivan Duque confirmed Saturday. The first case of this new infectious variant in the country was an international traveler who arrived in Cali from the United States. The president stressed the fact that the new variant comes at a relatively…
Colombia Arrests 10 Over Attacks on Duque’s Helicopter, Military Base
BOGOTA—Colombia has arrested 10 people accused of involvement in attacks on a helicopter carrying President Ivan Duque and a military base last month that officials said on Thursday were planned by former FARC terrorist leaders based in Venezuela. The car bombing at the base in the northeastern city of Cucuta, home to the army’s 30th…
Colombian President Says Some Suspects Had ‘Detailed Knowledge’ of Haiti Plot
PORT-AU-PRINCE—Some of the former Colombian soldiers accused of involvement in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise went to Haiti to work as bodyguards, but others knew a crime was being planned, Colombia’s president said on Thursday. Haitian authorities have said Moise was shot dead at his home on July 7 by a group of assassins…
Colombia Is Under Siege by Marxist Narcoterrorists
Commentary Organized guerrillas and a totalitarian regime are attempting to overthrow the legitimate government of Colombia, the most crucial U.S. ally in Latin America. Funded by narco-dollars and motivated by power and Marxist ideology, this terrorist alliance has propagated a misperception: that its mass violence in Colombian cities, which spiked on April 28, began as…
US to Ship 2.5 Million Doses of J&J Vaccine to Colombia
July 1, 2021
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The United States plans to ship 2.5 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine to Colombia, the White House said Wednesday. The Colombian president’s office said Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden told President Ivan Duque of the donation in a call during which they also discussed reactivating the economy, jobs, climate change and…
Helicopter Carrying Colombia’s President Duque Struck by Bullets in Attack
BOGOTA—A helicopter carrying Colombia’s President Ivan Duque and others was struck by multiple bullets in an attack on Friday, he said in a video message. The incident took place while the president’s helicopter was flying through Colombia’s Catatumbo region toward the city of Cucuta, capital of the country’s Norte de Santander province, Duque said. “What’s…
10 Percent of Migrants Who Enter Darien Gap Don’t Survive: War Correspondent
June 8, 2021
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Roughly 10 percent of migrants who journey on the seven- to 10-day walk through the inhospitable Darien jungle, which extends into Panama from Colombia, don’t survive, according to war correspondent Michael Yon.
Colombia Reopens Border With Venezuela After 14 Months
BOGOTA — Colombia on June 2 began what its government called a gradual reopening of its border with Venezuela after a 14-month closure intended to curb the spread of COVID-19. Colombia, whose porous border with Venezuela extends roughly 1,380 miles (2,220 km), has been the chief destination for Venezuelans fleeing their country’s social and economic…
Colombia’s Astonishing Las Lajas Shrine
It is 1754. A violent storm erupts over Ipiales in south Colombia, just seven miles shy of Ecuador. Amerindian Maria Meneses de Quiñones and her deaf-mute daughter Rosa frantically search for shelter, having been caught out in a canyon. Finding a suitable space, the two huddle together between two “laja,” two slabs of flat rock…
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