Colombia is preparing to receive around four million Venezuelans over the coming years as the humanitarian crisis under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship continues to worsen.
Nearly two million people have fled Venezuela since 2015 as the economic and humanitarian catastrophe under Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime continues to fester international alarm.
Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro made his way to New York Wednesday to address the United Nations General Assembly, where he accused the United States of orchestrating a terrorist attack against him and, without mentioning the grave humanitarian crisis his government created, declared, “Venezuela is stronger than ever.”
Colombia’s conservative president Iván Duque made his first address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, demanding global intervention to stop the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela from “annihilating the freedoms” of its people.
Five prominent Latin American democracies will ask the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday to investigate Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime in Venezuela on charges of crimes against humanity.
U.S. President Donald Trump, while speaking at the United Nations Monday, attributed hardline conservative Iván Duque’s recent presidential election victory over his leftist opponent in Colombia to his aggressive anti-drugs policy at a time when the country is reportedly producing more cocaine than ever.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime revealed in a report Wednesday that Colombia produced record yields of cocaine in 2017, a major blow to joint U.S.-Colombian investment in dissuading peasants from harvesting coca leaf and an outcome some conservatives predicted as inevitable to peace talks with the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Colombia, Canada, and Guyana refused to sign a declaration ruling out a military solution to the crisis in Venezuela on Sunday, agreeing with comments by the head of the Organization of American States.
Contents: Latin American countries open their borders to migrants from Socialist Venezuela; Venezuela’s Socialist president Maduro refuses humanitarian aid
TEL AVIV – Colombia’s new president Ivan Duque on Monday said that he would not walk back his predecessor’s decision last month to recognize a Palestinian state. “Damage was done by the fact that there was not more institutional discussion.
Venezuela’s socialist regime accepted humanitarian aid in the form of medical assistance from China this week in an effort to diminish the impact of the collapse of the nation’s health care system.
Nearly all of the criminal illegal and legal immigrants incarcerated in American prisons derive from six countries in Central and South America.
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Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on Monday that the masterminds of Saturday’s drone assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro have been identified and two drone pilots are under arrest.
Venezuelan police announced six arrests on Sunday with the promise of more to come following an alleged assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro using explosive-laden drones. Maduro ally President Evo Morales of Bolivia accused the U.S. government of masterminding the plot, a charge swiftly denied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.
The United States announced on Monday a further $6 million aid package to help Venezuelan refugees fleeing the neighboring country of Colombia.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in remarks Thursday that the United States wishes to engineer an “armed confrontation” between Venezuelan troops and Colombian paramilitaries.
One of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s socialist lawmakers warned on Monday that the military would bomb Colombia should the Trump administration employ a military solution against the regime.
Colombia’s conservative right clinched a decisive victory Sunday, handing the reins of the country over to now President-elect Iván Duque.
Colombia officially declared conservative candidate Iván Duque the winner of Sunday’s presidential election after decisively defeating his hard-left opponent Gustavo Petro.
Colombia will see its top two presidential candidates – law-and-order conservative Iván Duque and leftist former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro – move on to a runoff vote after Duque won Sunday’s election with 39.14 percent of the vote.
Colombia is preparing to vote to replace President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday, in an election with significant implications for both the United States and the region as a whole.
Several countries have withdrawn their diplomats from Venezuela this week following a sham presidential election that helped cement socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s grip on power.
Colombia is receiving more refugees from Venezuela each month than Italy did from the Middle East and Africa when the European migrant crisis, dubbed the worst refugee calamity since World War II, reached its pinnacle, a United Nations official asserted Monday.
President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador abruptly announced in an interview Wednesday that his country would cease participating in peace talks between Colombia and the communist guerrilla National Liberation Army (ELN).
A top peace negotiator for the Colombian terrorist group FARC who was expected to take a lawmaking seat in Colombia’s Congress this year was arrested late Monday on charges of attempting to traffic ten tons of cocaine into the United States.
President Donald Trump has canceled his trip to the Summit of the Americas, where he was expected to meet with leaders of Latin American countries.
Angry Colombians have demonstrated their frustration at the growing numbers of Venezuelan refugees seeking refuge in their country by dousing them with rotten urine.
Brazilians living in the border state of Roraima violently protested against the recent influx of Venezuelan refugees fleeing their country this week by attacking and robbing them.
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Police in Colombia arrested a Cuban national illegally present in the country on Tuesday after communications with Islamic State-affiliated individuals through the encrypted app Telegram revealed he was plotting a jihadist attack on the capital, Bogotá.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced during Monday’s press briefing that President Donald Trump will travel to Peru and Colombia in April.
Colombia’s conservative Democratic Center party took control of the upper house of Congress and captured the presidential nomination in a primary open to all right-wing political parties on Sunday, a sign Colombians have shifted rightward since President Juan Manuel Santos legalized the FARC terrorist group last year.
The Marxist FARC terrorist group, now a legalized political party, announced its withdrawal from the Colombian presidential race on Thursday following its leader and presidential candidate, “Timochenko,” suffering a heart attack.
Tensions between Colombians and Venezuelan refugees on the border of the two nations are growing as locals fear the migrants will leave them jobless in their hometowns.
