CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Armando Benedetti claimed on Tuesday that the Biden Administration is evaluating lifting American sanctions on the Venezuelan socialist regime.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, a radical leftist and once-member of the Marxist April 19th (M-19) Movement guerrilla, touted his past as an urban insurgent in a plea to the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday to implement “revolutionary” reforms to its Democratic Charter.
Biden’s border chief is expanding his migrant transfer camps in Panama, even as he says he will clamp down on the global migrants who are using the camps to reach the United States.
President Joe Biden’s border chief is shutting down the deadly Darien Gap jungle trail in Panama that he built for migrants in 2021 — just as a huge wave of northbound migrants is overwhelming his “CBP One” border management system.
The mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Daniel Quintero Calle, announced this weekend that the city’s council has approved the budget to build a new metropolitan jail in the same style as the one built by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and recently inaugurated in February.
The human rights organization Freedom House documented the smallest decline in number of countries becoming more authoritarian in 17 years in its 2023 report, a sign to be “optimistic” that a “turning point” has arrived in global liberty, report co-author Yana Gorokhovskaia told Breitbart News.
The Ombudsman’s Office of Colombia warned on Thursday that the government had reason to believe a wing of the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) terrorist organization had turned an entire town in the nation’s west into a recruitment and training center for child soldiers.
Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele clashed on Wednesday after Petro, a former member of a Marxist terror guerrilla, called Bukele’s “mega prison” for alleged gang members a “concentration camp.”
Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro, a former urban guerrilla fighter who spent ten years running with a murderous Marxist insurgent gang in the 1970s, turned against his ideological fellow traveler Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua on Thursday.
Thousands of Colombians flocked to the streets on Wednesday to peacefully express their dissatisfaction with the nation’s far-left President Gustavo Petro and to protest proposed socialist reforms.
The foreign affairs commission of the Congress of Peru declared Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro persona non grata on Tuesday after Petro compared the actions of Peru’s National Police in response to the ongoing wave of violent leftist riots there to those of Nazi Germany.
Colombian authorities shut down a decrepit monkey laboratory on January 30 funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with U.S taxpayers’ dollars following revelations of animal abuse, neglect, and potential fraud.
The Foreign Relations and Worship Ministry of Costa Rica revealed on Monday that the Chinese Communist Party had apologized to the country after a balloon had deviated into Costa Rican airspace, less than a week after the Pentagon shot down a similar invading vessel over the Atlantic Ocean.
Balloon-mania spread across the world this weekend as South Korea reported an incursion by a North Korean balloon into its territory, and the Colombian military confirmed a sighting of a “balloon-like object” within its airspace.
The Colombian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that cocaine seizures in 2022 added up to 671 metric tons, which was 1.7 tonnes more than the already record-setting total from 2021.
Energy Minister Irene Vélez of Colombia confirmed on Thursday that the South American nation will stop awarding new oil and gas exploration contracts, a decision that she described as “absolutely urgent.”
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro told the World Economic Forum, a gathering of the world’s global elite, on Wednesday that surviving climate change requires humans to “overcome capitalism.”
The governments of Guatemala and Colombia are at an impasse after Guatemala’s Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity announced on Monday that it would take unspecified “legal actions” against Colombian Defense Minister Iván Velásquez.
A drive-by shooting at a church memorial service in London that left four women and two children injured, including a seven-year-old girl still fighting for her life, may have been linked to a Colombian drug cartel.
The latest batch of the “Twitter files” document dump released by Matt Taibbi on Tuesday revealed that throngs of Russian-operated bot accounts on Twitter supported far-left Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s campaign last year.
More Chinese economic migrants are joining the scramble for the United States as President Joe Biden’s deputies widen legal loopholes in the southern border, according to a U.S.-funded news agency.
Police offices in Colombia are documenting “extreme” environmental damage, Reuters reported on Friday, caused by thieves who steal oil from pipelines to create an ugly improvised fuel called pategrillo.
Far-left protesters wreaked havoc across Lima, Peru, and other regions of the South American nation on Monday after the impeachment and arrest of former communist president Pedro Castillo.
Colombia’s far-left vice president Francia Márquez demanded on Monday that United Nations member states commit to “establish[ing] historical reparations actions” for Afro-descendants and African people in the name of “racial justice.”
President Joe Biden’s State Department used taxpayer dollars to fund a pro-LGBT group in Colombia that supports the legalization of prostitution.
CARACAS, Venezuela – The government of Colombia and the Marxist National Liberation Army (ELN) terrorist organization initiated peace talks on Monday in Venezuela under the auspices of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Parents and lawmakers expressed outrage Wednesday over a proposed piece of legislation that seeks to implement “sexual education spaces” across all public and private schools in Colombia.
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro delivered a speech to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt on Monday in which he called for an immediate halt to using fossil fuels and presented a list of “ten commandments” to fight off climate change.
The ambitious tax reform spearheaded by Colombia’s far-left president Gustavo Petro was finally approved by both chambers of Colombia’s Congress on Thursday. The tax plan, introduced by Petro a day after he took office in August, hopes to collect upwards of 20 billion Colombian Pesos ($4 billion) from 2023 onwards.
CARACAS, Venezuela – Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro traveled to Venezuela on Tuesday to meet with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the first official encounter between both heads of state after the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between both countries in August.
Production of coca crops and potential production of cocaine in Colombia reached its highest recorded levels in two decades in 2021, according to a report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Integrated Illicit Crop Monitoring System (SIMCI) this month.
A teacher from Colombia has reportedly been fired for posting sexy photos of herself on her Instagram profile.
Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro accused the United States on Wednesday of “ruining all the economies of the world,” deflecting blame as Colombia, whose economy is currently at risk of entering a recession, faces the worst decline in the value of the country’s peso currency and the highest annual inflation rate in over two decades.
The Director of Colombia’s National Directorate of Taxes and Customs (DIAN), Luis Carlos Reyes, declared on Thursday that it is “time to legalize and tax” cocaine in the South American nation, the world’s top cocaine producer.
The left-wing elite magazine the Economist called for the legalization of cocaine in a column this week, calling leftist President Joe Biden “too timid” for not publicly considering it and going so far as to claim that Marxist Colombian President Gustavo Petro – who called for decriminalizing the cocaine trade at the United Nations last month, also needed to be more extreme.
Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro said during a press conference with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Bogotá on Monday that Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Colombian nationals in America was “necessary” in anticipation of a global “exodus” allegedly caused by climate change.
Colombian Senator Alirio Barrera arrived on horseback to Congress on Monday following a new ruling passed by the president of the Senate the week prior that declared the nation’s legislative building as “pet-friendly.”
Thousands of conservatives convened in at least 35 cities in Colombia on Monday to protest a series of government reforms proposed by far-left President Gustavo Petro, including tax increases to fund social programs, establishing ties with Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, and building a universal health care system.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro devoted much of his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to call for an end to the United States’s “war on drugs” while denouncing the consumption of “poisonous” coal and oil.
The new president of Colombia is looking to stop the extradition of drug lords who negotiate with his government. Drug lords who do not negotiate would be extradited to the U.S. and other countries as they make requests.