Colombia guerrilla group the ELN releases six prisoners
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s biggest active guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), released six hostages on Sunday in the north east of the country,…
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Video calls connect anxious parents to hospitalized newborns in Colombia
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Deysi Silva cannot see, hug or kiss her infant daughter. The child, born last month at a hospital in Colombia’s capital Bogota…
Colombia will not ease quarantine in capital, cities hit hard by coronavirus
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia issued new measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus in three of its most affected cities on Saturday, including…
Colombian factory adds bedrooms for workers as economy slowly reopens
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian seamstress Nazly Penagos got an unusual offer from her boss: come live inside the Bogota factory to reduce the chance of…
Residents of Bogota slum facing eviction despite quarantine
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Hundreds of people expected to be evicted from their hillside homes in a slum of Colombia’s capital Bogota on Friday, despite having…
Colombia says over 52,000 Venezuelans return home, cites lockdown
BOGOTA (Reuters) – More than 52,000 Venezuelans have voluntarily returned to their country from Colombia during the coronavirus lockdown, Colombia’s migration agency said on Tuesday….
Venezuelan migrants block Bogota road, demand to travel home
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A large crowd of Venezuelan migrants held up traffic on a Bogota highway on Wednesday, demanding to be allowed to leave Colombia…
Venezuelan migrants block Bogota road, demand ability to travel home
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A large crowd of Venezuelan migrants held up traffic on a Bogota highway on Wednesday, demanding to be allowed to leave Colombia…
Bogota residents donate $13M to help poor through quarantine
Residents of Colombia’s capital Bogota raised $13 million (COP52 billion)on Sunday to help the city’s poor through a quarantine that is in place to slow…
$5 cans of tuna: Colombia corruption thrives during coronavirus outbreak
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian authorities have detected widespread overcharging for food and medical supplies meant to help the Andean country deal with its coronavirus outbreak,…
