Tag: Colombia
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Colombia president enacts law banning bullfighting
In front of a crowd gathered at the bullring in the capital Bogota, renamed the Santamaria Cultural Square, Petro on Monday celebrated ending the “right to kill” animals for entertainment. “Culture, and even less the justice (system), cannot say that it is culture to kill sentient beings, living creatures, for pleasure,” said Petro, in reference…
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Journalist investigating corruption killed in Colombia
Bogotá, Colombia – A Colombian journalist investigating corruption was killed over the weekend in a city near the border with Venezuela, officials said Monday. The reporter, 54-year-old Jaime Vasquez, was shot in Cucuta in front of about a dozen witnesses, according to security videos released by local media. Prosecutors say the gunman fled on a motorbike.…
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Woman arrested for smuggling 130 poisonous frogs
BOGOTA: Authorities in Colombia seized 130 poisonous frogs being trafficked through the Bogota airport on Monday and arrested the Brazilian woman carrying them. The woman was transporting the colorful harlequin poison frogs (oophaga histrionica) inside film containers while travelling to Sao Paulo with a stopover in Panama. She “claimed that a local community had given…
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40 countries to hold elections in 2024, including Pakistan
The new year is just over one month away and it is going to be the biggest election year in history yet. 40 countries are scheduled to vote in 2024 across the globe which, as calculated by Bloomberg Economics, represent 41% of the world’s population and 42% of its global GDP. The marathon will begin…
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‘If Israel does not stop massacre of Palestinians, we cannot be there’: Colombia warns
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has warned Israel about breaking off diplomatic ties if the country does not stop attacks in the Gaza Strip. Colombia recalled its ambassador to Israel on Tuesday. “I have decided to recall our ambassador to Israel for consultations. If Israel does not stop the massacre of the Palestinian people, we cannot…
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Colombia to open embassy in Palestine
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been very vocal in his condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza. In one of his recent statements, after a meeting with both the ambassadors of Palestine and Israel, he showed his solidarity with the children from both sides and pledged to open an Embassy in Ramallah, Palestine. “I have expressed…
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Four children, including one-year-old baby, found alive 40 days after plane crash
In a stunning case of survival, four children, including a one-year-old baby, have been found alive 40 days after their aircraft crashed in Colombia’s Amazon forest, the country’s President Gustavo Petro has confirmed. The children, aged 13, nine, four and one, were traveling with their mother, a pilot and a co-pilot in a private aircraft…
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Cow barges into hospital, attacks visitors
An escaped cow attacked people in a hospital’s waiting room in Colombia resulting in a panic. The incident took place at the Hospital, San Rafael, in the northwestern Colombian department of Antioquia on Saturday. CCTV footage shows visitors running to a corner for safety after being attacked by the cow. A woman got hurt after…