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UN envoy: Colombian president's commitments to rural reforms and peace efforts highlight first year

Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s commitment to transform long-marginalized rural and conflict areas and new peace efforts were the highlights of his first year in office, the U.N. special envoy for the South American country said

The Independent UK

Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon

Indigenous peoples in Colombia are being targeted and fragmented by armed groups who plunder the forest for gold and timber and take control of land

The Guardian - UK

Mexico's president says 10,000 migrants a day head to US border; he blames US sanctions on Cuba

Mexico’s president says that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blames U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx

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Colombia's presidential office manipulates video of President Petro at UN to hype applause

The Colombian government manipulated a video to alter the applause received by President Gustavo Petro received during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York

The Independent UK

Colombian leader summons intense oratory for a bleak warning: that humanity is making itself extinct

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has delivered an ominous prophecy with grandiose language

The Independent UK

President Gustavo Petro's plan for 'total peace' in Colombia: Takeaways from AP's report

Across Colombia, decades of war between leftist guerrillas, rightwing paramilitaries, trafficking groups and the government have left more than 9.5 million people as victims of forced displacement, homicide, sexual violence and more

The Independent UK

Colombia's president has a plan for 'total peace.' But militias aren't putting down their guns yet

When elected, Colombia’s rebel-turned-president Gustavo Petro promised to cement “total peace” and end one of the world’s longest-running conflicts

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UN says Colombia's coca crop at all-time high as officials promote new drug policies

The U.N. says coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year the administration of President Gustavo Petro struggles to reduce poverty in remote areas and contain armed groups that are profiting from the cocaine trade

The Independent UK

Colombia: former Farc fighters who signed 2016 peace deal now live amid threats and assassinations

Former members of the Farc guerrilla army in Colombia who laid down their arms as part of a peace deal in 2016 are being forced off the land they were allowed to settle after they demobilised.

The Conversation

Thousands take to Colombia’s streets to protest 50% increase in gasoline prices

Thousands of protesters on cars and motorbikes have taken to the streets of Colombia’s main cities to reject recent hikes in gasoline prices that have drastically increased the price of fuel in the South American country

The Independent UK

Senator Rubio urges Biden administration to freeze a former warlord's extradition to Colombia

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is calling on the Biden administration to reject Colombia’s request for extradition of a former warlord after he was named a peace envoy in the South American nation

The Independent UK

Colombia’s leftwing president rocked by spiralling narco cash allegations

Drug money claims involving Gustavo Petro’s son Nicolás could hamper progressive agenda

The Guardian - UK

Western donors face fire of Amazon nations at Brazil summit

Donors from industrialised nations were under pressure on Wednesday at a top level conference on the Amazon to do more to help preserve the world's largest rainforest.

Radio France Internationale

Amazon leaders fail to commit to end deforestation by 2030

Eight South American presidents including Brazil’s Lula say rich countries need to pledge more resources to help protect rainforest

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Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge action from industrialized world

Eight Amazon nations have called on industrialized countries to do more to help preserve the world’s largest rainforest as they meet in a major summit in Brazil to seek to chart a common course on how to combat climate change

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Brazilian president Lula pledges ‘new Amazon dream’ at rainforest summit

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sets out ambitious programme to repair damage done by Bolsonaro and tackle environmental crime

The Independent UK

Eight Amazon rainforest countries open summit in Belem, Brazil

It’s been 14 years since the eight countries of the Amazon region convened in a summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization

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Colombia's first leftist president is stalled by congress and a campaign finance scandal

Colombian President Gustavo Petro took office laying out ambitious goals for the nation’s first leftist government

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Son of Colombia's president freed while he is investigated for illicit enrichment, money laundering

A judge in Colombia has ordered President Gustavo Petro’s son freed from detention while he is investigated on allegations of illicit enrichment and money laundering

The Independent UK

The son of Colombia's president says his father's election campaign received money of dubious origin

The son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro has acknowledged that his father’s 2022 election campaign received money of dubious origin, according prosecutors investigating Nicolás Petro for alleged illicit enrichment and money laundering

The Independent UK

Colombia begins a six-month cease-fire with its last remaining rebel group in hopes of forging peace

Colombia’s government and the National Liberation Army, or ELN, have formally begun a six-month cease-fire as part of a process to forge a permanent peace between authorities and the country’s last remaining rebel group

The Independent UK

Son of Colombia's president is charged with money laundering

The son of Colombia’s president has been charged with money laundering and illicit enrichment

The Independent UK

Son of Colombia's president arrested as part of money laundering probe

Police have arrested the son of Colombia’s president as part of a high-profile money laundering probe into funds he allegedly collected during last year’s presidential campaign

The Guardian - US

‘Insult to his victims’: outrage as warlord appointed ‘peace manager’ in Colombia

Salvatore Mancuso, who is imprisoned in US, is responsible for more than 300 killings and is accused of about 75,000 crimes

The Independent UK

Biden administration suspends satellite monitoring of Colombian coca crops amid surge in cocaine

The Biden administration has quietly suspended satellite monitoring of coca crops in Colombia amid a surge of cocaine flowing into the U.S. from South America

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