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Colombia to keep fighting drugs, criminal groups amid drive for total peace

Colombia's security forces will keep up their offensive against drug traffickers and illegal armed groups, even as President Gustavo Petro pushes for "total peace" in the Andean country, Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez told Reuters.

Reuters · Oct 10, 2022

Hurricane Julia bears down on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast

Hurricane Julia is bearing down on Nicaragua’s central Caribbean coast after lashing Colombia’s San Andres island in a close pass-by

The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2022

Julia hits Central America and may cause life-threatening floods

The storm swept across Nicaragua and has emerged over the Pacific. The region was already saturated by weeks of heavy rains before Julia arrived.

WEKU · Oct 9, 2022

Tropical Storm Julia forms near Colombia, forecast to be a hurricane soon

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Julia formed off the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia Friday morning and is forecast to turn into a hurricane this weekend while it moves across the Caribbean Sea toward Nicaragua.

Miami Herald · Oct 7, 2022

Former Colombian finance ministers criticize Petro comments on central bank

A string of former Colombian finance ministers criticized the Andean country's President Gustavo Petro on Thursday after he took to Twitter to question the central bank's decision to hike its benchmark interest rate last week.

Reuters · Oct 6, 2022

Tax-the-rich push gives Miami’s condo king an opening in Colombia

As the child of Cuban parents growing up in the 1950s, Jorge Perez found refuge from the island’s political upheaval in Bogota. Decades later, as a billionaire developer, Perez is courting Colombians who fear their own country’s leftist shift.

Tribune News Service · Oct 6, 2022

Blockchain Interoperability, New Tech, and Lofty Goals: Interview With Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann at Cosmoverse 2022

Hosted in Colombia last month, Cosmoverse 2022 curated thought leaders within the still nascent industry of blockchain interoperability. Among these speakers was industry veteran Kadan Stadelmann, who helped build Komodo, a technology that aims to facilitate a cross-chain future for blockchain networks. 

Benzinga · Oct 5, 2022

Good News For Colombia: Legislators Approve Cannabis Legalization Bill, What's Next?

Colombia lawmakers have approved a bill to legalize and regulate cannabis nationwide, advancing it through a committee with nearly unanimous support.

Benzinga · Oct 5, 2022

On Latin America visit, Blinken calls Colombian migration center ‘a remarkable model’

BOGOTA, Colombia — A new program designed to help settle Venezuelans who fled to Colombia could serve as a “model for the world” in dealing with today’s unprecedented wave of immigration and forced displacement, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Tuesday.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 5, 2022

Colombia and ELN rebels to restart peace talks

Delegates of Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group announced that they will restart peace talks that were suspended in 2018

The Independent UK · Oct 4, 2022