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Colombia

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    News in-depthAmericas politics & policy
    The healthcare crisis pitting Colombia’s leftist leader against business

    Gustavo Petro accused of ‘destroying’ system as he pushes on with what he says is necessary overhaul

    Demonstrators protest against the government of Gustavo Petro over health and pension reforms
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Colombia’s leftist leader turns radical with bid to rewrite constitution

    Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro demands ‘people’s assemblies’ to implement sweeping reforms

    Gustavo Petro at a May Day rally in Bogotá
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Pablo Escobar
    ‘Pablo Escobar’ cannot be registered as a trademark, EU court rules

    Registering name of dead Colombian drug kingpin would flout ‘fundamental values and moral standards’

    Pablo Escobar
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Borderlands
    The migrant highway that could sway the US election

    The Darién Gap has become a key migration route for people heading towards the US

  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Global migration
    Colombian ferry strike halts migration to US via treacherous border crossing

    About 3,000 migrants trying to reach Panama via Darién Gap have been stranded with more arriving every day

    Migrants board a boat in Necoclí, Colombia, bound for the Darién Gap in October last year
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana’s favourite bars around the world

    From Madrid to Melbourne via Colombo, Copenhagen and Cartagena: 13 of the cocktail maestro’s top watering holes

    Ryan ‘Mr Lyan’ Chetiyawardana
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    News in-depth
    Colombia’s leader promised ‘total peace’. Then violence surged

    Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro’s strategy criticised as security vacuum allows kidnappings and extortion to soar

    Children walk past a field of crosses bearing the names of victims of Colombia’s illegal gang violence
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    Colombian rebel group releases father of footballer Luis Díaz

    Thirteen-day abduction piled pressure on President Gustavo Petro’s peace talks with guerrilla organisations

    Luis Manuel Díaz
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    Colombia’s leftist president dealt blow in local elections

    Gustavo Petro’s allies suffer ‘punishment vote’ as opposition sweeps mayoral races in major cities

    Colombian president Gustavo Petro
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Chinese trade
    US ally Colombia swings towards China

    President Xi Jinping agrees to deepen ties during counterpart Gustavo Petro’s visit to Beijing

    Colombian president Gustavo Petro, left, and Chinese president Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on October 25 2023
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    ‘Armed groups, coca crops and death’: how prices crashed for cocaine’s raw material

    Oversupply in Colombia is attributed to the vertical integration of production and breaking of Farc’s monopoly

    An armed police officer stands guard in a coca field in Tumaco, Colombia
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Drug trafficking
    Colombia’s coca production at all-time high, UN says

    Rise in the main cocaine ingredient comes as the country’s government re-examines its approach to drugs

    Police in a coca field in Colombia.
  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    Haiti
    Colombian ex-soldier pleads guilty to conspiring in Haiti president’s murder

    Defendant will co-operate with US authorities investigating brazen assassination in country plagued by gang violence

  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    News in-depthEcuador
    Political violence in Ecuador damages socialists’ chances of regaining power

    Voters look for tough pledges on security as blame game continues over assassination of centre-right candidate

    Christian Zurita, second from left, who replaces slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavencencio, gives a press conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Ecuador
    Ecuador holds Colombians over presidential candidate’s assassination

    Police probe gun killing of Fernando Villavicencio ahead of election as FBI sends agents to help

    Six men stand against a wall with hands behind their backs
  • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
    ObituaryMalcolm Deas
    Malcolm Deas, historian, 1941-2023

    A sage adviser to spies and Colombian presidents, he was the acme of an Oxford don

    Malcolm Deas receives an award in Barranquilla, Colombia. His ideas helped shape the security policies that tamed the country’s drug cartels and end its civil conflict
  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    Colombia’s leftist government rattled by campaign finance probe

    Analysts say arrest of Gustavo Petro’s son cuts president’s room for manoeuvre in pressing ahead with spending plans

    Nicolas Petro and his ex-wife Daysuris Vasquez, at a court hearing in Bogota on July 30 2023
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    News in-depthAmericas economy
    South America braced for economic hit from return of El Niño

    Extreme weather phenomenon could spark inflationary surge due to food and energy shortages

    People try to salvage belongings in flooded part of Ecuador
  • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
    Colombian president’s son arrested on money laundering charges

    Arrest comes amid wider election finance scandal hurting Gustavo Petro’s leftist government

  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    EU trade
    Why Colombia’s president prefers China’s cash over EU economics Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Moscow withdraws from the Ukraine grain deal, again

    Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro, left, with Ursula von der Leyen
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Interview
    Petro courts foreign investors to fulfil Colombia’s ‘potential’ beyond oil

    President’s agenda stutters, with markets betting that leftist leader lacks support to implement radical reforms

    Gustavo Petro
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Colombia’s ‘nannygate’ affair roils leftist government

    Missing briefcase of cash, forced polygraph tests and wiretapping claims feature in escalating scandal

    From left, Marelbys Meza, former babysitter,  and Laura Sarabia, former chief of staff
  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Special ReportThriving Cities
    Barranquilla shakes off industrial past in bid to protect biodiversity

    The Colombian port city is embracing green urban development, from transforming the riverfront to building new parks

    Street scene in Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
    Colombia doubles down on shift away from oil and mining

    New finance minister says country wants to restore manufacturing of textiles, fertilisers and pharmaceuticals

    Ricardo Bonilla
  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Colombia’s finance minister ousted by leftist president

    Gustavo Petro reshuffles his cabinet amid loss of majority in congress as he struggles to advance legislative agenda

    Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s president
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