Influencers, AI and viral videos: Abelardo de la Espriella defeats Iván Cepeda in the digital battle
The far-right candidate’s campaign benefited from using content creators to attack rivals and from prioritizing short, emotional messages
Colombia’s super‑rich pack their bags amid the rise of the left: ‘The country is wonderful if you have one foot out the door’
An international firm specializing in helping millionaires relocate has opened in Bogotá. ‘My life plans can’t depend on an election,’ says a 30‑year‑old architect
Cauca, the Colombian region where the state is under attack: ‘There is no one to hold accountable for our dead’
A vicious attack against the civilian population underscores the sense of helplessness in the face of the failed peace policies of the Petro administration. The security crisis has sparked speculation among presidential candidates about the motivations of the armed groups
Colombia authorizes the use of euthanasia to stop the spread of Pablo Escobar’s hippos
The Ministry of Environment explains that no country agreed to take in the invasive species, which arrived in 1981 at the hands of the drug lord
The Swedes searching for their Colombian mothers 40 years after their adoptions: ‘They stole my identity’
A government report from the European country acknowledges that the processes were plagued with irregularities, from the theft of babies to documents with false information.
Colombia’s fashion battle: Garment makers prevail over yarn industry in bid to survive Shein and Temu
The government of Gustavo Petro has granted garment manufacturers’ request to remove tariffs on imported raw materials, while cotton producers warn that the move will devastate their sector: ‘We are facing extinction’
US joins Colombia’s right in denouncing ‘lawfare’ over ex-president Álvaro Uribe’s bribery conviction
American officials and senators back the accusations about the ‘weaponization of the judiciary.’ Gustavo Petro replies that these remarks are ‘an intrusion into national sovereignty’
When drug lords exploit poverty and youth: Four decades of child hitmen in Colombia
The use of teenagers as hired killers dates back to the assassinations of Rodrigo Lara in 1984 and Bernardo Jaramillo in 1990. The practice, which regained visibility after the attack on Miguel Uribe Turbay, never disappeared
Katherine Jaramillo, the teacher who fights against the sexual exploitation of girls in Colombia: ‘The first step is to stop normalizing it’
The co-founder of the NGO Valientes warns that, since the pandemic, this crime has been more prevalent in cities such as Cartagena, Medellín and Bogotá, and digital threats have increased
Eight women take on sexism in the Americas
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The struggle of Latin American women is more urgent than ever in the face of setbacks across the continent. These eight women are at the forefront of the resistance: defending their threatened rights and fighting for those they have yet to secure
Nelson Ardila, kitchen assistant deported by Trump: ‘I had never felt so vulnerable as when they put me in handcuffs’
The Colombian tried to immigrate to the United States to provide greater financial support to his mother and older brother
Deportees at the center of Trump’s spat with Colombia: ‘We are not drug traffickers’
EL PAÍS speaks with the migrants deported on the military planes that the Colombian president refused to let land, a decision that nearly triggered a trade war
Difficult to manipulate, yet fraught with electoral trickery: How Venezuela’s voting system functions
Experts say that polling machines and their printed records are reliable, at least in theory, but warn that Chavismo may discourage participation and threaten voters with revoking their government benefits
US Embassy warns citizens not to use Tinder or Grindr in Medellín after suspicious deaths of eight tourists
There is no evidence of a link between the cases but several of the victims had spent the last hours of their lives with people they met through dating apps
Father of children who survived 40 days in the Colombian jungle arrested for sexual abuse
Manuel Ranoque is accused of mistreating the four minors and their deceased mother
Ignoring the fear or shutting yourself in: People in Bogotá respond to the growing insecurity
Murders have increased by 11% compared to 2022, and the issue of security has become central to the electoral campaign
The Colombian president and his two immediate predecessors are celebrating an International Court of Justice ruling
Gustavo Petro, Iván Duque and Juan Manuel Santos all dealt with Nicaragua’s case against the South American country at The Hague. Vice President Francia Márquez praised the ICJ ruling for paving the way to ‘improving the living conditions of the Raizal people’
Original ‘Ugly Betty’ returns with a new season on Amazon Prime
Actors Ana María Orozco and Jorge Enrique Abello are set to reprise their roles in the most successful ever TV soap opera
The Colombian Army points the finger at the ELN for the kidnapping of a sergeant and her two children
The family disappeared on Monday while traveling through the department of Arauca
Rescued children offer clues about 40 days of survival in Colombia jungle
Lesly, the eldest of the four siblings, used several objects she found in the plane wreckage to improvise a shelter for herself, Soleiny, Tien and Cristin
Rescuers search for 26 migrants missing on sea journey from Colombia to Nicaragua
Authorities from three countries continue to search for a boat that disappeared on December 17. Most of the passengers are Venezuelans
The world’s first known albino ocelot worries scientists
Experts warn that the specimen, a white female raised in the Medellin Conservation Park, is a byproduct of deforestation: ‘There is no need to be happy that it exists’
Human rights commission rejects Colombian president’s attempt to save Peru’s Pedro Castillo
Gustavo Petro – an ally of the former president, who is currently under arrest after trying to shut down Peru’s Congress – asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to intervene, but was told that the body respects the ‘democratic response’ of Peruvian institutions
Indigenous protest in Bogotá descends into clashes with police
At least 24 people were injured, including 11 law enforcement officers who were attacked with sticks and stones by demonstrators protesting their living conditions and the government’s lack of help
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