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Colombia investigates possible plot to assassinate president

Colombia's government says it is investigating a possible plot involving Venezuelans to assassinate President Ivan Duque.

Colombia

Colombia signed a peace deal. So why have 164 community leaders been killed this year?

Colombia’s community leaders are being killed, threatened and harassed at record levels even after the historic peace deal with the FARC. Some 164 community leaders have been assassinated this year.

Cuban Americans will still carry clout in foreign affairs and push an anti-socialism message in the next Congress, where Venezuela will be the top priority for lawmakers like Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez.

Colombia

Colombia raids sex trafficking ring that catered to tourists

Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez says Colombian authorities have detained eight people, including six Israelis and two Colombians, for promoting underage sex to tourists.

Colombia

Colombia hits international gang that promoted sex tourism with children

Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez says Colombian authorities have detained eight people, including six Israelis and two Colombians, for promoting underage sex to tourists.

Venezuela

Venezuelan migrants find hope and healthcare on U.S. hospital ship

The USNS Comfort is on a four nation tour of Latin America. In the Colombian town of Riohacha, the U.S. Navy vessel is seeing Venezuelan migrants.

Venezuela

U.S. hospital ship tends Venezuelan migrants in Colombia

The USNS Comfort is on a four nation tour of Latin America. In the Colombian town of Riohacha, the U.S. Navy vessel is seeing Venezuelan migrants.

Colombia

Colombia will find it hard to accept another 1 million Venezuelan migrants

Colombia Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez said her country cannot carry the full weight of Venezuelan migrants, with more than 1 million already seeking refuge.

Venezuelan immigrants sleep while waiting for a job fair to begin on Sept. 27, 2018, in Medellín, Colombia.

Americas

Venezuelans are pouring into Colombia. That may help the economy — eventually

World Bank study finds that Venezuelan migrants to Colombia could boost the GDP in the long term, even as the influx stresses government institutions in the short term.

Venezuela

Their reporting on Venezuela’s hunger led to exile. Now they’re being honored.

Venezuela website Armando.info is getting the ICFJ’s Knight International Journalism Award for its work shedding light on the country’s food subsidy program. The articles raised hackles in Venezuela and forced four reporters into exile.

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National security adviser discusses Venezuela, Russia and Cuba relations, and the alleged attacks on U.S. personal in Cuba

White House national security adviser John Bolton talks to el Nuevo Herald's Nora Gámez Torres on Latin American policy at the National Historic Landmark Miami Freedom Tower on Nov. 1, 2018.

File photo of Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro.

Venezuela

Colombia denies it’s plotting with Brazil’s new president to invade Venezuela

Colombia on Tuesday rejected news reports that it would support efforts by Brazil’s president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, to topple Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Colombia

U.S. imposes sanctions on Colombian drug trafficker known as “The Invalid”

The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on Pedro Luis Zuleta Noscué, a drug trafficker with FARC guerrilla ties, accusing him of running labs that produced tons of cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

Colombia

UN refugee chief: Venezuelan exodus “not going to stop” soon

UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi says Venezuela’s migratory crisis will not stop anytime soon. Urges international community to support Colombia, Peru and other neighbors in absorbing the migrants.

Venezuela

They fled Venezuela but wound up in homeless camps and tent cities in Colombia

In South America, cities are straining under one of the largest migratory waves in the region’s history. The United Nations says millions of Venezuelans are now living abroad, many of them going to Colombia.

Venezuela

Colombia says world must act to end Venezuelan ‘dictatorship’

Colombian President Iván Duque called on the world to take decisive action to end the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, saying “the end of the dictatorship, the return of democracy and outright freedom is the only possible path.”

Venezuela

He slipped out of Venezuela in disguise. Now he’s the OAS migration czar.

David Smolansky, an opposition leader and fugitive from Venezuelan justice, is head of the new OAS working group on Venezuelan migration. He thinks Maduro must go.

Venezuela

OAS chief slams ‘immoral’ Venezuela amid migratory crisis

Luis Almagro, head of the Organization of American States, said the immoral “dictatorship” in Venezuela was the prime driver of a migration crisis in the region as a Venezuelan exodus strains other nations.

Colombia

‘My breasts were purple.’ In Colombia, even a dentist can perform plastic surgery

Colombia has become the fourth leading destination for foreigners seeking cosmetic surgeries. But a lack of laws and regulations mean their surgery can wind up in the hands of a general physician or even a dentist.

Venezuela

Over 440,000 undocumented Venezuelans in Colombia to get work and residency papers

More than 440,000 undocumented Venezuelans living in Colombia will receive residency and work papers under a decree signed by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Thursday, who said the measure was a humanitarian necessity for people escaping hunger and disease amid a broad economic and social collapse.

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