Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Colombia’s Defense Minister, has died from coronavirus after a two-week battle with the disease. Holmes Trujillo was a close friend of President Iván Duque.
The Colombian violinist and maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada takes over the Vienna Symphony after tenures at the Houston Symphony and Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Controversy is raging over how to curb the exponential growth in Colombia’s exotic hippo population that began with four creatures imported by Pablo Escobar.
Humid air currents sweeping across the Amazon are dumping snow across the highlands of Boyacá and glaciers of the region’s largest national park PNN El Cocuy.
As the world reached the grim milestone of 2 million COVID-19 deaths, both Colombia and its capital Bogotá registered record single-day increases in new infections.
Colombian immigration officials detained three U.S citizens for attempting to leave Cartagena with falsified PCR tests. Overland borders remain closed until March 1.
President Duque has not ruled out a return to a nationwide quarantine should citizens be indisciplined with obligatory coronavirus measures.
Gonzalo Cardona is credited for having saved the rare Yellow-eared Parrot from extinction and species whose survival depends on the wax palm.
A variant of coronavirus unique to Colombia has been identified by the INS and comes as the government rolled out the national vaccination program.
A dramatic surge in new coronavirus infection across Bogotá has placed the city’s hospital system in Red Alert. Quarantines and curfews in effect starting Thursday, January 7.
Three Bogotá localities have returned to strict lockdowns as cases in the capital surge and ICU occupancy reached 85%.
After a lull in coronavirus cases, the pre-Christmas shopping season has resulted in a surge in new infections and ICU occupancy reaching Red Alert levels.
The Latin America category of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants includes four Colombian restaurants and five community-based venues.
Colombia joins a host of nations scrambling to secure enough doses of the Pfizer BioNTech anti-coronavirus vaccine after the UK became the first nation to start vaccination.
The New York bankruptcy court has approved Avianca’s US$2 Billion refinancing plan to leave Chapter 11 next year. The airline has also announced a return to more international routes.
FARC’s former top commander “Timochenko” has accepted the group’s responsibility in two attacks against Liberal politician Vargas Lleras.