With the spike in new coronavirus cases affecting Italy and warning by WHO of a “potential pandemic,” Colombia has raised the level of alert from low to moderate.
The Colombian Air Force is heading to Wuhan to repatriate 14 nationals and 3 foreigners from the quarantined Chinese city.
The art district of San Felipe is hosting this Saturday the 6th edition of its Open San Felipe with 130 exhibition spaces participating. The event is free to the public.
Hundreds of trucks are blocking the main entry points of Bogotá after Mayor Claudia López enacted a decree that restricts the mobility of heavy transport vehicles 20 years or older.
Colombian authorities are enacting tough measures to protect public health as the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide.
Days before the start of the ELN’s Armed Strike, Medellín Mayor Daniel Quintero authorizes security forces to enter universities if protesters handle explosives.
The ELN guerrilla has announced a 72-hour Armed Strike taking effect Thursday, February 14. The “Paro Armado” warns civilians to avoid all road, air and river transport.
The popular beach of Playa Blanca on the peninsula of Barú has reopened to tourists with strict measures announced to ensure public safety with watersports.
Lack of rainfall and extreme temperatures in the Sumapaz National Park have caused three wildfires to blaze out of control. Bogotá’s fire department is on the scene.
Despite millions of Bogotanos using eco-friendly transport during No Car Day, the Mayoralty decreed a yellow alert for bad air quality.
Millions of Bogotá residents will take to the streets with alternative transport on February 6 for the first No Car Day of 2020.
The U.S Army’s 82nd Airborne is exchanging strategic and tactical expertise with Colombian paratroopers as part of a six-day joint military operation.
Colombia’s high court ruled against granting “Chucho,” an endangered Andean bear, release from the Barranquilla Zoo citing Habeas Corpus is only a human right.
Despite large mobilizations of peaceful protestors during the Paro Nacional, President Iván Duque and Bogotá Mayor Claudia López have called for swift justice for vandals.
Flash mobs continue to battle Anti-Riot Squads in several localities of Bogotá during the first day of the Paro Nacional in 2020. Mayoralty claims “protocols” are being enforced.
Venezuelan leader Juan Guaidó referred to Gustavo Petro, the socialist Senator and former Mayor of Bogotá, as an “accomplice of the Maduro dictatorship.”