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Amazon drought hits indigenous communities of Leticia and Puerto Nariño

By The City Paper Staff - October 2, 2024

Severe drought in the Amazon is causing critical water shortages, with river levels dropping by 80% across vast sections of the Amazon River. The Colombian port city of Leticia and neighboring indigenous communities are among the worst affected, as vital trade routes from Brazil and Peru have been disrupted.

MAMU: Claudia Andujar and the Yanomami’s struggle for survival

By The City Paper Staff - August 10, 2024

Claudia Andujar’s gripping exhibition on the Yanomami’s fight for survival enters its final month at Bogotá’s MAMU,and through the haunting lens of the photographer, audiences are given a unique insight into the daily life of an endangered indigenous community at the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo) hosts Brazil as Guest Nation

By Richard Emblin - April 13, 2024

Brazil will be honored as Guest Nation at Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo), showcasing its literary greatness and fostering a cultural exchange on topics such as climate change, biodiversity and the Amazon. FILBo opens April 17 at Corferias and runs until May 2.

The infected female Aedes aegypti mosquito is the main disease vector. Its tiny eggs look like dirt stuck to the wall of breeding sites such as vases, plates, cans, packaging, and tires. Muhammad Mahdi Karim/Wikipedia

Brazilian single-dose Dengue vaccine could turn tide against fever

By The Conversation - March 12, 2024

The Brazilian single-dose vaccine breakthrough comes with a major global increase in the dengue disease, which has already registered five million cases in 129 countries this year.

Petro in “complete solidarity” with Lula on Gaza, escalating tensions again with Israel

By Richard Emblin - February 20, 2024

Colombia’s Gustavo Petro has expressed “complete solidarity” with Brazil’s Lula over claims of genocide in Gaza by Israel. Lula was declared “persona non grata” until he retracts his statements.

Colombia’s Petro tells Amazon summit “flying is for rich men”

By Richard Emblin - August 10, 2023

Colombia’s Gustavo Petro completed his 23rd international trip during his first year in office to attend the Amazon summit in Belem.

Opinión. Absurdo: Maduro en UNASUR

By Bernardo Henao Jaramillo - June 5, 2023

Vale anotar que la presencia del dictador Nicolás Maduro en Brasil ocasionó una fuerte protesta en la Cámara de Diputados donde, con sobrada razón, le gritaron “asesino”.

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia meets with Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro during the Brasilia summit. Photo: Presidencia.

Petro and Lula end Venezuela’s isolationism at Brasilia summit

By Richard Emblin - May 31, 2023

After a sixth meeting with Nicolás Maduro in Brasília, Petro has positioned himself as the South American progressive leader who has brokered the Venezuelan leader’s return to the community of nations.

Can the Latin American left learn a lesson from Brasilia?

By Richard Emblin - January 10, 2023

Colombia’s Gustavo Petro was quick to condemn the violence that besieged the Brazilian capital. If only he has been as swift to condemn the violence that crippled his own country during the Paro Nacional.

Petro condemns “fascist coup” against Brazil’s Lula

By Richard Emblin - January 9, 2023

Colombia’s Gustavo Petro joined a chorus of international outrage from across the political spectrum to the violence that beseiged Brasilia after pro-Bolsonaro supporters attacked Congress.

Amazon River boats by Juan Paulo Vargas

Sir Roger Casement’s defense of Colombia’s Putumayo

By Gonzalo Guillen - June 10, 2022

Sir Roger Casement exposed the injustices of the rubber trade in the Amazon before meeting an untimely end in his native Ireland.

Avianca and GOL to form Latin American aviation giant

By Richard Emblin - May 12, 2022

Colombia’s Avianca and Brazilian carrier GOL are set to form a common holding company Abra Group and deal that creates one of South America’s largest airlines.

Latin America accounts for 25% of world’s COVID-19 deaths this week

By The City Paper Staff - May 1, 2021

April ended the worst month for Colombia of the pandemic in numbers of deaths and new cases. WHO concerned hospitals are at breaking-point in Bogotá and Medellín.

South America in dangerous surge of coronavirus cases and deaths

By Richard Emblin - April 7, 2021

Colombia, like the rest of South America, is entering a dangerous phase with coronavirus as daily cases and deaths surge with the “third wave” of contagion.

Colombia suspends flights with Brazil for 30-days over new variant

By The City Paper Staff - January 28, 2021

Colombia will suspend all air travel with Brazil for 30 days to prevent importation of the highly-infectious Brazilian variant.

Colombia and capital Bogotá record highest day increase in COVID-19 cases

By Richard Emblin - January 15, 2021

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.