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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to visit Colombia amid tensions over mass deportations

By The City Paper Staff - March 26, 2025

In the first high-level visit by a member of U.S. President Donald Trump’s new administration, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will meet with Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Foreign Minister Laura Sarabia on Thursday in Bogotá.

A member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang displays his tattoos inside the Chelatenango prison in El Salvador. Photo: Moisen Saman/Sony World Photography Award.

Bukele to Petro: “What’s your obsession with El Salvador?”

By Richard Emblin - March 10, 2023

The dispute between Colombia’s Gustavo Petro and El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele intensified this week after a series of acerbic Tweets and accusations from corruption to domestic security.

Colombian police are taken hostage by a farming collective in San Vicente del Caguán.

As Colombia’s Petro scoffs Bukele, 79 police kidnapped in Caguán

By The City Paper Staff - March 2, 2023

A violent protest in San Vicente del Caguán has resulted in a Colombian police officer killed and 79 kidnapped. The riot occurred on the grounds of a Chinese oil exploration company.