Unseasonal heavy rains and severe flooding across northern Colombia have created a full-blown humanitarian crisis, displacing hundreds of thousands, destroying homes and farmland, and pushing local infrastructure and health systems to breaking point. The disaster has hit hardest in the department of Córdoba, where officials say 156,000 people have been affected and 80% of the […]
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Tropical storms batter Colombia’s Caribbean coast, flooding tens of thousands of homes
Powerful storm surges and weeks of unusually intense rainfall have triggered widespread flooding across Colombia’s Caribbean coast, affecting more than 50,000 families, damaging homes and infrastructure, and placing hundreds of thousands of livestock at risk, authorities said. The floods have hit the Magdalena River basin and large swathes of northern Colombia, forcing beach closures in […]
Colombia’s Ministry of Culture faces backlash over 500th anniversary of Santa Marta’s founding
Colombia’s Ministry of Culture faces a backlash after downplaying Santa Marta’s 500th anniversary. Local leaders, including the mayor and the Academy of History of Magdalena, criticized Minister Juan David Correa for dismissing the event’s national significance.
For Colombia, one hundred hippos is one too many
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.
The last “Animeros” of Colombia’s Magdalena
During November, towns across Colombia’s Magdalena Medio call on an ‘animero’ to grant peace to the ‘lost souls’ of the disappeared.