Colombian President Gustavo Petro sparked a diplomatic crisis with the U.S. by rejecting deportee flights, prompting retaliatory tariffs and visa sanctions from President Trump. Petro ultimately relented, agreeing to U.S. demands to resume deportations under strict American conditions.
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Bogotá’s El Dorado Airport faces migrant crisis, African minors abandoned
Bogotá’s El Dorado Airport is at the epicenter of a growing humanitarian crisis after the abandonment of two African minors. As health and sanitation concerns escalate among the majority of stranded African passengers, a daily influx of some 200 migrants, aiming to reach the United States via Central America, has authorities on alert.
A trail of despair in the Darien Gap
Some 16,000 Haitians are stranded in towns along Colombia’s Urabá coast. The humanitarian crisis is spilling into one of the world’s most dense rainforests, the Darien Gap.
Colombia legalizes status of 900,000 Venezuelan migrants
The government of President Iván Duque will grant Protective Status to almost 1 million Venezuelan migrants and important “humanitarian gesture” other nations should follow.
Colombia estimates some 200,000 Venezuelans to return despite pandemic
Many Venezuelans are willing to return to Colombia despite high numbers of coronavirus cases given the broken state of their country’s healthcare system.
Migración Colombia reveals extent of Venezuelan migration in the country
As humanitarian aid stockpiles along the Venezuelan border, the flow of migrants continues with new figures released by Migración Colombia.
Editorial: The final word for the Latin American left
As migrants flee abject poverty and crime across the region, Venezuela’s Maduro can use Trump’s anti-Latino rhetoric to give the left in Latin America a voice with the electorate.
Colombia’s Duque reiterates “open arms” to Venezuelan migrants during Paris visit
President Iván Duque outlined major policy decisions from coca eradication to humanitarian assistance for Venezuelan migrants during three-day visit to the French capital.