Claudia López got a green light from the government to start COVID vaccinations as of February 20. The initial 7,700 doses are destined to frontline medical workers.
Air Canada included Colombia to 17 routes that will be suspended until April 30 given low passenger demand after the federal government introduced strict COVID restrictions.
Cuba has warned the Colombia Government that a terror attack by ELN’s Eastern War Front against Bogotá could happen within days.
The recent downturn in COVID-19 cases is encouraging news for a country with more than 2.1 million total cases. Recoveries from the virus also surpassed 2 million.
The government of President Iván Duque will grant Protective Status to almost 1 million Venezuelan migrants and important “humanitarian gesture” other nations should follow.
Bogotanos are increasingly pessimistic about crime and insecurity on city streets reveals the most recent survey by the Chamber of Commerce.
Colombia has secured 61 million coronavirus vaccines to immunize 70% of the population in 2021. The mass vaccinations begin on February 20.
In a landmark indictment by JEP, former FARC must either recognize their role in kidnapping for face up to 20-years in prison.
Bogotá’s Government Secretary Luis Ernesto Gómez announced revised measures for the capital as ICU occupancy stabilizes and infection rates begin to lower to December levels.
During their recent Assembly FARC’s representatives renamed their party Comunes to break with the past references of conflict as the country faces spiraling violence from dissidents.
President Iván Duque has decreed 3 days of national mourning for the death of Carlos Holmes Trujillo and 51,747 victims of the pandemic.
Carlos Holmes Trujillo, Colombia’s Defense Minister, has died from coronavirus after a two-week battle with the disease. Holmes Trujillo was a close friend of President Iván Duque.
As the world registers more than 2 million deaths from COVID-19, total cases in Colombia topped 2 million, the second-highest for a South American nation.
Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo remains hospitalized with viral pneumonia due to COVID-19 and on respiratory support claims the government in an official statement.
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.
Humid air currents sweeping across the Amazon are dumping snow across the highlands of Boyacá and glaciers of the region’s largest national park PNN El Cocuy.