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.
The Colombian capital will be placed under night curfews as of Tuesday and strict lockdown for the final weekend of January announced Mayor Claudia López.
The Colombian government confirmed Monday that Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo is in intensive care with coronavirus at Bogotá’s Military Hospital.
A dramatic surge in new coronavirus infection across Bogotá has placed the city’s hospital system in Red Alert. Quarantines and curfews in effect starting Thursday, January 7.
Three Bogotá localities have returned to strict lockdowns as cases in the capital surge and ICU occupancy reached 85%.
The Latin America category of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants includes four Colombian restaurants and five community-based venues.
The 2020 EF Language Index has placed Colombia among the worst performing nations in South America with English Proficiency and trend that has continued for several years.