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BOGOTA, Colombia (CMC) — Colombia will host the “XII Week of Citizen Security and Jus...

BOGOTA, Colombia (CMC) — Colombia will host the “XII Week of Citizen Security and Jus...

BOGOTA, Colombia (CMC) — Colombia will host the “XII Week of Citizen Security and Jus...

Dairo Antonio Usuga, or Otoniel, caught by armed forces after decade evading arrest

Courtesy of Close Authorship This article was originally published on Yale Environment360. It all started about four years ago, when SUVs and pickup trucks drove uninvited onto their lands, remembers Olimpia Palmar, a member of the Indigenous Wayúu peoples, who historically have occupied the La Guajira desert in northern Colombia and Venezuela. "We started seeing these arijunas [Wayuúunaiki for non-native peoples] wearing construction helmets and boots and vests, getting out of the cars, che...

In Colombia, Indigenous Lands Are Ground Zero for a Wind Energy Boom The northernmost tip of South America, home to the Indigenous Wayúu people, is the epicenter of Colombia’s nascent wind energy industry. But Wayúu leaders are concerned that the government and wind companies are not dealing fairly with the inhabitants of this long-neglected land. It all started about four years ago, when SUVs and pickup trucks drove uninvited onto their lands, remembers Olimpia Palmar, a member of the Indi...

Posted on January 15, 2021. The Russian attack should put the Colombian government on alert about the cybersecurity of its institutions. Important news has managed to sneak past Colombia. And it shouldn’t have. The news is that Russia staged a massive cyberattack on more than 250 U.S. government institutions and businesses. Amounting to an unprecedented scale of aggression and, three weeks after it was discovered, still nobody knows the extent of the impact. But it’s very serious. The Treas...