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February 19, 2021 The power of Colombia’s president depends on his ability to manage the sometimes opposing interests of those who really control the country, like the so-called clans. While formally a democracy, all presidents of the 21st century have had no choice but to balance serving the public interest with private and even criminal interests. This unstable balance of power is partly due to the country’s political history and culture, and partly a consequence of the country’s armed conflict. The origins Bogota‘s inability to exercise political power on a national level since the...

What to take before a country is kidnapped By Thu Feb 18 2021 In the mid-1990s, Colombia somehow gained the unwholesome reputation of being the kidnap capital of the world. That is aside from its reputation as the cocaine epicentre of the globe. It got so bad that when visitors knocked on your gate, you fear that they had come for you. That was exactly what happened to fashionista, Amalia de Hazbun, also known as ‘The Golden Needle of Colombia’ when someone knocked on her gate sometime in the mid-‘90s. I met her years later, after that knock on her gate. She was sitting in her posh hous...

Bogotá got an early start inoculating medical workers with the first batch of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. China's Sinovac to deliver 192,000 doses over the weekend.

The government is seeking to award supervisory and investment contracts for a pioneering battery storage system and related transmission infrastructure in Barranquilla.

Jailed suspect in plot to overthrow Venezuela's Maduro blames Colombia, Guaidó The Associated Press © Provided by NBC News From a windowless cell in a maximum-security prison in Colombia, Yacsy Álvarez awaits trial on charges she helped organize an attempted armed invasion to overthrow the government in neighboring Venezuela. Álvarez was a translator and business partner of Jordan Goudreau, the former American Green Beret whose ill-fated plan to depose Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro with a ragtag army he allegedly helped train in the jungles of Colombia ended in disaster l...