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The former mayor of Bogotá wants to ban new fossil fuel projects on day one.

Campaigning in Colombia began Jan. 15 for congressional elections on March 13, and for first-round voting for a new president on May 29. Gustavo Petro, leader of the progressive Humane Colombia movement, will likely be the Historical Pact coalition’s presidential candidate.

Normally a response to cruel or oppressive governments, riots have taken place throughout much of human history. Although they're usually much less

A Colombian lesson from history: the super league battle is not over Jonathan Wilson 9 April 1948, Bogotá, Colombia. Before the 2pm meeting he had scheduled with a young Cuban lawyer called Fidel Castro, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, leader of the Liberal Party, decided to go for lunch at the Hotel Continental, five minutes’ walk from his office on Carrera Séptima. He never got to the restaurant. An assassin walked up to him, shot him four times and, five minutes before he had been due to meet Castro, Gaitán was pronounced dead in a local hospital. Violence was inevitable. The ...

Creative 131 Add to collection Leading beverage Pony Malta and MullenLowe SSP3 has brought schools to the one place that is still open as many children across Colombia continue to lose access to education The pandemic and its subsequent lockdowns have brought a myriad of changes to people in every corner of the world. In Colombia, the shift to online learning has seen more than 200,000 students drop out of school as they have limited access to technology.  With many schools still closed due to the pandemic, Pony Malta, one of the leading beverages among teens in Colombia, found a way to mak...