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Panama City (AFP) - The frontrunner in Panama's presidential election vowed Tuesday to block US-bound migrants from crossing the lawless jungle straddling his country's border with Colombia and to begin deportations. Last year, more than half a million people braved the so-called Darien Gap, where they faced perilous river crossings and violent criminal gangs that extort, kidnap and abuse them. "We're going to close the Darien and we're going to repatriate all these people," Jose Raul Mulino told reporters during a visit to a working class suburb of the capital, without saying exactly how he w...
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Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) (AFP) - US anti-drug policies have caused a "genocide" of Latin Americans, Colombia's Gustavo Petro alleged Friday at a meeting of regional leaders on the Caribbean island of St Vincent and the Grenadines. "We have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century," the Colombian president told the annual summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). He blamed the United States for basing its drug strategy on "repression" and not on "prevention and public health." "The result could not be more d...
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On board the ARC Simon Bolivar (Antártida) (AFP) - In freezing Antarctic waters, amid bobbing chunks of floating ice, the hums, pitches and echoes of life in the deep are helping scientists understand the behavior and movements of marine mammals. "There are species which make impressive sounds, literally like Star Wars, they sound like spaceships," said Colombian scientist Andrea Bonilla, who is carrying out research with underwater microphones off Antarctica's coast. The biologist from Cornell University in New York submerges a hydrophone covered in titanium and attached to a buoy, into the f...
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Medellín (Colombia) (AFP) - All Israeli expat Omer Bloch knows for sure about his Tinder date in the Colombian city of Medellin is that she was "beautiful" -- and used a powerful drug to knock him out and rob him. A recent spate of what the US Embassy termed "suspicious" deaths of eight American men in Medellin has cast a spotlight on the dangers foreigners face using dating apps in the city. "I matched with a girl on Tinder. Just another girl, I thought. Just another date," recalls the 28-year-old businessman of his 2021 encounter. After their dinner, he remembers they returned to his house ...
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Miami (AFP) - A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty Friday in a US federal court to conspiracy to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was shot dead in 2021 in Port-au-Prince. Mario Antonio Palacios, 45, pleaded guilty in a Miami federal court after entering into a cooperation agreement with prosecutors. Until agreeing to a plea deal, he had for months denied having had any role in the assassination of the former president. On July 7, 2021, Moise was shot and killed in his private residence at the age of 53 by a commando of more than 20 people, most of them Colombian mercena...
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Paris (AFP) - After a bitter split from her footballer ex Gerard Pique, Colombian superstar Shakira is back with a vengeance. First she released a diss track that nearly broke YouTube and on Monday she struck a deal with Spanish authorities to avoid the embarrassment of a tax fraud trial related to her years in Barcelona with Pique. The legal woes of the woman dubbed the queen of Latin music since her 2005 smash hit "Hips Don't Lie" are not yet at an end, with a second Spanish investigation into alleged tax evasion still hanging over her. But the trial that had been due to start on Monday was ...
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Mexico City (AFP) - When a dozen Latin American presidents and foreign ministers meet on Sunday in Mexico, they'll face a huge task: finding a solution to migration flows roiling two continents as people make their way to the United States. This year alone, 1.7 million migrants arrived at the Mexican-US border. Immigration is becoming a huge political issue in both nations, which each have presidential elections next year. September alone saw 60,000 migrants arrive in Mexico from Venezuela, along with 35,000 Guatemalans and 27,000 Hondurans, according to the Mexican government. "It is very dif...
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Acandi (Colombia) (AFP) - At the start of the perilous jungle trek through the Darien Gap to Panama, uniformed workers on the Colombian side hand out colored wristbands to migrants, like bouncers at a nightclub, to indicate what "services" they have paid for. The minimum of $170 gets you a guide for the treacherous journey from South America to Central America, as well as medical care and toilet access. If you can't afford that, your wristband indicates you must wait until you have the money -- or manage to negotiate a group discount -- to move on from the camp set up by a self-styled "commun...
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Bogotá (AFP) - President Gustavo Petro announced Wednesday that he wants to renegotiate a free trade accord that Colombia has with the United States, the main destination for its exports. In a meeting with coffee growers, Colombia's first leftist president said that the treaty in effect for 11 years bars Colombia from growing local strains of corn, instead obligating it to plant only strains produced in the US and Canada. "I want to announce publicly that the renegotiation is starting," Petro said, drawing a standing ovation at the meeting in the southern town of Pitalito. He gave no details. ...
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New York (AFP) - Dairo Antonio Usuga, one of Colombia's most notorious drug lords, was sentenced to 45 years in prison Tuesday by a US federal judge. Usuga, 51, who pleaded guilty to cocaine smuggling charges earlier this year, was the leader of Colombia's largest narco-trafficking gang, the Clan del Golfo, or Gulf Clan. Known as "Otoniel," Usuga was extradited to the United States from Colombia last year. He pleaded guilty in January to running a criminal enterprise, engaging in a maritime narcotics conspiracy and engaging in a narcotics importation conspiracy. US District Court Judge Dora Ir...
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