archiveenero 2019

Juan Guaido, leader of the Venezuelan socialist party Popular Will, has declared himself interim president of the crisis-hit Latin American country. In a move that immediately drew support from US president Donald Trump, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, Mr Guaido is attempting to oust Nicolas Maduro, who was inaugurated for a second six-year term on...

David Attenborough might have urged world leaders at Davos to take urgent action on climate change, but it appears no one was listening. As he spoke, experts predicted up to 1,500 individual private jets will fly to and from airfields serving the Swiss ski resort this week. Political and business leaders...

In a Saturday statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi commiserated with the Colombian government and nation and offered sympathy with the families of victims of the inhumane move. At least 20 people were killed Thursday after a car bomb detonated in the Colombian capital of Bogota. Police said 68...

The Colombian government on Friday blamed leftist ELN rebels for the car bomb that killed 21 people at a Bogota police cadet training academy. Defense Minister Guillermo Botero, speaking from the presidential palace, described the Thursday bombing as "a terrorist attack committed by the ELN." Peace talks with the National...

A car bomb has been detonated at a police academy in Bogota, leaving several people dead and injured, Colombian police reported on Thursday. Colombian Defence Ministry stated on Thursday that eight people died as a result of the car bomb explosion at the General Santander police academy in Colombia's capital. This comes after Bogota's mayor Enrique...

Last weekend revolved around Juan Guaidó’s announcements in the cabildo abierto and the apparent revival of the opposition that followed. There’s a sense of urgency among both the Venezuelan people and the international community for a transition in Venezuela. A feeling reconfirmed last Saturday after a five-hour blackout killed at leasttwo patients at...

Colombian state-run oil company Ecopetrol said on Wednesday there were two bomb attacks overnight on the Cano Limon pipeline in western Antioquia province, four days after a similar attack halted pumping. The latest bomb attacks occurred in the rural areas of La Pesquera and Las Bancas. Last year, there were...

Another Colombian rights activist was gunned down in her home for helping Afro-Colombian victims in the country’s long civil conflict. Mother of four Maritza Quiroz Leiva was gunned down by armed hitmen in her rural home in San Isidro in Colombia’s Caribbean region. Quiroz was an Afro-Colombian representative on the Santa...

In the southwest of Colombia, one community leader or human rights advocate is killed every three days. They're being targeted by armed groups fighting for control of land they use to cultivate drugs and mine gold illegally. The rate of killings has increased since the government signed a peace deal with FARC...

Amerisur Resources PLC (LON:AMER) saw its shares jump on Wednesday after it provided good news for investors from Colombia where its latest well flowed at 4,530 barrels a day during a short-term test. The oil brought to the surface was a light crude. At almost 36 degrees API it wasn’t...