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On top of the environmental and health risks, Ecopetrol said that 617 wells are out of commission and oil output is down by more than 20,000 barrels per day.

Today's blockades in Santander have led to the loss of oil production while demonstrations in Meta earlier this week became violent.

A union leader in Barranquilla said the aim is to "defeat the informality and illegality that are killing the taxi union."

From January through the end of April, 357 homicides occurred in the capital — 39 fewer than the 396 reported during the same period in 2016.

The oil spill has threatened a nearby stream that feeds into an aqueduct relied upon by some 3,500 locals in Guamalito.

The prolonged shutdown has cost Colombia some 893,000 barrels of production, according to Ecopetrol.

Aerocivil is investigating how a suitcase containing cocaine — that the passenger says did not belong to him — came to be found on an Interjet aircraft.

A large explosion in the Macarena neighborhood where protests against bullfighting have been taking place for weeks reportedly killed one police officer and wounded dozens more people in the area.

Santos campaign manager Roberto Prieto denied the claims, saying that "never have I even shared a coffee" with the man who allegedly took the bribe.

"There is still a long way to go," says Transparency International.