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"We need everyone's commitment, understanding that this is a situation that has hit rock bottom," said Medellín Mayor Federico Gutierrez.

Sprößer, whose visa would have expired after 90 days, said she would not be returning to Germany, but planned to give classes on politics and economics to protesters. “I have never felt very German, I have always liked Latin America,” she told El Tiempo. Sprößer is now banned...

Starting today, all of Antioquia, including Medellín is under a 5pm-5am daily COVID-19 curfew and alcohol ban. Hospital intensive care wards have reached 95% capacity in some parts of the department. Normally this is the busiest travel and leisure week of the year in Colombia.

For the first time in modern history, a former Colombian president has been detained and must face criminal charges. Alvaro Uribe & his lawyer are charged with witness tampering and bribery in an attempt to falsely accuse an opposition senator.

Teleperformance has announced an urgent need for 4,000 English, Portuguese and French bilingual agents in Colombia to work from home, despite the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque announced the order to extend Colombia’s national preventive isolation order an additional two weeks, at least until May 11.

Last night, Colombian President Ivan Duque announced that despite success in keeping Coronavirus infections under 1,600 in the country of 47 million, the government will extend the “national quarantine” until April 27. The initial term of the curfew was set to expire on April 13....

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque Márquez announced late last night that even though municipal curfews were due to expire Tuesday morning, the national government has declared a national 24 hour curfew beginning Tuesday at midnight until midnight, April 13 in order to retard the...

"Now its worse than before." Finance Colombia was able to communicate briefly with a career soldier on the front lines in the troubled region of Tumaco to understand the situation from the point of view of the soldier on the ground.