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Officials are investigating whether the killings were related to drug trafficking, a local armed rebel group, or another factor.

In mid-November, the Banco de la República forecasted inflation to end both 2018 and 2019 at 3.3%.

Duque is down 20 points from the 47% approval rating he garnered in the previous poll toward the end of October.

Trump has railed against the spike in coca cultivation in Colombia, focusing on drug trafficking and the Venezuela crisis while largely ignoring the country's peace process.

This is now the 14th project to receive funding within the 4G program and the first to close financing since President Iván Duque took office in August.

While the full details are yet to emerge, the plan is to offer the exemption to companies that will generate a set minimum number of jobs.

At the U.N., Duque reiterated his commitment to crack down on illicit coca production, strengthen the country’s peace process, and find a solution to the Venezuelan crisis.

“This year marked 70 years since the founding of the OAS in Bogotá. For our government it will be an honor," said Colombian diplomat Alejandro Ordoñez.

The global organization’s Security Council reaffirmed its “full commitment” to the peace process in Colombia for an additional year through September 15, 2019.

The pope and Duque will discuss the state of peace process that the pope publicly supported throughout his trip to Colombia in 2017