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The indigenous takeover of Semana's lobby stirred up wide-ranging emotions about the publication and the free press at large in Colombia.

Ricardo Díaz, formerly of the Ministry of Defense, has said that people tied to the administration offered him $179,000 USD to facilitate the purchase of three Qatari helicopters.

Neo-Marxist Petro blames the scandal on the "owners of capital," but the protagonists were his own chief of staff & campaign manager.

The Gilinski-backed slate voted without a sufficient quorum, ruled the court.

The powerful Colombian banker and real estate developer Jaime Gilinski (Publicaciones Semana, Banco GNB Sudameris, Lulo Bank, Servibanca, etc.), the second richest person in the country, is making his move in the hope of undoing the castling of the Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño...

IHC also appears to be allied with Gilinski in his battle for control of Medellín's GEA

The amount of powdered cocaine extracted from a single hectare of coca increased by more than one kilogram in just a year. Potential cocaine output jumped from 6.7 kilograms per hectare in 2019 to 7.9 kilograms in 2020, according to the UNODC report. Three factors are possibly...

Only 8 months into his term as mayor of Medellín, tomato-throwing Daniel Quintero has managed to unite Paisas from labor unions to corporate giants against him.Multiple boards of directors have resigned, and Fitch has downgraded the city-owned utility's credit, citing 'governance...

Luis Fernando Rico, former general manager of another Colombian utility giant, Isagen along with the general manager of Colombian weekly newsmagazine Semana both rejected Quintero’s appointments, joining Claro Colombia CEO Juan Carlos Archila and Grupo Santo Domingo’s Alberto...

According to an Insight Crime report, continued threats by criminal groups have led park rangers in Colombia’s protected areas of the Amazon rainforest to abandon their posts, leaving these territories to fall under the control of gangs.