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Mercury contamination caused by illegal mining in Colombia’s Amazon is threatening the welfare of Indigenous communities who are now seeking legal action against the government. Late last year, a group of affected Indigenous communities presented a lawsuit against the government...

A passenger arrived on January 25 in Colombia’s third largest city with symptoms conforming with those of the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China. The messenger, a male in his 40s, returned from China, passing through Spain & the United States on his way back to Colombia.

Despite only destroying a reported 17,593 hectares last year, officials are aiming to increase that figure to 100,000 hectares in 2017.