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Reports: Italian ex-premier, business executives investigated over Colombia deal for ships, planes
ROME (AP) — Police on Tuesday searched the offices and homes of a former Italian premier and several leading business executives in an investigation of alleged corruption involving the sale of military planes, ships and submarines to Colombia, Italian state television reported. ...
Guatemala's presidential hopefuls channel heavy-handed tactics of El Salvador's leader
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Candidates to be Guatemala’s next president are taking a cue from the leader of neighboring El Salvador and promising their voters they will build mega-prisons and hammer criminal gangs into submission. The formula of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has...
Recordings shake confidence in Colombia's leftist government, jeopardize reforms
BOGOTA (AP) — A corruption scandal that has shaken Colombia’s first leftist government and undermined its ability to carry out ambitious reforms grew on Monday, following the release of several voice messages featuring the nation’s former ambassador to Venezuela. In the audios,...
EXPLAINER: Panama launches operation against smugglers in Darien Gap
NICANOR, Panama (AP) — Panama unveiled a new effort to control illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap that spans its eastern border with Colombia on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have risked the dangerous trek through the jungle in recent years and the...
Panama launches operation in Darien jungle targeting organized crime and migrant smugglers
NICANOR, Panama (AP) — Panama launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia on Friday to combat criminal gangs and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap. Security officials said the “Shield” campaign is part...
New footprints revive hope in Colombia of finding four children missing in jungle
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The discovery in recent days of small footprints in a southern jungle-covered part of Colombia has rekindled hope of finding alive four children who survived a small plane crash and went missing a month ago. Searchers found footprints Tuesday about 2 miles (...
Colombia suspends cease-fire with holdout rebel group accused of killing 4
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government said Monday it is suspending a cease-fire with rebels accused of recently killing four Indigenous people — at least three of them minors — who tried to avoid forced recruitment in the south of the country. President Gustavo...
Search for 4 kids missing after deadly Amazon plane crash leaves Colombia on edge
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Colombians were on edge Friday as authorities searched for four Indigenous children who were on a small plane that crashed in the Amazon jungle this month but have not been found. The three adults aboard died. The crash happened in the early...
Colombian rebel leader says peace talks are 'on pause'
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian rebel leader Pablo Beltran said on Monday that peace talks between his National Liberation Army and the government have been put “on pause” due to remarks made last week by President Gustavo Petro. Petro questioned whether members of the rebel...
Migrants crossing dense Darien jungle at Colombia-Panama border find increasingly organized route
ACANDI, Colombia (AP) — Migrants who have hiked into the dense Darien jungle covering the Colombia-Panama border while the U.S. government moved to lift pandemic-related asylum restrictions have found an increasingly organized migration route. The majority who spoke with The...
