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Colombia's presidential office manipulates video of President Petro at UN to hype applause
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Colombian government manipulated a video to alter the applause received by President Gustavo Petro during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The Associated Press reviewed the video and was able to verify that it was altered. The...
After a lull, asylum-seekers adapt to US immigration changes and again overwhelm border agents
JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of high-voltage power lines, joining others from Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere in a desert campsite with shelters made...
Colombia announces cease-fire with a group that split off from the FARC rebels
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s government and one of the nation's last remaining rebel groups announced Tuesday that they will start peace talks next month, and enter a 10-month cease-fire that is expected to decrease violence against civilians. The agreement between the...
Colombia's president has a plan for 'total peace.' But militias aren't putting down their guns yet
BUENAVENTURA, Colombia (AP) — Officers wade through rows of abandoned wooden homes teetering above a mangrove-cloaked river – one of the key channels used by gangs to move drugs and weapons through this long-neglected swath of Colombia’s Pacific coast. Each step for them is a...
President Gustavo Petro's plan for 'total peace' in Colombia: Takeaways from AP's report
BUENAVENTURA, Colombia (AP) — Across Colombia, decades of war between leftist guerrillas, rightwing paramilitaries, trafficking groups and the government have left more than 9.5 million people – nearly 20% of the population – as victims of forced displacement, homicide, sexual violence and...
Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, known for his inflated forms, has died at age 91
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Renowned Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose depictions of people and objects in plump, exaggerated forms became emblems of Colombian art around the world, has died. He was 91. Lina Botero told the Colombian radio station Caracol that her...
Mexico on track to break asylum application record
TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico is on track to receive more asylum applications this year than ever before as the flow of migrants threatens to overwhelm governments of several Latin American countries along the migratory route. Andrés Ramírez Silva, the director of Mexico’s...
AP PHOTOS: Humpback whales draw thousands of visitors to a small port on Colombia’s Pacific coast
BAHIA SOLANO, Colombia (AP) — Every summer, thousands of tourists descend on the Colombian town of Bahia Solano to experience the thrill of watching humpback whales as they migrate from the frigid waters of the southern Pacific to Colombia’s warm waters. The town lies on a remote...
UN says Colombia's coca crop at all-time high as officials promote new drug policies
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Coca cultivation reached an all-time high in Colombia last year, the U.N. said, as the administration of President Gustavo Petro struggles to reduce poverty in remote areas and contain armed groups that are profiting from the cocaine trade. The new findings...
Panama to increase deportations in face of record migration through the Darien Gap
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama will increase infrastructure in the jungle area along its shared border with Colombia known as the Darien Gap — as well as ramp up deportations — to contain a record-breaking flow of migrants passing through there this year, Panama's immigration chief said Friday. ...
