Colombia has declared a nationwide health emergency after at least 34 people died of yellow fever, according to official figures. Yellow fever is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. It can be prevented by a vaccine which in most cases provides lifelong protection. The government has urged people to get vaccinated…
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Royal Society of Biology Alessandro Coatti worked for the Royal Society of Biology in London Tributes have been paid to a London-based scientist who formerly worked for the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) after he was found murdered in northern Colombia. Alessandro Coatti’s remains were discovered on the outskirts of Santa…
An Italian fugitive accused of having coordinated the shipment of large cocaine cargoes from Latin America to Europe has been arrested in Colombia. Colombia’s national police chief described Emanuele Gregorini, who is also known as “Dollarino”, as “the head of the Italian mafia Latin America”. He said Gregorini had been tracked down to an apartment…
Less than a week into his presidency, Donald Trump has briefly engaged in his first international tariff dispute. And the target wasn’t China, Mexico or Canada – frequent subjects of his ire – it was Colombia, one of America’s closest allies in South America. Colombia’s offence was refusing to allow two US flights carrying deported…
The possibility of a trade war erupted on Sunday between the United States and Colombia that could make coffee, flowers and raw materials more expensive for Americans, while U.S. corn growers and chemical companies could find billions of dollars in sales at risk. Relations between the two countries quickly deteriorated after the South American country…
Reuters Colombian President Gustavo Petro says migrants are not criminals and should be treated with “dignity” US President Donald Trump has said he will impose 25% tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after its president barred two US military planes carrying deported migrants from landing in the country. Trump said the emergency tariffs “on all goods”…
One of the founders of the Medellin drug cartel has returned to Colombia after serving more than 20 years in jail in the US for drug trafficking. Fabio Ochoa Vasquez, now 67 years old, was deported by the US government and landed in Bogota on Monday a free man. Ochoa was one of the founding…
