Back at the end of June, the two teenagers had gone to the beach on Venezuela’s Caribbean coastline. Winder wanted to take their 10-year-old brother Moissés, but he was grounded. “I kept insisting but my mum just wouldn’t budge,” he says. As they were heading home on the evening of the 24th, earthquakes of magnitude
A 32-year-old woman, who had been trapped under rubble for 36 hours following the 7.4-magnitude quake which shook western Colombia, has been rescued alive. Daniela Largo was pulled from beneath a collapsed building in the city of Pereira after a 10-hour-long rescue operation. Firefighters finally managed to reach her via a tunnel they dug below
Hours after the earthquake hit Pereira, a resident of the Parque Industrial neighborhood, near the city’s airport, told BBC Mundo about the shock being experienced in the area. “It’s impossible to get around the city center. In Bolívar Square (the city’s main square), at least one building collapsed. Furthermore, there are structures where buses and
Military intelligence officers said that Forero led a group known as Frente 28, which is one of the many dissident factions to have sprung forth from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). The Farc, Colombia’s largest left-wing rebel group, signed a peace deal with the government in 2016 but some of its members did
The US has pledged £1bn in assistance to Colombia, after the country’s new right-wing president was sworn in on Friday. Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella used his maiden speech to promise an “all-out war” on what he calls “narco-terrorism”. In a statement hailing a “new era in US-Colombia relations”, the US state department announced
TIS Studios inaugurated Stage 7, a new 18,300-square-foot soundstage at its Bogotá production complex, increasing its capacity to host large-scale international film and television productions in Colombia. Standing 40 feet tall, the installation is described as the largest sound stage in Colombia and one of the largest in Latin America. The launch marks the latest