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Colombia’s government drastically expanded the region affected by the August 10 earthquake in a second decree declaring an economic emergency. According to the decree, President Abelardo de la Espriella declared the emergency in 15 of the country’s 32 provinces “for a period of thirty (30) calendar days, in order to conjure the crisis and prevent the spread of the disaster’s effects.” “The territorial scope includes all municipalities listed in UNGRD Situatio

The government of Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella gave Prosecutor General Luz Adriana Camargo a white paper with more than 80 complaints over alleged corruption by the previous government. The 135-page “Book of Truth that was presented by De la Espriella, contained “the result of the work carried out under the coordination of Vice President José Manuel Restrepo during the transition weeks between the presidential election and August 7” when he took office. D

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The director of Colombia’s disaster management agency UNGRD said Thursday that at least 273 people died and that 377 were missing from the region that was struck by a 7.4M earthquake on Monday. According to UNGRD director David Tamayo, the earthquake affected a total of 97,515 people. So far, rescue workers and neighbors were able to rescue 348 people from the rubble alive and 3,826 people were injured. The earthquake, which was the strongest in a decade, destroyed 12,563 homes and damaged

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella said he would declare an economic emergency and create a reconstruction fund for homes and small businesses that were destroyed in Monday’s earthquake. In  a press statement, De la Espriella said that the government would initially support victims with temporary relief and will declare an economic emergency to find the funds for reconstruction. Finance Minister Miguel Gomez said the government was not yet considering raising taxes to find

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella asked the US Government for joint military operations “to destroy terrorists and terror networks,” said US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Wednesday. At an event of the so-called Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (ACCC) in Panama, Hegseth said that “Colombia will join the ACCC, becoming the 19th member.” Through the newly inaugurated president, as our president likes to say “President El Tigre,” Colombia ha

The government of President Abelardo de la Espriella has been criticized over its refusal to accept foreign search and rescue workers in the crucial hours after Monday’s earthquake. One of the first to raise the alarm was China’s ambassador to Bogota, Zhu Jingyang, who called on the government on Tuesday to “release the name of the official and his or her designated contact person to coordinate international aid for the earthquake victims.” El Salvador’s President N

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Local and regional authorities have said that at least 227 people were confirmed killed in Monday’s earthquake while search and rescue teams continue to look for survivors. So far, 120 people were confirmed dead in Valle del Cauca where locals said that entire towns in the north of the province were all but destroyed by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the Choco province on Monday. In Cali, the capital of Valle del Cauca, rescue workers continued to look for survivors under the ru

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella declared a national disaster and sent his ministers to the west of Colombia to coordinate rescue operations in response to a 7.4M earthquake. Following an emergency meeting at disaster management agency UNGRD, De la Espriella said he would travel to Pereira, one of the worst hit cities, to further coordinate the government response. Interior Minister Rodrigo Lara would coordinate rescue operations for the rest of the coffee region, the health

An M7.4 earthquake hit western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 110 people and injuring hundreds. The earthquake struck around 7:30 and had its epicenter in San Jose del Palmar, a municipality in the Choco province. In the hour that followed, locals began reporting collapsed buildings in the cities of Cali, Pereira and Manizales, where a tower of the cathedral and a dozen other buildings fully or partially collapsed, according to Mayor Jorge Eduardo Rojas. In a first report on fatalities, R

Th US State Department said it will ask Congress for $1 billion for “deepening our shared and economic partnership” with the government of Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella. The funding boost, which resembles that of the first year of Plan Colombia in 2000, seeks to “support the De la Espriella Administration’s efforts to defeat the vicious narcoterrorist and criminal organizations that threaten US, Colombian, and hemispheric security and economic prosperity.&

President Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in in Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, under extreme security precautions. De la Espriella was sworn in by the president of Congress, Senator Honorio Henriquez of the far-right Democratic Center party in the theater of the private University of Santiago de Cali. The first part of the ceremony was attended by the Spanish King Felipe VI, multiple heads of state from Latin America and more than 60 ambassadors. After being sworn in, De la Esprie

Prosecutors arrested 13 suspects and asked Colombia’s Supreme Court to investigate seven (former) governors over their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of COP3 trillion ($941 million). The arrests and the investigation requests are related to the public-private partnership Sierra Nevada Mixed Fund, which was created by Martin Zuleta (U Party) and his family when he was mayor of La Paz, Cesar, in early 2021. While supposedly serving the interests of La Paz, the Sierra Nevada Mixed Fu

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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro and data analysts presented evidence suggesting that President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella won the election through the mass manipulation of tally sheets. During a two-hour presentation, Petro claimed that almost all tally sheets that had been shared with his political party, the Historic Pact “lacked the Hash security lock,” which is inserted into official PDF documents to guarantee they can’t be changed. The absence of a hash file i

Colombia’s far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella said that he won’t allow his country’s left to “destabilize democracy” through civil disobedience against his US citizenship. In his weekly address to the nation, De la Espriella stressed that after Friday he will be president and “with the force of the constitution and the law” ensure that his power will be upheld. The civil disobedience announced by leftist opposition leader Ivan Cepeda &#82

Colombia’s far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella assumes office on Friday, after elections with a razor-thin margin. He brings with him promises to wield “iron fist” policies against non-state armed groups (NSAGs) and organized criminal organizations in the country. He has also promised to dismantle ongoing peace talks initiated by outgoing leftist President Gustavo Petro, including groups that are currently disarming. De la Espriella made scores of hardline promises on the ca

The coming four years will probably be the toughest yet and I will need your support to keep Colombia’s longest-living news source alive. The Espriella administration will be the third far-right government I have reported on since I started Colombia Reports in 2008. I expect the incoming government to be the worst because it seeks to undo socio-economic policies that pulled 4 million people out of poverty and end peace processes that kept us safe. Independent journalists (and the New York Times)