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After 17 years of litigation, Chiquita Brands International is found liable by a jury in United States Federal Court of financing the far-right paramilitary death squad United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia in the Antioquia and Magdalena Departments of Colombia. [https:--earthrights.org-media_release-colombian-victims-win-historic-verdict-over-chiquita-jury-finds-banana-company-liable-for-financing-death-squads- (EarthRights International)]Right-wing paramilitarism in Colombia
2024-06-10

A former Colombian soldier, Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, pleads guilty to conspiring in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
2023-12-22

Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal retains both the General Classification and the Young Rider Classification in the 2021 edition of the Giro d'Italia.
2021-05-30

The government of Colombia announces the legalization of undocumented Venezuelan migrants currently in the country, making them eligible to receive 10-year residency permits.
2021-02-8

Over 500 Venezuelan migrants block a major toll road in northern Bogotá, Colombia, demanding they be allowed to return home after the coronavirus pandemic caused economic opportunities to dry up.
2020-04-29

A police officer dies and five people are injured in three separate FARC attacks in Colombia.
2018-08-7

Voters in Colombia go to the polls in the first round of a presidential election.
2018-05-27

An Aerosucre Boeing 727-200 Flight 4544, used as a cargo plane, crashes shortly after takeoff in Puerto Carreno's Germán Olano Airport en route to the Colombian capital Bogota killing five people and injuring one.
2016-12-20

Bolivia's aviation authority suspends the operating license of LaMia. Investigation into the crash in Colombia, which killed 71 people, continues.
2016-12-1

Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, is removed from office and banned from re-taking it for fifteen years, due to a failing city cleaning policy promoted by him.
2013-12-9