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  • Cali

    A tale of two buildings: how quake rescue efforts differed in Colombia and Venezuela

    At a flattened apartment block known as Los Cocos in northern Venezuela, civilians toiled with little support to pull the living and the dead from the rubble. In neighboring Colombia, when residential towers in Cali collapsed, officials poured in to help. Reported with Sarah Morland.

  • Cali

    Hundreds still missing in Colombia as desperation grips earthquake rescue effort

    Hopes of finding more survivors of the ​powerful earthquake that rocked Colombia early this week were fading on Thursday as rescue workers narrowed their searches, while families in the worst-hit areas waited for ‌news of missing relatives. Reported with Nelson Bocanegra.

  • Bogotá

    De La Espriella to take office as Colombia president on pledges of security crackdown

    President Abelardo De La Espriella was sworn in on Friday, using his inaugural speech to pledge a vigorous fight against drug trafficking.

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  • Caracas

    Venezuela’s Rodriguez defends earthquake response after days of criticism

    Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday rejected allegations that her government reacted too slowly to destruction caused by two earthquakes which killed more than 2,000 people, after days of widespread criticism of the official response. Reported with Mayela Armas and Alberto Fajardo.

  • La Guaira

    After Venezuela quakes, citizens lead rescues amid military theft accusations

    Most of the time, Alexander Delgado teaches physical education at a school in the central Venezuelan state of Aragua. But for the past week, he's been running a rescue crew staffed by a rotating cast of neighbors and out-of-state volunteers tunneling into the rubble of a public housing ​development to search for survivors and victims of back-to-back earthquakes. Reported with Sarah Kinosian and Cassandra Garrison.

  • La Guaira

    Between silence and shouts, rescuers dig for Venezuela twin quake survivors

    More than 100 people stood silently on Tuesday in the road alongside what used to be the Los Cocos public housing complex in Venezuela's La Guaira state. For 10 ​minutes, interrupted only by the occasional cellphone ring or shout from a rescuer, people strained their ears for any sound of survivors. Reported with Leonardo Fernandez Viloria.

  • InterviewCaracas

    Venezuela’s attorney general hopes amnesty law will lead to a ‘pacified’ country

    Venezuela's attorney general Tarek Saab said he hopes an amnesty law being considered by the National Assembly legislature will ensure a "100% pacified" country where the crimes included in the bill are never repeated, as he insisted that those in prison are not political detainees. Reported with Vivian Sequera.

  • InvestigationBogotá

    How Venezuela’s Nobel Prize winner built a high-stakes alliance with Trump

    Reuters conversations with more than 50 sources, including former and current U.S. officials, members of the Venezuelan opposition and informants to U.S. security agencies, provide new details about efforts by members of Maria Corina Machado’s team to help the Trump administration build the case for an aggressive stance against the Venezuelan government. Reported with Sarah Kinosian.

  • InterviewCaracas

    Venezuela has no political prisoners, election should be peaceful, AG says

    Venezuela does not prosecute people for their political opinions and holds no political prisoners, Attorney General Tarek Saab said ahead of presidential elections he says should be peaceful. Campaigning for the presidential vote has been marked by arrests of people connected to the opposition, accusations of conspiracy and warnings about possible fraud. Reported with Vivian Sequera.

  • Quito

    Assassinated Ecuador candidate Villavicencio mourned by family, public

    Assassinated Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was honored on Friday at a funeral mass and public memorial in Quito, as a legislative candidate reported an armed attack during which she was lightly injured. Reported with Alexandra Valencia.

  • Bogotá

    Former rebel Petro takes office in Colombia promising peace and equality

    Gustavo Petro on Sunday became Colombia's first leftist president, pledging to unite the polarized country in the fight against inequality and climate change and achieve peace with leftist rebels and crime gangs. Reported with Nelson Bocanegra and Luis Jaime Acosta.

  • Buriticá

    Gold diggers: illegal mining near Colombian town hits Zijin output

    When China's Zijin Mining paid $1 billion to buy an extensive gold mine in the Colombian Andes in late 2019, security risks were a top concern, despite an operation by the military which had beat back illegal miners. The company's pre-deal jitters were warranted: illegal extraction by wildcat miners in tunnels either within or adjoining its concession has shot up since the operation's end.

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  • The New York TimesBogotá

    Colombia peace deal is defeated, leaving a nation in shock

    A Colombian peace deal that the president and the country’s largest rebel group had signed just days before was defeated in a referendum on Sunday, leaving the fate of a 52-year war suddenly uncertain. Reported with Nicholas Casey.

  • ViceBogotá

    How US-style abortion protests are now threatening women's health in Colombia

    Estefania kept herself calm, chatting to the sympathetic nurse about her three-year-old son and the long bus ride to the clinic, until the doctor inserted the forceps. They made her gasp in pain, her tensed hand springing from where the nurse had placed it on her chest, clutching at the surgical gown wrapped around her waist.

  • The Washington PostLa Esperanza

    An end to Colombia's war seems close, except in rebel territory

    Maybe someday, if the truce holds, the covered soccer pitch in this mountain town will become something of a memorial, the precise hilltop spot where ­Colombian rebels launched their last major attack in a ­half-century of civil war. For now, it's Hugo Rendón's job to make the world forget. Reported with Joshua Partlow.

  • The Washington PostMuzo

    The dangerous search for emeralds in Colombia

    The chopper touched down on the hillside helipad and Charles Burgess, a cigar-chomping former U.S. government employee, stepped out to survey the full sweep of his Andean domain. Reported with Joshua Partlow.