4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (883+ words) One month after Colombia’s devastating earthquake, survivors face ruined homes, interrupted schooling and uncertain reconstruction funding. President Abelardo de la Espriella promises transformation, but the disaster is exposing older fractures in a country where geography and inequality shape who recovers....

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (833+ words) Thirteen years after fleeing guerrilla recruitment, 35 Wounaan families near Buenaventura have lost their only school to Colombia’s August earthquake. With damaged sanitation, suspended classes and armed groups nearby, protecting their children now means rebuilding far more than a classroom. Juancito…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (797+ words) One month into office, Colombia’s Abelardo de la Espriella has paired earthquake relief with military offensives and confrontations with judges. Behind the forceful imagery lies a harder test: rebuilding devastated communities without treating civilian protection as an obstacle to strength....

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (754+ words) President Abelardo de la Espriella has closed three negotiating tables inherited from Gustavo Petro. The case rests on armed expansion, confinement, and broken ceasefires; its risks depend on what replaces dialogue and how Colombia treats those already disarmed in practice....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (928+ words) Cuba’s electricity crisis is now arriving through Havana’s faucets. As prolonged blackouts disable pumps and aging pipes fail, nearly two million residents face an emergency that exposes how energy scarcity, underinvestment, and geopolitical pressure converge inside a glass of water....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (898+ words) Colombia’s armed groups are turning TikTok and Facebook feeds into recruitment corridors, using coded posts and recommendation algorithms to find vulnerable children. Human Rights Watch says platforms remove flagged material, yet their systems keep steering users toward more recruiters online....

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (860+ words) Indigenous nations across the Amazon have issued more than another warning. Their new Pan-Amazon mandate demands self-government, secure territories, free cross-border movement, and an end to extraction, reframing forest protection as a struggle over power, sovereignty, and collective survival itself....

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (976+ words) Six people remain missing after torrential rains flooded Caracas and neighboring states, turning rivers into traps, burying homes in mud and renewing a Venezuelan question: when the same streets drown each year, where does natural disaster end and neglect begin?...