In a Colombian cocaine hub, a fragile peace falls apart
The fighting between the two armed drug trafficking groups — fueled and financed in part by a booming global cocaine business ...
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People displaced by violence in Colombia flee across the border to Venezuela
Inhabitants of the Colombian town of Tibu, on the northern border with Venezuela, have fled following a wave of violence that ...
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Migrants turn to prostitution to escape Venezuela's crisis
But two young women at the nearby Simón Bolívar Park, 22 and 26 years old, said they were from the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo and moved to Colombia one month ago to work as prostitutes ...
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Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela
The government has declared a “state of internal commotion” in response to the worst humanitarian crisis in decades ...
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Colombia asks Venezuela to help quell border violence
Colombia called on neighboring Venezuela Thursday to help tackle guerrillas blamed for a week of bloody violence that has ...
Colombian drug gang violence kills 60 people
The death toll from attacks by a rebel group in Colombia's Catatumbo region has risen to 60 ... control of the cocaine trade in the region - which sits near the border with Venezuela - for years. The ...
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Colombia and Venezuela discuss curbing armed groups behind dozens of deaths, says Petro
Colombia and Venezuela share a 2,219-kilometer border, about 375 kilometers of which are in the Catatumbo region, a poor, mountainous area with a limited presence of state authorities, where armed ...
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Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado arrested, motorcycle convoy fired at by security after protest against Maduro
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela opposition leader ... enough to take action to rescue Maria Corina Machado?,” former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on social media.