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I am a British freelance journalist based in Bogotá, Colombia. My work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Reuters, NPR, the Miami Herald, the New Humanitarian and others.

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Al Jazeera •

Colombian court ruling sentences 12 ex-military officers

A special Colombian court sentenced 12 former military officers to between five and eight years of reparation work for their involvement in 135 “false positive” deaths – killing civilians and then falsely reporting them as rebel fighters – between the years 2002 and 2005.Thursday’s landmark ruling is the first time the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), Colombia’s transitional justice body, issued individual sentences against government security forces for crimes committed in the decades-long...
The Straits Times •

Small businesses struggle as China’s Temu spurs more Latin Americans to shop online

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inboxThe total value of e-commerce sales in Latin America amounted to $815 billion in 2024.BOGOTA, Colombia – Since formally launching in Colombia in May 2024, Chinese e-commerce platform Temu has taken the country by storm, usurping Amazon to become the second-most popular shopping site after Argentine giant Mercado Libre. But the Chinese firm’s success does not lie just in outcompeting rival e-commerce sites.

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Al Jazeera •

‘Never touched a gun’: Colombia fighters step up child soldier recruitment

As Colombia’s conflicts continue to escalate, criminal organisations increasingly rely on underage soldiers to bolster their ranks.The last time Marta saw her 14-year-old son was three months ago – he was wearing rebel army fatigues and holding a rifle as he marched down the street with the other child soldiers.She ran to the commanding officer and begged him to release her boy, who had been abducted nine months earlier in the middle of the night from their home in eastern Colombia at age 13. Th...
NPR •

Colombian Presidential hopeful shot at Bogotá rally

BOGOTA, Colombia —Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was shot in the head at a Bogotá campaign event Saturday, in an attack that sent shockwaves through the country. The politician's condition remains unclear after being shot by a 15-year-old sicario, or paid hitman, while delivering a speech to a small group of supporters in a park in the west of the capital. Videos posted on social media show the politician bleeding beside a car before being rushed to a nea...
Al Jazeera •

Colombia rejects Guatemalan court’s arrest warrants for top officials

Colombia says that the action by Guatemalan Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche is part of a politically motivated campaign.Bogota, Colombia – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has criticised a Guatemalan court order for the arrests of two senior Colombian officials, accusing the prosecutor’s office of being corrupt.Guatemalan Public Prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche on Monday accused Colombian Attorney General Luz Adriana Camargo and former Colombian Defence Minister Ivan Velasquez of corruption, influen...
Miami Herald •

Colombia joins China’s Belt and Road Initiative amid tensions with Trump

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has formalized his country’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, or New Silk Road, a sprawling geoeconomic development project that already includes over 140 countries.

The two nations signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday “welcoming China’s initiative to promote the Silk Road Economic Belt” and pledging greater cooperation in a range of areas including infrastructure and trade.

The move by Colombia, traditionally one of Washington’s stronges...
Miami Herald •

Wave of police killings in Colombia copies drug lord Pablo Escobar’s terror tactics

Nineteen police officers and 12 soldiers have been killed by armed groups in Colombia since April 15, in what President Gustavo Petro has called a “plan pistola” – a tactic popularized by notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar that seeks to terrorize law enforcement.

According to police, armed groups are putting cash bounties on officers’ heads, a strategy Escobar used in the 1990s during peak cartel violence. Security experts say the killings are a backlash by groups like the Gaitanist Army of Colo...
Reuters •

USAID suspension shutters Colombia programs, endangering FARC peace deal

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Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reu...

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