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At least fourteen people were killed when a bus collapsed on a small road in northwest Colombia.

Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma Díaz arrived Saturday in Spain. The ex-mayor of Caracas had fled to Colombia from his home country a day earlier. He then boarded the plane to Europe.

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The police in Colombia intercepted a 2438 kilogram cocaine. The drugs were found in a ship located in the port of Barranquilla. The search was preceded by months of research.

The next three governments in Colombia must abide by the peace agreement reached by the current government in 2016 with the Marxist rebel movement FARC. That has decided the Colombian Constitutional Court to withhold possible amendments to the treaty.

With just one week to go before the referendum in Catalonia, both tension and confusion continue. The Spanish police have taken over the authority of the Catalan police- after all the public finances have fallen under control of Madrid.

The Colombian police rescued a newborn baby in northern Colombia, who was left dead for a dump. A homeless person heard the cry of the girl who hit the alarm.

If humanity does not address climate change, then it goes down. The current series of hurricanes that harass the Caribbean and the United States show the need for action.

Latin singers and singers scored the most views on YouTube this summer, so the video site was known. In the top 25 most viewed summer hits, there are 16 songs from an artist from Latin America. Despacito is in the first place.

Pope Franciscus flies because of Hurricane Irma. The device with the church frog had to change due to the natural violence in the Caribbean area, said a staff member of the Vatican.

Rebellion group ELN and the Colombian government have agreed a ceasefire. That has made ELN known via Twitter. The deal is a tribute to Pope Franciscus who visits this country this week.

The government of Maduro has undermined the news supply in Venezuela. The controversial leftist regime decided to remove the Colombian radio and television stations Caracol and RCN. On Thursday morning, the channels on all major cable networks in the capital of Caracas went to black.

The dismissed Attorney General of Venezuela Luisa Ortega said Wednesday at a meeting of South American lawyers in Brasilia to prove that President Nicolás Maduro has been involved in the corruption scandal surrounding the Odebrecht conglomerate. Apart from Maduro, Diosdado Cabello and Jorge Rodriguez, other headlines of the Venezuelan Socialist Party, are also blamed.

The former Attorney General of Venezuela Luisa Ortega has traveled to Brazil. That has been announced by the Colombian immigration service on Tuesday. Ortega, a declared opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, fled in friday from her husband via Aruba to Colombia. The prosecutor stated that her life was no longer safe in Venezuela.

Venezuela's former public prosecutor Luisa Ortega went on a safe visit in Colombia on Friday.

Almost twenty million Venezuelans can go to the polls on Sunday to elect a constitutional meeting on the initiative of President Nicolás Maduro. It will be an exciting day, but not because of the results. Maduro's opponents see the ballot like a 'trick' to turn off parliament. The question is how they react.

The Spanish police rolled up an international drug gang that worked from Barcelona and sold and sent Dutch xtc worldwide. Among the four detainees in Barcelona is a Dutchman who brought xtc pills from the Netherlands to Barcelona. Three other arrests have been made in Costa Rica and Colombia, Spanish media reported Thursday.

In Costa Rica a 22-year-old man from Colombia was arrested. He would be threatened with a terrorist attack at Ariana Grande's concert in Costa Rica, reports the newspaper La Nación Costa Rica.

The Brazilian police arrested one of South America's biggest drug traffickers. It's about drug boss Luiz Carlos da Rocha, who had been in flight for the police for thirty years. He used to use plastic surgery to remain in charge of the agents and used different identities.

After fifty years of struggle, the Colombian guerrilla movement FARC has handed all weapons to the United Nations. The 6800 fighters have handed all 7132 registered weapons, let the UN know Monday. For Tuesday, an official ceremony for the termination of the arms transfer in the city of Mesetas is planned in the presence of the FARC and President Juan Manuel Santos.

A boat with 150 tourists was sunk in the waters of the Peñol-Guatapé reservoir, northwest of Colombia. Units of Army, Air Force and Navy have been erected to assist firemen and police. That reported Colombian media. There is nothing clear about any victims.

A gas explosion in a mine in Colombia has cost at least eleven miners a living. Two people are still missing and one was injured by the blast, the Colombian authorities announced on Saturday.

The ELN (National Liberation Army) behind the abduction of two Dutch journalists is one of the smaller guerrilla groups in Colombia. The largest is the FARC, where the Colombian government closed a peace agreement last year and almost disarmed. The ELN is still fighting and terrorizing parts of the country, especially in the northeast.

KRO-NCRV, which broadcasts Spoorloos, is happy and relieved: 'We are all grateful to everyone who has helped to release Derk and Eugenio. In particular, thanks to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. '

'This is very good news. I am very pleased that the abduction has ended so quickly. 'That said Minister Bert Koenders of Foreign Affairs in a first response to the release of the team of the Spoorloos program. The minister responded relieved of the release.

Presenter Derk Bolt and cameraman Eugenio Follender are free. They are on their way to the inhabited world and are escorted by a humanitarian committee last night in the area where the two were detained by the ELN. In a brief first reaction, Bolt knew that he was doing well and that he was happy to be free again. The release comes after a night of unclearness about the liberation of the duo abducted a week ago in Colombia.

UPDATE 6.30- Trackless presenter Derk Bolt and his cameraman Eugenio Follender are probably still stuck. Guerrilla movement ELN has withdrawn the announcement of their release after Friday released the organization on Twitter that the two were released.

Colombian journalists today have fired the Dutch abducted colleagues Derk Bolt and Eugenio Follender. In the central square of the city of Cucuta near the rebel area, they protested for their release. 'My brother was one of the first kidnapped by the ELN'.

The two Colombia-abducted journalists Derk Bolt (62) and cameraman Eugenio Follender (58) 'are released soon'. That writes Twitter Twitter ELN_Paz, which claims to be on behalf of the ELN Guerrilla Movement.

In Colombia there are new indications that the release process of the abducted Dutch journalists Derk Bolt and Eugenio Follender is taking place. According to various sources in the city of Cucuta, there is a mission of the Catholic Church on the way to meeting emissaries of the left-wing rebel group ELN.