A court in Guatemala has sentenced a former soldier to 5160 years in prison for the mass murder of 171 people. The massacre is seen as one of the most cruel crimes in the civil war that plagued the Central American country from 1960 to 1996.
The Conservative presidential candidate Iván Duque has won the presidential elections in Colombia. He received 54 percent of the votes against 42 for his leftist rival Gustavo Petro, as it turned out after 97 percent of the votes had been counted.
The United States has asked the government of Colombia to hand over one of the former leaders of the FARC guerilla movement. The American embassy has submitted an official extradition request for Seusis Hernandez, who is also called Jesus Santrich.
The widow and son of Pablo Escobar, the world's most famous drug lord, have been officially charged with laundering drug money in Argentina.
The Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's government gives Venezuelan identification cards to Colombians. Maduro then tries to bring them into Venezuela so they will vote for him during the presidential election of next Sunday, says the Colombian government.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is deeply concerned about the ever-growing influx of refugees from Venezuela. 'We need international help, the situation is very problematic', he said to the DPA news agency in Münster.
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on regional leaders to do more to isolate Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. He said at the top of American countries in Peru that Washington is not 'on the sidelines' while the country collapses.
Colombia has tightened border controls by deploying more than 2,000 additional military personnel, but continues to help the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who have fled the misery at home. President Juan Manuel Santos promised Thursday in Cucuta, where many migrants enter the country. His government is spending millions on their reception.
After a bomb attack by the guerrilla organization ELN at a police station, the Colombian government stops the peace talks with the left-wing rebels indefinitely. ' I have decided to suspend the fifth round of negotiations until the ELN's actions are in line with their words', said President Juan Manuel Santos Monday after consultation with the chief negotiator of the government, Gustavo Bell.
The Colombian government wants to resume the peace talk with the left guerrilla movement ELN, the National Liberation Army, as soon as possible. 'We are currently discussing a new armistice,' President Juan Manuel Santos said in Vienna. He hopes to quickly reach an agreement on a cease-fire and then sit down at the negotiating table to 'make a total peace with the ELN'.
The United Nations is prepared to mobilize international aid for Colombia to meet the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan refugees. This is what UN chief António Guterres said on a weekend visit to the Colombian capital Bogota.
A Colombian employee of an oil company was kidnapped by ELN rebels. The abduction was a few days after the expiry of a cease-fire with the government, just when UN top executive António Guterres visits the country, reports the BBC. According to the police, the man was taken from his workshop in Saravena near the border with Venezuela.
The Colombian ELN rebels have again carried out attacks on Wednesday. This happened shortly after the expiry of a truce with the government, said high military sources. This can have consequences for the peace talks with the insurgents.
The Colombian police seized a party of more than twelve thousand kilos of cocaine on Wednesday. It is the biggest drug trafficking ever in the years of drug trafficking in the country, so President Juan Manuel Santos described the finding.
In Norway, Oslo will be announced on Friday who will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, the prize went to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who reached a peace agreement with FARC rebel movement.
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 elections in Angola on Wednesday were won by the MPLA, the party of retiring president José Eduardo dos Santos. Independent
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 People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) will end on a wide-ranging election victory. The government party has now counted almost two thirds of the vote, supporting a little 65 percent of the electorate. So far, the main opposition party Unita has not received 25 percent. That's what the electoral spokesman said on Thursday evening in Luanda. The turnout was 77 percent.
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.
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.
The ELN (National Liberation Army), who was behind the kidnapping of the Spurseless presenter Derk Bolt and his cameraman Eugenio Follender, does not regret the kidnapping. In a letter, she is the cause of the great war threat.
To the great satisfaction of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the FARC guerrilla movement has handed over 30 percent of its weapons arena to the United Nations. 'An historic day,' Santos responded to the further demilitarization of the rebels.
The Colombian President Santos has decided that it was sunk three centuries ago, San José's Spanish galleon. Aboard is probably a treasure that is estimated to be between 2.5 and 15 billion euros.
The United States announced Thursday sanctions against eight members of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The bankruptcy of the courts in US banks will be frozen, they can not enter the country and they can not trade with US citizens.
Burney Fonseca, aka 'Nini', has been convicted of custody of Helmin Wiels as a murder broker for 25 years. That is what the court in Willemstad announced today. It was this week exactly four years ago that the most popular politician of Curaçao was shot on the beach of Marie Pompoen.
An earthquake with a force of 7.2 hit the Philippines on Friday on Friday. The shock, later adjusted by the American Geological Service to 6.9, was best felt in the south of the island of Mindanao. There is nothing known about damage.
If in three years the first self-propelled cars totally independent driving on the road, as hope the creators, they owe it to Grand Theft Auto V. The imaginary streets of Los Santos in the game are realistic enough to test the technology.
In Colombia, more than three hundred people still missing since the landslides and floods in the town of Mocoa. The death toll has now risen to 293, said President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has extended the emergency for the area hit by landslides and floods. The government decided Monday to declare ' economic, social and environmental state of emergency ''. That should enable faster emergency funding.
