Two wounded in ceiling collapse in Montería shopping center

Sec. Mattis announces the US will send a hospital ship to Colombia to help Colombia cope with the influx of refugees fleeing Venezuelan government

A decorated Special Forces soldier was arrested Monday for attempting to smuggle nearly 90 pounds of cocaine from Colombia into the U.S. on a military airplane, according to two defense officials.

The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, and the US Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, held a private meeting in Bogotá to discuss various bilateral issues and the region, especially Venezuela, as has transpired.

The network of chuzadas had coverage in Bogotá, Medellín and Bucaramanga, and the headquarters were coordinated by the two colonels in retirement of the Army who were arrested.

The president of Colombia, @IvanDuque, received this Friday at the Casa de Nariño, the Secretary of Defense of the United States, #JamesMattis, who is in Bogotá on the occasion of his first tour of South America

In a meeting between President Iván Duque and the Secretary of Defense of the United States, James Matis, topics on organized crime, drug trafficking and the Venezuelan government were treated as a risk to national security.

Maduro has threatened his neighbors who have pointed out the failures of the regime, he should know that in this hemisphere the problems are not solved like this -Mattis said.

The Secretary of Defense of the United States, James Mattis, announced today that this Friday he will meet with the new president of Colombia, Iván Duque, with whom he will address the tragic situation in Venezuela, among other issues.

FARC party does not know whereabouts of its leader Iván Márquez

#Colombia: President Iván Duque to #ELN members: you will have the helping hand of the State to demobilize individually

Iván Duque, president of Colombia, assured during a ceremony of recognition of the Armed Forces, that his Government will not accept any blackmail or intimidation by illegal armed groups.

Clashes in Morales, Cauca, leave one Farc dissident dead and another captured

Explosion of a grenade in Caucasia leaves two injured

Colombia: Regional Emergency in the Sierra Nevada and Santa Marta cause forest fire

#Colombia: President Iván Duque ordered to attend the emergency of Mocoa

Reports that ELN recruited 24 children in Chocó

Vice President of Colombia assured that Duque's government will not allow it to fall into a crisis like Venezuela

#Ecopetrol denounced attack on oil pipeline in border area with #Venezuela

Prosecutor Luisa Ortega Díaz on "detention" of Requesens: "Undoubtedly this is a kidnapping, the arrest of him - Juan Requesens - takes place arbitrarily, there is no due process"

#Colombia: President Iván Duque orders to reinforce security on the border with #Venezuela

Panama says it is irresponsible to accuse Santos of the attack against Maduro without evidence.

Colombian official tells: "All options are on the table - including the cancellation of the recognition of the Palestinian state". Confirms the former and the current FM minister spoke on this issue in the past, but says "They were surprised of the announcement"

The Israeli embassy in Bogota published a strong statement: "Israel is very surprised and very disappointed by the outgoing Colombian government decision to recognize Palestine and also by the way the decision was taken without giving prior notice to a close ally like Israel"

The Colombian foreign minister also wrote to her Palestinian colleague: "We are aware of the hardships of the Palestinian people and we think that in order to help creating a Palestinian state there has to be unity within the Palestinian people"

Palestinian FM Riad al-Maliki: Colombia recognizes the State of Palestine.

Iván Duque, president-elect of Colombia arrives at the Bolívar plaza in Bogotá where he will be sworn in as the new President of Colombia.

Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 - 7km N of Aratoca, Colombia

#Colombia Thus the preparations for the inauguration of the president of Colombia @IvanDuque in Bogotá.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro survives drone 'attack', blames Colombia and right-wing plotters