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A series of protests began in Colombia on 28 April 2021 against increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform proposed by the government of President Iván Duque.The tax initiative was introduced to expand funding to Ingreso Solidario, a universal basic income social program established in April 2020 to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia, while the legislative Bill ...
1 January – Colombia and Venezuela agrees to reopen the last remaining border that has been previously blocked by authorities due to worsening ties. [1] 20 January – A Dominican man who was lost in the Caribbean Sea for 24 days is rescued by the Colombian Navy. [2] 19 January –12 February: 2023 South American U-20 Championship [3]
On the other hand, forced displacement in Colombia since the start of Colombian armed conflict in the 1960s, although mostly taking place within the borders of the country, [8] has forced anywhere between 360 thousand to 2.9 million people to become refugees abroad, mostly low-income individuals; though these numbers are highly unreliable due ...
Virginia Vallejo was born on 26 August 1949 in Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, near her family's ranch.Her parents were Juan Vallejo Jaramillo, an entrepreneur, and Mary García Rivera. [19]
As the oldest newspaper in Colombia still in circulation, El Espectador is considered a newspaper of record for Colombia and a home for prominent writers, [2] including the 1982 Nobel Prize Laurete Gabriel García Márquez. It is a member of the Inter American Press Association and the Asociación de Diarios Colombianos (ANDIARIOS). It defined ...
The number includes deaths, capture, and desertions. He said the National Liberation Army (ELN) still has 2,450 members and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has 2,500. [1] January 17 – Scientists say the cocaine hippos in the Magdalena river basin are breeding voraciously and are an increasing menace so they must be culled. [2 ...
ANNCOL (Agencia de Noticias Nueva Colombia, "New Colombia News Agency") is a non-commercial alternative news agency based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1996 by Latin American and European journalists and maintains intermittently a web portal since May, 1998.
The Historic Pact for Colombia (Spanish: Pacto Histórico por Colombia, PHxC) is a political and electoral coalition in Colombia composed of political parties and social movements with ideologies ranging from the centre-left, [8] [9] left-wing, [10] and far-left. [11] It is the current Government Coalition in Colombia after the 2022 ...