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Dec 26, 2024 · Colombia’s government decreed a 9.5% minimum wage hike after employers and labor unions failed to reach agreement. The wage hike that will take force in January is …

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Dec 26, 2024 · Colombia’s war crimes tribunal JEP announced that forensic experts found human remans in a waste dump in the west of Medellin.. The exhumation of at least two victims of …

Nov 4, 2024 · Colombia’s military commander ordered the elimination of joint task forces that were created in 2003 to combat guerrilla group FARC, which largely demobilized in 2017.. The …

Dec 5, 2016 · The AUC, or the United Self Defense Forces of Colombia, was a paramilitary organization that operated from 1997 to 2006.

Dec 19, 2024 · A Bogota judge jailed the former councillor on regional issues of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro over her alleged involvement in a corruption scandal at the disaster …

Nov 18, 2024 · A disagreement about peace talks with Colombia’s government caused a surprise split between commanders of guerrilla group Segunda Marquetalia (SM). The internal division …

Oct 3, 2021 · AGC / “Gulf Clan” | FARC dissidents | “Puntilleros” | EPL / “Pelusos” | Caparrapos | Oficina de Envigado | Mafia de Sinaloa | LDNP | Cordillera | Pachenca ELN activity (2020) The …

Jan 12, 2023 · To produce one kilo of cocaine some 125 kilos of coca is needed, which would cost a local drug lab $137.50. Once the lab has turned the coca leaves first into coca paste, …