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Venezuelan man says his rose tattoos got him deported to El Salvador’s brutal prison: ‘I thought my life had ended’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/man-deported-tattoos-cecot-el-salvador

Published: March 3, 2026 12:00

Trump administration accused Luis Muñoz Pinto of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang. Now living in Colombia he hopes to clear his name and study engineering in the USIt was the busiest hour of the evening in Bolivar Square, one of the most iconic spots


Historic harvests and sky-high prices – so why can’t Colombia’s coffee-growers hire pickers?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/03/historic-harvests-and-sky-high-prices-so-why-cant-colombias-coffee-growers-hire-pickers

Published: March 3, 2026 11:00

Though coffee is one of the world’s most important commodities, little of the profit trickles down to the farmers, while workers are abandoning the countryside in search of more lucrative jobs in the cityMary Luz PĂ©rez Arrubla and her brother, Rodrigo, are


Beatriz González review – the corpses pile up in a gripping retrospective that can be difficult to bear

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/25/beatriz-gonzalez-review-the-corpses-pile-up-in-a-gripping-retrospective-that-can-be-difficult-to-bear

Published: February 25, 2026 06:00

Barbican, London The Colombian artist, who died this year aged 93, lived through years of conflict and corruption, making biting, macabre and endlessly forceful work from postcards, cheap furniture and press cuttingsThe art of Beatriz González is drenched


‘If we see you again, we kill you’: how a Colombian wildlife hotspot turned into a death zone

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/24/colombia-barrancabermeja-ecopetrol-oil-fishing-wetlands-wildlife-armed-groups-death-zone

Published: February 24, 2026 13:00

Armed groups and a state-owned refinery’s oil leaks have displaced Barrancabermeja’s fishing community and poisoned a paradise once full of manatees and jaguarsStanding on her wooden canoe, a machete in her hand, Yuly Velásquez hacks away at reeds matted


Venezuelan deportee can return to US but fears repeat of ordeal: ‘I’m not over that nightmare yet’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/14/venezuelan-illegally-deported-return-fears

Published: February 14, 2026 17:34

Luis Muñoz Pinto, 27, who was sent to notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador, would like to clear his name after US judge’s rulingA US federal judge’s order that some of the Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a notorious prison in El


‘Coca leaf is life itself’: Andean growers’ hopes fade as WHO upholds global curb

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/10/coca-leaf-cocaine-bolivia-colombia-sacred-indigenous-un-ban-us

Published: February 10, 2026 15:00

Under US pressure as part of the ‘war on drugs’, the WHO still categorises the sacred Indigenous remedy as akin to heroin or fentanyl, despite its many therapeutic propertiesFor thousands of years, Andean people living around what is now the town of


‘They’d rarely seen television’: childhood magic in rural Colombia – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/feb/05/colombia-magic-eyes-scenes-from-an-andean-girlhood-by-wendy-ewald-from-stories-aicia-and-maria-vazquez-in-pictures

Published: February 5, 2026 07:00

Wendy Ewald’s novel Magic Eyes is interspersed with photographs of the children she taught in a village outside Bogotá – and the stunning pictures she taught them to take Continue reading...

Colombian president and Trump put aside insults for amicable White House meeting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/03/colombian-president-and-trump-put-aside-insults-for-amicable-white-house-meeting

Published: February 3, 2026 23:21

Leaders had been trading hostile remarks for months but Gustavo Petro’s visit ended with warm words from US counterpartAfter months of trading insults – from “sick man” and “drug trafficking leader” on one side, to “accomplice to genocide” with a “senile


Trump-Petro meeting could end in detente or discord with Colombia leader

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/trump-petro-white-house-meeting

Published: February 3, 2026 10:00

Outcome of meeting uncertain as ‘erratic, temperamental’ presidents could be either ‘confrontational’ or amicableOne month ago, a White House meeting between Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, would have been unthinkable.The US raid


‘I was overwhelmed, it was a miracle’: the jailed mothers getting a second chance in Colombia

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/30/second-chances-colombian-law-mothers-prison-women-freed-sentence-community

Published: January 30, 2026 12:00

More than 200 women with caring responsibilities have been freed from prison under the country’s Public Utility Law Jennifer Chaparro Pernet cannot remember the exact moment she became aware of a commotion outside the prison. But she recalls feeling a


‘Clean air should not be a privilege’: how Bogotá is tackling air pollution in its poorest areas

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/bogota-air-pollution-poorest-areas-zuma

Published: January 29, 2026 17:30

Colombian city launched its first clean air zone in one of its poorest neighbourhoods and has plans for green spaces tooEvery Sunday in Bogotá, streets across the city are closed to cars and transformed into urban parks. Shirtless rollerbladers with


As Colombia moves to outlaw cockfighting, a bloody night unfolds in Cartagena

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/29/colombia-cockfighting-ban-cartagena

Published: January 29, 2026 11:00

Cheers erupt at each killing blow in an arena facing extinction after a landmark court rulingOn the outskirts of Cartagena – far from the brightly coloured facades of the old city and the 500-year-old fortress walls overlooking the Caribbean – a crowd of


They survived conquistadors and settlers. Now the Arhuaco are facing an even greater threat

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/25/indigenous-people-colombia-violence-arhuaco-people-guerrillas-traffickers

Published: January 24, 2026 13:00

Colombia’s Sierra Nevada has become a strategic prize for drug traffickers and paramilitaries, leaving its Indigenous people threatened with ‘physical and cultural extinction’Around a fire in a ceremonial hut in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the


Colombian ex-paramilitary leader jailed for crimes against Indigenous groups

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/20/colombia-ex-paramilitary-leader-salvatore-mancuso-jailed-crimes-against-indigenous-groups

Published: January 20, 2026 12:12

Salvatore Mancuso given 40-year sentence, which could be reduced after truth and reparation activitiesA Colombian court has sentenced a former paramilitary leader to 40 years in prison for crimes committed against Indigenous communities in the province of


Beatriz GonzĂĄlez obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/18/beatriz-gonzalez-obituary

Published: January 18, 2026 16:03

Colombian artist whose haunting work dealt with questions of power and conflict for six decadesIn the middle of Bogotá’s Central Cemetery stands the columbarium, built in 1943 to house the bodies of poor and unidentified people. Abandoned and neglected, in


The Guardian view on Trump’s world: from Venezuela to Iran to Greenland, the madness is the method | Editorial

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/15/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-world-from-venezuela-to-iran-to-greenland-the-madness-is-the-method

Published: January 15, 2026 19:09

The US president delights in his inconsistency. But his short-term victories have profound long-term costs for his country and the worldThe Middle East was braced on Wednesday night, but the anxious petitioning of Gulf states and Iran’s attempts to appease


‘It’s not the 90s any more’: the all-women team reinventing abortion advice for the TikTok age

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/13/its-not-the-90s-any-more-the-all-women-team-reinventing-abortion-advice-for-the-tiktok-age

Published: January 13, 2026 10:00

The irreverent approach of the Colombian hotline Jacarandas has made it the most-followed abortion account on social media in the Spanish-speaking worldWhat do a purple cartoon cat and abortion have in common? Nothing – and that is the point, say the women


Trump’s other Latin American feud: why Colombia’s Petro is not Maduro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/12/trump-latin-america-feud-colombia-gustavo-petro

Published: January 12, 2026 12:07

Leftwing leader rallies his supporters as US president accuses him of drug trafficking and threatens military actionA leftwing South American firebrand calls for his followers to rally in public squares nationwide to defend his country’s sovereignty and


‘History will tell’: as US pressure grows, Cuba edges closer to collapse amid mass exodus

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/10/cuba-regime-polycrisis-collapse-exodus-economy-migration-us-sanctions-trump

Published: January 10, 2026 16:00

Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?Hatri Echazabal Orta lives in Madrid, Spain. Maykel


‘We can’t take it any more’: thousands flee guerrilla clashes on Colombia-Venezuela border

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/09/clashes-colombia-venezuela-border-after-maduro-capture

Published: January 9, 2026 05:00

Caracas shake-up could intensify violence in Catatumbo in Colombia, an area rich with coca crops, cocaine laboratories and a porous border with VenezuelaAlberto’s eyes shifted nervously. His chin trembled.His slender hands fumbled with a manila folder