Colombian-born Jose Bayron Piedrahita  is wanted in the US for allegedly trying to bribe a federal agent in an attempt to make his American criminal record to go away.

According to daily El Clarin, Piedrahita is also accused of laundering drug money in a real estate project  in which Escobar's widow, Maria Isabel Santos, and his son, Sebastian Marroquin, also have a stake.

Piedrahita, who was put on the Kingpin List in 2016, allegedly used several Argentine projects to launder between $ 10 million and $ 15 million between 2008 and 2010

Santos and Marroquin received a 4.5% commission on one of the allegedly  dirty investment.

Yamile Arciniegas

The Met Office has issued a yellow warning for strong winds and potential flooding in parts of southern and western England and Wales on Saturday.

Met Eireann issued an orange warning, of potentially " significant" impact, for parts of the Irish Republic.

It is the second named storm to hit the Uk this winter, after Strom Aileen.

The strom - which could bring gusts of wind of up to 70mph (112Kmph) - is likely to hit parts of south-west Ireland in the early hours of Saturday Morning.

It is then forecast to affect parts of southern England and southern and western Wales later in the later in the morning.

The Met Office's warning is in place from 04:00 BST (05:00 GMT) on saturday

Yamile Arciniegas

 The move comes a day after police in the area fired into the air and launched stun grenades against a humanitarian commission made up of human rights activists and local journalists as they attempted to reach the remote site of the killings.

 President Juan Manuel Santos on Monday called the episode “regrettable” and promised a thorough investigation of both incidents, which have highlighted the continued threat of violence in the country even after a peace deal with Farc rebels.

 The six farmers were killed on 5 October during a protest by growers of coca leaf, used in making cocaine, against forced eradication efforts. Security forces first blamed a dissident faction of the Farc for the deaths but local activists said the police had opened fire on the protesters. Preliminary forensic testing showed the six farmers were killed by high-velocity long-range bullets. 

Daniela Nieto

month’s worth of rain fell in a single night, triggering deadly flash floods in Mocoa and a desperate search for survivors. Three of the six rivers surrounding the small town burst their banks, leaving muddy water and tree limbs racing through the streets. Homes were destroyed and cars carried away as though they were driftwood

As survivors mourn the dead, questions have been raised as to why Mocoa, which lies in a vulnerable position, was not better prepared for the disaster. Government agencies, land-use experts and environmentalists had warned for years that the town was at risk of dangerous flooding

President Juan Manuel Santos has pledged to rebuild Mocoa and make it ‘better than before’. The government is yet to clarify whether the plans would involve moving people out of the flood zones. Experts are calling for better land-use policies aimed at preventing the deforestation that removes the best natural protection from flooding

                                 Daniela Nieto

UN’s deputy human rights chief Andrew Gilmour (United Kingdom) warned that if former FARC fighters are not reintegrated into society they could pose a risk to effective peace.

Sindy Rojas

Some 700 pilots went on strike to demand better labor conditions two weeks ago.

The strike left Avianca without half its pilots, forcing the airline to cancel more than 3,000 flights, which has affected 280,000 passengers.

                                    Sindy Rojas

Also after the death of Escobar, clandestine organizations from the region have continued to dominate the drug trade.

Sandra Bonet

Government and UN officials have been trying to convince coca growers to take part in this program for almost a year, but have fallen behind in delivering on made promises. This is because the program has received no financial support from cocaine consumer countries and is short of money, according tothe ICG

Yamile Arciniegas

The Commons speaker, John Bercow, today called for Britain’s political parties to “live up to their responsibilities” amid “disturbing” allegations of a “culture of sexual harassment” in Westminster.

In a statement to MPs Mr Bercow called for new rules to require MPs to treat all staff in Parliament with “dignity, courtesy and respect”.

Evidence of breaching such rules could lead to MPs being suspended from the house. He added that calls for a Commons-wide mediation service and contractually-binding grievance procedure for MPs and staff should also be considered.

“Make no mistake, there is a need for change,” he told MPs. “It does not require my intervention for the party to adopt an effective grievance scheme.

Lucelmi Velasco

Two 14-year-old boys have been arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.

They are being held on “suspicion of preparing for an act of terrorism” after intense police activity in Northallerton, a market town in North Yorkshire. They were arrested on Saturday and have been transferred to police stations in West Yorkshire, where they are being questioned.

The police search has centred on a garage building with a blue metal shutter door in the town’s Romanby area.

Witnesses reported seeing a large number of police vehicles and unmarked cars on Grange Close and Boroughbridge Road, in Romanby, near a derelict former tyre garage, for most of the day on Saturday and into Sunday.

Since the arrests on Saturday, there has been intense police activity…

Lucelmi Velasco

Drying-out centres should be piloted as an alternative to police custody for those detained under the influence of drink or drugs, a report into deaths in custody recommends today.

Ministers should look at setting up centres in large urban areas after the report found that 82 per cent of people who died in or following police custody between 2004-05 and 2014-15 had some link to drugs or alcohol or both — and almost half had those factors identified specifically as a cause of death.

The recommendation is one of 110 in a report into deaths in police custody which was commissioned by Theresa May when she was Home Secretary and was completed 11 months ago.

Lucelmi Velasco