https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2 HISTORICAL EVENTS en-us 2021-05-29 20:11:45 UTC 2023-07-26 07:04:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1012175787/e4f6664e66d12768f3b1a7b91b361cc8/222px_Coat_of_arms_of_Colombia_svg.png yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570972960 A Colombian diplomat sent by President Uribe accuses Venezuela of harboring FARC rebels on the Venezuelan side of the border.]]> 2021-05-30 00:42:44 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570972960 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570975730 Former Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, and heir apparent to one of the most powerful families in Colombia, succeeds Alvaro Uribe as President of Colombia.]]> 2021-05-30 00:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570975730 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570976486 A Colombian diplomat sent by President Uribe accuses Venezuela of harboring FARC rebels on the Venezuelan side of the border.]]> 2021-05-30 00:48:50 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570976486 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570980036 Panama's national police force killed three guerrillas from a Colombian rebel group in a confrontation along the sparsely populated frontier between the two countries. Two others were captured while and one escaped.]]> 2021-05-30 00:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570980036 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570980212 Panama's national police force killed three guerrillas from a Colombian rebel group in a confrontation along the sparsely populated frontier between the two countries. Two others were captured while and one escaped.]]> 2021-05-30 00:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570980212 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570985245 FARC began releasing hostages for financial ransoms
Numerous unilateral cease-fire's established, only to be broken when FARC took people hostage
In July 2015, President Santos and FARC negotiators pledged to reach final peace agreement within 6 months.]]> 2021-05-30 01:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570985245 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570985995 In Colombia guerrillas erected a road block between Medellin and the Caribbean coast. When police arrived they detonated a bomb killing a police chief.]]> 2021-05-30 01:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570985995 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570986513 A Colombian court ordered a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church to pay $220,000 in restitution to two youths who were sexually abused by one of its priests in 2007. The Rev. Luis Enrique Duque was already serving an 18-year prison sentence for the crime.]]> 2021-05-30 01:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570986513 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570987223 The US Congress approved free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.]]> 2021-05-30 01:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570987223 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570988522 Student leaders in Colombia called off a monthlong boycott of classes at public universities after the government met their demand to withdraw educational reform legislation.]]> 2021-05-30 01:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570988522 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570988914 Colombia's main rebel group executed four captives, held hostage for between 12 and 13 years, during combat between guerrillas and soldiers searching for the men. ]]> 2021-05-30 01:13:08 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570988914 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570989688 Tens of thousands marched across Colombia to repudiate last month's execution of soldiers and police by leftist rebels, who had held them for more than a decade as political bargaining chips.]]> 2021-05-30 01:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570989688 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570991660 Colombia’s free trade agreement with the US went into effect. It was initially signed in 2006 under George Bush and Alvaro Uribe.]]> 2021-05-30 01:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1570991660 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1580761323 Dec 28, Colombia's Congress passed a law granting amnesty to Marxist FARC rebels as part of the country's peace deal.
    (AFP, 12/29/16)

]]> 2021-06-02 21:05:28 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1580761323 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1594330867  Farc steps up its campaign of violence. Colombian army kills senior Farc commander Mono Jojoy in air strike in Macarena region.]]> 2021-06-09 00:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1594330867 fabianculman71 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1594409748 In the National Development Plan, it was established to position Colombia from knowledge, scientific and technological production, and innovation as the central axis of competitiveness]]> 2021-06-09 01:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1594409748 fabianculman71 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1594656712 Jorge Reynolds In 2014, he began to develop a new version of the artificial pacemaker based on nanotechnology. Although this invention is still in the experimental phase, it represents an important scientific advance because, unlike the 1958 pacemaker.]]> 2021-06-09 02:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1594656712 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596711368 Air and ground assaults on two rebel camps killed 18 insurgents and captured 13, 112 miles south of Bogota. ]]> 2021-06-09 19:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596711368 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596720481 In Colombia Mario Uribe, a former senator and second cousin to President Alvaro Uribe, was arrested by authorities on charges of colluding with far-right death squads.]]> 2021-06-09 19:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596720481 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596724993 In Colombia a Constitutional Court ruling blocked a referendum on whether Alvaro Uribe should be allowed to seek a third consecutive term.]]> 2021-06-09 19:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596724993 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596736527 In Colombia Clodomiro Castilla, a reporter and announcer at La Voz de Monteria radio, was gunned down on his front porch. Had reported on far-right drug-funded militias. ]]> 2021-06-09 19:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596736527 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596741962 In Colombia Clodomiro Castilla, had reported on far-right drug-funded militias known as paramilitaries and their friendly ties to the area's business elite.]]> 2021-06-09 19:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596741962 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596754664 Colombia's largest rebel group, FARC, turned over the remains of police Maj. Julian Guevara, who died while being held captive.]]> 2021-06-09 19:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596754664 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596762521  Brazil arrested Nestor Caro Chapparro, said to be one of Colombia's top four drug traffickers. ]]> 2021-06-09 19:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596762521 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596774736 Colombia held presidential elections. A run-off was set for June 20. Insurgents killed 10 policemen and soldiers on election day.]]> 2021-06-09 20:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596774736 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596783163  A Colombian court handed down the first prison sentences to leaders of the illegal far-right militias that demobilized under a peace pact with President Alvaro Uribe's government. ]]> 2021-06-09 20:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596783163 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596788448 In Colombia former hostage Ingrid Betancourt filed a request with Colombia's Defense Ministry to pay her $6.8 million for damages she suffered during six years in rebel captivity. ]]> 2021-06-09 20:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596788448 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596793394 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez broke diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia, accusing the close US ally of fabricating reports that Colombian rebels find safe haven inside Venezuela.]]> 2021-06-09 20:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596793394 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596797682 British oil giant BP said it will sell its Colombian business for a total of 1.9 billion dollars (1.4 billion euros) to national oil company Ecopetrol and Talisman of Canada.]]> 2021-06-09 20:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596797682 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596799865 The leaders of Colombia and Venezuela re-established diplomatic relations, between Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez and Colombia's new leader, Juan Manuel Santos.]]> 2021-06-09 20:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596799865 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596805281 The leaders of Colombia and Venezuela re-established diplomatic relations, between Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez and Colombia's new leader, Juan Manuel Santos.]]> 2021-06-09 20:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596805281 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596813324 Colombian government forces staged a bombing raid in the eastern La Macarena mountains that killed Victor Julio Suarez (aka Mono Jojoy), the senior commander of FARC. ]]> 2021-06-09 20:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596813324 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596817086  Colombia's military killed Jorge Briceno the field marshal and No. 2 commander of FARC,]]> 2021-06-09 20:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596817086 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596821125 Colombia's inspector general ousted Sen. Piedad Cordoba, an outspoken opposition senator, barring her from public service for 18 years for allegedly "promoting and collaborating" with Latin America's last remaining rebel army.]]> 2021-06-09 20:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596821125 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596822708 Colombia's inspector general ousted Sen. Piedad Cordoba, an outspoken opposition senator, barring her from public service for 18 years for allegedly "promoting and collaborating" with Latin America's last remaining rebel army.]]> 2021-06-09 20:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596822708 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596835763 Colombia asked Israel to extradite former Israeli army Lt. Col. Yair Klein, who was convicted by a Colombian court and sentenced in absentia to nearly 11 years in prison for training drug lords' assassins in the late 1980s.]]> 2021-06-09 20:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596835763 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596842196 In Colombia ELN guerrillas kidnapped 11 men in Casanare, who were building the new Bicentenario pipeline.]]> 2021-06-09 20:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596842196 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596861820 In Colombia 3 Chinese staff of the Emerald Energy, a British subsidiary of China’s Sinochem, were kidnapped along with their translator by FARC guerrillas from the Ombu field in Caqueta.  The company had refused to pay $10 per barrel in extortion.]]> 2021-06-09 20:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596861820 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596869894 A Colombian judge ordered the arrest of Bernardo Moreno, former President Alvaro Uribe's chief of staff, for alleged involvement in spying on judges, journalists and politicians by the domestic security agency.]]> 2021-06-09 21:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596869894 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596871681 A Colombian judge ordered the arrest of Bernardo Moreno, former President Alvaro Uribe's chief of staff, for alleged involvement in spying on judges, journalists and politicians by the domestic security agency.]]> 2021-06-09 21:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596871681 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596882613  Colombian police seized 301 properties, that belonged to alleged front men for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. The assets were valued at $250 million.]]> 2021-06-09 21:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596882613 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596890265 Pres. Obama signed free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.]]> 2021-06-09 21:18:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596890265 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596890944  Pres. Obama signed free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea.]]> 2021-06-09 21:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596890944 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596893355  In Colombia voters elected former leftist rebel and anti-corruption crusader Gustavo Petro as mayor of Bogota, ]]> 2021-06-09 21:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596893355 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596895518 Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos dissolved the scandal-plagued DAS domestic intelligence agency.]]> 2021-06-09 21:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596895518 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596901201 In Colombia Alfonso Cano (63), FARC leader from Bogota's middle class, was felled by three bullets.]]> 2021-06-09 21:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596901201 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596907463  Colombia’s free trade agreement with the US went into effect. It was initially signed in 2006 under George Bush and Alvaro Uribe.]]> 2021-06-09 21:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596907463 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596908282  Colombia’s free trade agreement with the US went into effect. It was initially signed in 2006 under George Bush and Alvaro Uribe.]]> 2021-06-09 21:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596908282 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596911433 Jun 6, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru formally established their Pacific Alliance (Alianza de Pacifico). The goal was free trade and economic integration with a clear orientation toward Asia.]]> 2021-06-09 21:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596911433 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596911971 Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru formally established their Pacific Alliance (Alianza de Pacifico). The goal was free trade and economic integration with a clear orientation toward Asia.]]> 2021-06-09 21:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596911971 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596915164  Colombia’s Congress approved a government-sponsored constitutional reform of the judicial system. It stripped the Supreme Court of the power to investigate allegations of crimes committed by legislators.]]> 2021-06-09 21:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596915164 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596916693  Colombia’s Congress approved a government-sponsored constitutional reform of the judicial system. It stripped the Supreme Court of the power to investigate allegations of crimes committed by legislators.]]> 2021-06-09 21:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596916693 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596919237 Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced an accord with the peasant-based FARC to seek "a definitive peace." The pact, signed Aug. 27 ]]> 2021-06-09 21:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596919237 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596920278 Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced an accord with the peasant-based FARC to seek "a definitive peace." The pact, signed Aug. 27 ]]> 2021-06-09 21:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596920278 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596924755  Colombia reduced its area under coca cultivation by 25% this year.]]> 2021-06-09 21:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596924755 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596926940  In Colombia coffee production dropped to 7.7m bags compared to 12.6 m 60kg bags in 2007 due to “coffee rust" fungus or roya.]]> 2021-06-09 21:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596926940 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596927891 Colombia's chief prosecutor's office opened a preliminary criminal investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe over allegations he sponsored a killer far-right militia as a regional governor in the 1990s.]]> 2021-06-09 21:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596927891 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596929309 Colombia's chief prosecutor's office opened a preliminary criminal investigation into former President Alvaro Uribe over allegations he sponsored a killer far-right militia as a regional governor in the 1990s.]]> 2021-06-09 21:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596929309 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596937826 Pope Benedict XVI, who steps down Feb. 28, named Monsignor Ettore Balestrero ambassador, or nunzio, to Colombia. Balestrero was head of the Holy See's delegation to the Council of Europe's Moneyval committee, which evaluated the Vatican's anti-money laundering and anti-terror financing measures.]]> 2021-06-09 21:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596937826 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596944992 Colombia’s state-controlled oil company Ecopetrol said two explosions over the last 24 hours have shut down the 80,000 barrel-per-day Cano Limon-Covenas oil pipeline. A military source describing them as attacks carried out by leftist rebels.]]> 2021-06-09 21:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596944992 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596950943 Colombia's state oil company Ecopetrol said its second most important oil pipeline, the Cano Limon-Covenas, has been temporarily shut down after three bomb attacks. Security forces attributed the attacks to leftist guerrillas.]]> 2021-06-09 22:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596950943 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596953255 The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels resumed peace talks amid differences over coca cultivation, blamed by political leaders for drug-linked violence and killings.]]> 2021-06-09 22:06:27 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596953255 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596954189 The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels resumed peace talks amid differences over coca cultivation, blamed by political leaders for drug-linked violence and killings.]]> 2021-06-09 22:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596954189 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596957988 Colombia’s government began exploratory talks with the rebel National Liberation Army.]]> 2021-06-09 22:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596957988 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596974653 In Colombia John Jairo Velasquez (52), better known by his nickname "Popeye," was paroled this evening despite protests from relatives of his many alleged victims.]]> 2021-06-09 22:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596974653 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596975362 In Colombia John Jairo Velasquez (52), better known by his nickname "Popeye," was paroled this evening despite protests from relatives of his many alleged victims.]]> 2021-06-09 22:24:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596975362 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596982619 Colombia's Supreme Court convicted the country's former intelligence chief Maria del Pilar Hurtado and a presidential chief of staff Bernardo Moreno of spying on judges, journalists and politicians during the presidency of Alvaro Uribe.]]> 2021-06-09 22:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596982619 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596984631 Santos also announced the creation of a peace commission made up of politicians from the right and left, former guerrillas, religious figures, business people and indigenous leaders.]]> 2021-06-09 22:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596984631 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596985689 Santos also announced the creation of a peace commission made up of politicians from the right and left, former guerrillas, religious figures, business people and indigenous leaders.]]> 2021-06-09 22:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596985689 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596988019 The International Agency for Research on Cancer, reclassified the herbicide glyphosate as a result of what it said is convincing evidence the chemical produces cancer in lab animals and more limited findings it causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in humans.]]> 2021-06-09 22:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596988019 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596995023  10,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Mira River, leaving some 150,000 people without drinking water following a rebel attack on a pipeline.]]> 2021-06-09 22:41:29 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596995023 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596995942  10,000 barrels of oil spilled into the Mira River, leaving some 150,000 people without drinking water following a rebel attack on a pipeline.]]> 2021-06-09 22:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1596995942 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597000354 Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro indefinitely closed his country's border with Colombia and declared a state of emergency in part of the frontier region, following an earlier attack that wounded four people.]]> 2021-06-09 22:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597000354 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597000843 Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro indefinitely closed his country's border with Colombia and declared a state of emergency in part of the frontier region, following an earlier attack that wounded four people.]]> 2021-06-09 22:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597000843 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597006721 US President Barack Obama announced a $450 million plan to fund Colombia's peace process, shaking up a controversial military aid program that defined relations for 15 years.]]> 2021-06-09 22:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597006721 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597007329 US President Barack Obama announced a $450 million plan to fund Colombia's peace process, shaking up a controversial military aid program that defined relations for 15 years.]]> 2021-06-09 22:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597007329 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597010563  Colombia’s government and the FARC rebel group missed their self-imposed deadline to sign a peace agreement. ]]> 2021-06-09 22:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597010563 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597012620 In Colombia tens of thousands of people protested in more than 20 cities across the country against President Juan Manuel Santos and his government's peace process with the FARC guerrillas.]]> 2021-06-09 22:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597012620 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597016032 Colombia authorized the use of all military force, including air strikes, against the country's three biggest criminal gangs in a major escalation against "organized armed groups."]]> 2021-06-09 22:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597016032 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597018211 The European Union said it has committed to provide Colombia with a package of 575 million euros ($645 million) to help the nation recover from a half century of civil war.]]> 2021-06-09 23:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597018211 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597018882 The European Union said it has committed to provide Colombia with a package of 575 million euros ($645 million) to help the nation recover from a half century of civil war.]]> 2021-06-09 23:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597018882 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597022085 In Colombia a ceasefire between the FARC and the government went into effect, ending 52 years of warfare.]]> 2021-06-09 23:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597022085 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597022763 In Colombia a ceasefire between the FARC and the government went into effect, ending 52 years of warfare.]]> 2021-06-09 23:05:17 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597022763 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597023993 Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist rebel leader Timochenko signed an agreement ending a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and made their nation a byword for violence.]]> 2021-06-09 23:06:11 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597023993 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597026939 Colombians voted in a referendum on whether to ratify a historic peace accord, Colombians voted 50.21 percent to 49.78 percent against the accord.]]> 2021-06-09 23:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597026939 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597034357 In Sweden Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, saying it helped his country achieve the "impossible dream" of ending a half-century-long civil war.]]> 2021-06-09 23:14:46 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597034357 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597036506 At the Vatican Pope Francis brought Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos and his main political opponent right-wing predecessor, Alvaro Uribe,  together to discuss the country's rebel peace deal.]]> 2021-06-09 23:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597036506 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597039247  Colombia’s human rights watchdog said a total of 120 civil leaders have been killed in Colombia in the past 14 months.]]> 2021-06-09 23:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597039247 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597043163 In Colombia thousands members and supporters of FARC gathered in the central square of Bogota to hail the launch of its new political party.]]> 2021-06-09 23:22:24 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597043163 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597044240 Pope Francis arrived in Colombia with a message of unity for a nation deeply divided by a peace deal that ended a five-decade.]]> 2021-06-09 23:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597044240 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597048677 US President Donald Trump threatened to decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the South American nation reverses a record surge in cocaine production.]]> 2021-06-09 23:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597048677 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597053082  In Colombia 84 human rights activists were killed this year. The UN said they were targeted by drug traffickers, right wing death squads and smaller rebel groups following the 2016 peace deal with the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC).]]> 2021-06-09 23:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597053082 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597059299 Meeting in Colombia the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reported that mankind's voracious consumption of biodiversity has unleashed the first mass species die-off since the demise of the dinosaurs. ]]> 2021-06-09 23:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597059299 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597065495 Colombia held presidential elections. Conservative front-runner Ivan Duque has vowed to rewrite an accord he sees as too lenient on the FARC. ]]> 2021-06-09 23:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597065495 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597070014 Colombia's state-run oil company Ecopetrol SA halted pumping on its Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline because of a bomb attack. The pipeline has been attacked nearly 60 times this year by the National Liberation Army (ELN).]]> 2021-06-09 23:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597070014 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597073783 ELN Marxist rebels in Colombia said they will not suspend their insurgency until President Ivan Duque names a new team of peace negotiators to restart Cuban-hosted talks.]]> 2021-06-09 23:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597073783 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597076148 The World Bank reported that it will cost Colombia upward of $1 billion to tend to the surge of Venezuelan migrants fleeing their nation's economic and humanitarian crisis.]]> 2021-06-09 23:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597076148 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597081130 Thousands of Colombians dressed in white poured into the streets to repudiate terrorism after the Jan. 17 car bombing at a Bogota police academy killed 21 people and left dozens more wounded.]]> 2021-06-09 23:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597081130 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597090374  In Colombia more than 250,000 people marched to express growing discontent with President Ivan Duque's government. Three people were killed in events following marches across the country.]]> 2021-06-09 23:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597090374 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597092308 Colombian unions and student groups held a third national strike amid fraught talks between protest leaders and the government over President Ivan Duque's social and economic policies.]]> 2021-06-09 23:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597092308 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597095047 In Colombia 107 human rights defenders were killed this year despite a peace accord aimed at improving conditions in poor, rural areas.]]> 2021-06-10 00:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597095047 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597097729 Colombia announced its first case of the new coronavirus.]]> 2021-06-10 00:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597097729 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597099872  It was reported that death squads in Colombia are taking advantage of coronavirus lockdowns to murder rural activists. ]]> 2021-06-10 00:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597099872 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597102884 By the end of the month the ELN said they would not extend the ceasefire and would return to violence.]]> 2021-06-10 00:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597102884 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597106011 Colombia extended a nationwide quarantine due to the coronavirus until April 27.]]> 2021-06-10 00:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597106011 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597107945 Colombia's president said mandatory quarantine will be extended by a further two weeks.]]> 2021-06-10 00:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597107945 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597111786  In Colombia eight people, all aged between 17 and 26, were killed in a massacre at a barbecue in the small town of Samaniego late today.]]> 2021-06-10 00:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597111786 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597112998 Colombia has seen 33 massacres this year and 45 human rights defenders have been killed in the same period.]]> 2021-06-10 00:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597112998 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597114671 The Trump administration blocked the scheduled removal of former Colombian paramilitary boss Salvatore Mancuso to Italy.]]> 2021-06-10 00:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597114671 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597116667 In Colombia illegal groups carried out 15 massacres this month, mainly of people they suspected of sympathizing with rivals.]]> 2021-06-10 00:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597116667 yanethpena1986 https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597120869 In Colombia a judge ruled that former Pres. Alvaro Uribe be freed from house arrest while he is investigated for possible witness tampering.]]> 2021-06-10 00:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/fabianculman71/team2/wish/1597120869