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Themes:🪙LatAm Political Risk Reset

494 signals for Colombia · Crisis

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia63d ago

Colombian engaged in clashes in Pacoa [10 sources]

6.5/10·GDELT Events Historical

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia63d ago

Hippo engaged in clashes in Colombia [10 sources]

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MilitaryCrisis🇨🇴Colombia63d ago

Counsel carried out assault in Colombia [10 sources]

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia64d ago

Colombian engaged in clashes in Pacoa [10 sources]

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia64d ago

Colombia engaged in clashes in Mercaderes [10 sources]

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MilitaryCrisis🇨🇴Colombia68d ago

Armed Group issued threats in Colombia [10 sources]

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MilitaryCrisis🇨🇴Colombia70d ago

Armed Group issued threats in Barranquilla [10 sources]

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EconomicCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇮🇷Iran41d ago

Colombia's Ministry of Finance conducted a short-term debt auction on May 19 seeking 900 billion pesos but received bids for only 856.5 billion, ultimately approving just 631.5 billion at a record 13.9% interest rate—the highest for one-year Treasury Securities since 2011. The failed auction, marked by a Bid/Cover ratio of exactly 1.0 (minimal demand buffer), follows a long-term bond placement at 15% rates earlier in the week, reflecting investor concerns about inflation expectations and fiscal sustainability under the Gustavo Petro government.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Bogota, Cundinamarca

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CriminalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia41d ago

A report by Colombian human rights organization Caribe Afirmativo has documented over 4,000 violent events targeting LGBTIQ+ people in 2025, including 270 homicides and femicides—averaging one death every 32 hours. Beyond killings, the report reveals 1,531 cases of domestic violence, 628 sexual assaults, and systematic online harassment, highlighting how violence begins within families and extends across digital spaces, while state institutions remain reactive rather than preventive.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Colombia (nationwide)

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CriminalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia41d ago

An armed group led by FARC dissidents attacked a convoy carrying Colombian Senator Alexander López on the Pan-American Highway in Cauca, shooting at his vehicle and briefly kidnapping and beating a security escort. López criticized Defense Minister Pedro Sánchez for failing to deploy adequate security forces despite the senator's warnings about the unguarded highway, while President Petro acknowledged the security gap and demanded permanent drone surveillance of the route.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Cauca, Cauca

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EconomicCrisis🇨🇴Colombia41d ago

Colombia's Air-e electricity distributor, serving 1.3 million customers across three departments, has seen its debt more than double since government intervention 20 months ago, reaching $2.1–3.9 trillion. The company loses over half its purchased energy to illegal connections and unpaid bills, while thermal generators supplying 35% of regional power operate at a loss and face imminent refusal to continue generation. The crisis disproportionately affects low-income populations in the Caribbean region, where 85% of users belong to lower income strata.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Barranquilla, Atlántico

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CriminalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇻🇪Venezuela 🇵🇾Paraguay41d ago

Colombian authorities identified the body of Yulixa Toloza, who disappeared on May 13 after undergoing laser lipolysis at an unlicensed aesthetic center in Bogotá's Tunjuelito district. The 40-year-old woman was found dead on a roadside in Apulo, Cundinamarca. Five suspects, including the unlicensed surgeon Eduardo David Ramos and aesthetics center owner María Fernanda Delgado Hernández, have been arrested in Venezuela on charges including forced disappearance, obstruction of justice, and destruction of evidence. Colombian authorities are pursuing extradition under the 1911 Bolivarian Extradition Treaty.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Bogota, Cundinamarca

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PoliticalCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇨🇺Cuba 🇨🇴Colombia41d ago

The US Department of Justice has indicted 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro and five military personnel for conspiracy to murder US citizens and the 1996 downing of two civilian aircraft operated by the anti-Castro exile group Hermanos al Rescate, in which four Americans died. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges in Miami, alleging that Cuban military forces fired missiles at the unarmed civilian planes in international waters. President Trump characterized Cuba as 'a nation in collapse' and declined to rule out military action, while Cuban President Díaz-Canel rejected the accusations as politically motivated fabrications.

6.2/10·eldiario.es·Miami, Florida

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CriminalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia41d ago

Colombian Senator Alexander López, a member of the governing Historic Pact coalition, was targeted in an armed attack on the Cali–Popayán highway when FARC dissidents fired on his convoy and briefly kidnapped one of his bodyguards. President Gustavo Petro attributed the attack to a drug trafficking group led by Iván Mordisco and named the site as one kilometer from a previous bombing by the same group that killed 21 civilians, highlighting ongoing violence in the region.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Cali, Valle del Cauca

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Supply ChainCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇪🇨Ecuador42d ago

Colombia's electrical system faces mounting strain as hydroelectric reservoirs sit at only 63% capacity ahead of an anticipated dry season beginning in August, according to Acolgen, the national generation industry association. The country confronts a firm energy deficit of 2.6%—potentially deepening to 6.8% by 2030—compounded by 4,000–4,500 megawatts of delayed generation projects and insufficient domestic natural gas, forcing reliance on costlier imports amid global supply disruptions. Industry leaders warn the situation demands immediate activation of thermal plants, national energy conservation measures, and accelerated development of regasification and solar projects to avoid blackouts during the forecasted El Niño phenomenon.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)

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Supply ChainCrisis🇨🇴Colombia42d ago

Colombia's agricultural regulator rolled out a new livestock tracking system (SINIGAN V6) nationwide without pilot testing, triggering widespread failures. Farmers in Antioquia report that approximately 60% of cattle cannot be transported due to platform errors, missing inventory records, and geolocation bugs that prevent drivers from completing required digital permits. Cattle auction volumes have dropped 30–40% in recent weeks, and livestock transporters and producers are threatening a national strike unless the system is repaired, risking increases in meat prices.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Medellin, Antioquia

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CriminalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇨🇺Cuba44d ago

Colombia has recorded 54 massacres and 233 deaths in the first five months of 2026, nearly matching the full-year 2025 toll of 256, according to Indepaz — marking one of the most violent starts to a year since the 2016 peace deal. Among the 59 social leaders killed is a former mayor and political movement coordinator, shot in an armed attack over the weekend.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Bogota, Cundinamarca

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇨🇺Cuba44d ago

Colombian military and regional authorities report that FARC dissidents operating in Meta and Guaviare departments are beheading citizens and coercing rural voters ahead of the presidential election. The former mayor of Cubarral and his government secretary, who was coordinating a presidential candidate's campaign, were killed in a motorcycle attack. Authorities confirm insurgent groups are forcing residents to register to vote and using violence to control the electorate in southern Meta.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Meta, Meta

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇺🇸United States 🇵🇸Palestine44d ago

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his Interior Minister, son, and first lady have been placed on the US OFAC sanctions list — an action Petro attributes to his ideological positions, while US Republican lawmakers allege links between his government and drug cartels.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Bogota, Cundinamarca

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia45d ago

Colombia's Electoral Observation Mission warns that 37 municipalities in Antioquia department—29.6% of the region—face extreme to medium risk of electoral fraud and violence during the 2026 presidential elections. Armed groups including the Gulf Clan and FARC dissidents are waging territorial wars in northern Antioquia and bordering regions, using drones, car bombs, and forced displacement to maintain control over drug trafficking and mining routes. The murder of journalist Mateo Pérez in Briceño exemplifies how criminal organizations now wield more power than state institutions in these zones.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)·Antioquia (department-wide), Antioquia

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Supply ChainCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇨🇦Canada45d ago

Colombia faces a critical energy security crisis as it confronts potential loss of nearly 8% of natural gas supply, rising gas imports covering a quarter of consumption, and severe financial strain in the energy sector amid government debt exceeding $9.2 trillion. A pending Canadian insolvency hearing could authorize early termination of Canacol Energy contracts, while the country simultaneously prepares for an expected El Niño phenomenon that historically forces reliance on gas-fired thermal generation for a third of national energy supply.

6.2/10·El Colombiano (Medellín)

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PoliticalCrisis🇨🇴Colombia 🇦🇷Argentina7d ago

How did the far right take over Latin America? Submitted by Joe Gill on Tue, 06/23/2026 - 10:02 US President Donald Trump has openly supported this far-right political wave, and now has a string of allies across the continent Colombia's presidential candidate for the Defensores de la Patria movement, Abelardo de la Espriella, speaks to supporters from behind bullet-proof glass at the Ventana al Mundo monument in Barranquilla, Colombia, 21 June 2026 (AFP) On An extraordinary political revolution in favour of the populist far right is sweeping Latin America : Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and now Colombia have all seen the left defeated. The far right has won elections along the entire Pacific coast, from the southernmost tip of Chile in Tierra del Fuego, all the way north to the Panama isthmus, bringing to a close more than two decades of a left-wing ascendancy, the so-called Pink Tide .

6.1/10·Middle East Eye·Barranquilla, Atlantico

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EconomicCrisis🇮🇳India 🇵🇰Pakistan 🇨🇴Colombia11d ago

UNITED NATIONS: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has urged the UN Security Council (UNSC) to take notice of India’s “brazen violations” of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), warning that New Delhi’s actions threaten Pakistan’s water security, regional stability and international peace. Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad delivered a letter from DPM Dar to the president of the UNSC, Ambassador Leonor Zalabata Torres of Colombia, drawing attention to India’s violations of the IWT. In a post on the social media platform X, the ambassador said the letter “draws urgent attention of the UNSC to two illegal Indian infrastructure projects linked to Chenab River system aimed at water diversion, which reveal India’s intention to illegally alter the treaty-governed flow and use of the Western rivers, weaponising water with dangerous implications for Pakistan’s water, food, and economic security as well as regional stability and international peace and security”.

6.1/10·Dawn·New Delhi, Delhi

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HealthCrisis🇺🇸United States 🇨🇴Colombia 🇨🇺Cuba+315d ago

<h3>Good morning, Chicago. ✶</h3><p>🔎 <b>Below</b>:&nbsp;Expectant mothers speak with us ahead of the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on whether babies born in this country to immigrant parents who don't have permanent status should continue to get automatic citizenship.</p><p>🗞️ <b>Plus</b>: Gov.

6.1/10·Chicago Sun-Times·Chicago, Illinois

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CriminalCrisis🇻🇪Venezuela 🇵🇾Paraguay 🇨🇴Colombia17d ago

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat The US military has killed the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in an airstrike, President Donald Trump has announced. "At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero," Trump wrote on social media. Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, was recognized as the longtime leader of Tren de Aragua.

6.1/10·Borderland Beat

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