The Pigeon Express
An Instagram model has helped her mum escape jail by distracting the security guard, reports said. Colombian influencer Aída Victoria Merlano, 21, was reportedly able to execute her daring plan of breaking her mum out of prison by using a hidden rope and a getaway bike. During a trial this week, prosecutors heard that the […]
The United States is investigating potential cases of Havana syndrome in the South American nation of Colombia, US media reported. The investigation comes a week ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s scheduled travel to Bogota next week. US embassy staff in Bogota may have been injured by the mysterious illness, which causes a […]
Colombia confiscated a shipment of 3,493 shark fins which were to be illegally trafficked to Hong Kong from Bogota’s airport. Environmental authorities in the capital said the quantity of fins meant between 900 and 1,000 sharks between 1 and 5 meters in length would have to be killed. In some countries shark fins are sold […]
A curfew has been imposed in Bogota following a second day of anti-government protests in the Colombian capital. About three people who were apart of the demonstrations in the Valle del Cauca, near Bogota, were killed according to a statement issued on Friday by Colombia’s Minister of Defense Carlos Holmes Trujillo. The nationwide protests and […]