List of Colombia articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Scrambles to Support Santos After Shock Defeat of Peace Deal
The setback in Bogota also dealt a blow to Washington, which had been banking on a settlement after spending more than $10 billion over 16 years to combat the FARC.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What the Hell Just Happened in Colombia?
The government’s peace deal with the FARC rebel group just met a Brexit-style demise. Here’s why it went off the rails.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Colombia’s Government Compromised for Peace
The government in Bogotá was winning the war. So why did it decide to give concessions to the rebels anyway?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside FARC’s Postwar Jungle Camp Finishing School
Leftist guerillas have been trekking across Colombia for classes on Marxist economics, cultural history, and how to run for office.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Ceremony Ending Colombia’s Civil War Nixed After DOJ Objections
The Obama administration wanted a big show in New York to ink Colombia's peace deal. But the Justice Department balked at letting terrorists and drug dealers into the country.
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A Colombian police officer stands next to a Metro bus burned by criminal gang members in Belen neighborhood, Medellin, Antioquia department, Colombia on April 1, 2016, during a 24-hour strike enforced by the criminal gang 'Los Urabenos' to the commercial activity and the transport system in different Colombian regions. 'Los Urabeños' handed out pamphlets threatening to kill anyone daring to defy their call to strike. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA / AFP / RAUL ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images) Colombia’s War Just Ended. A New Wave of Violence Is Beginning.
As the country declares peace after five decades of war against the FARC, a scramble for territory and control over the drug trade is emboldening new, anarchic gangs.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Politics Roils Colombia’s Tentative Peace Deal With the FARC
As the government of Juan Manuel Santos looks to finalize a peace deal — four years in the making — with rebels, opponents are trying to rip it to shreds.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Boob Jobs, Butt Lifts, and Other Plastic Surgery to be Banned for Colombia’s Teens
A new law will prohibit performing most plastic surgeries on minors under eighteen.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dramatic Rise in Zika Cases Among Pregnant Women in the U.S.
The looming public health crisis from the Zika virus in the U.S. just got a lot worse.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 From El Chapo to The Snail, Is It Time to Stop Celebrating the Arrests of Drug Kingpins?
Experts have long decried the kingpin strategy, but governments find it difficult to resist.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Colombia’s Pro-Lifers Are Objectively Pro-Zika
Colombia’s progressive abortion laws can stop the spread of Zika-linked microcephaly. But the conservative opposition has other plans.
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In this photograph taken on August 30, 2015, Indian locals peer at the spot where the mortal remains of Sheena Bora, the daughter of former Indian media executive Indrani Mukerjea, were found in the forest near Gagode village on Pen Khopoli road of Raigad district in central Maharashtra state. A former Indian media executive has been arrested on suspicion of murdering her daughter for having an affair with her stepson, Mumbai police said. Indrani Mukerjea is accused, along with two others, of strangling Sheena Bora to death in 2012 before dumping her body in a forest in western Maharashtra state and setting it alight. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Snoop Dogg Isn’t in Romania, But That Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t Be!
Snoop Dogg accidentally said he was in Romania this week. Now Romanians are encouraging others to visit.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Plan Colombia Shouldn’t Be the Price of Peace with the FARC
Colombia has undergone an economic transformation over the last 15 years — and if the deal to end the country's 50-year blows that up, it will be a disaster.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Espionage Economy
U.S. firms are making billions selling spyware to dictators.
