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Colombia begins exhuming ‘false positives’ scandal victims

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In this Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 photo, Joaquin &quot;El Chapo&quot; Guzman is made to face the press as he's escorted to a helicopter in handcuffs by soldiers and marines at a federal hangar in Mexico City. Guzman's second prison escape in 2015 from a top security prison though a tunnel had embarrassed President Enrique Pena Nieto and made his capture a national priority. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Rio Treaty nations move to further isolate Venezuela

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar’

By Paul Davis

Members of the Indigenous Guard wait for the start of a protest march against President Ivan Duque, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. The indigenous group arrived in the Colombian capital Friday to take part in the upcoming Dec. 4th national strike and anti-government march. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia president extends olive branch to protesters

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Ana Maria Moya, who has been attending the recent protests in Colombia daily, poses for a photo at the university she attends in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. The 19-year-old college student said she’s been robbed numerous times, regularly experiences street harassment and is frustrated by a system where most crimes go unpunished and women deal with chauvinism and inequality. “I’m upset because life in Colombia has been difficult,” she said.(AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Protester voices: Colombians share their mounting discontent

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators rally in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. Authorities are maintaining a heightened police presence amidst scattered unrest in the aftermath of a mass protest that drew about 250,000 to the streets Thursday. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

First protester dies in Colombia unrest as marches press on

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. Authorities are maintaining a heightened police presence amidst scattered unrest in the aftermath of a mass protest that drew about 250,000 to the streets Thursday. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

AP Explains: Colombians join Latin America’s protests

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

An anti-government demonstrator waves a Colombian flag after he climbed up to a statue of South American independence hero Simon Bolivar during a protest at Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. Authorities are maintaining a heightened police presence amidst scattered unrest in the aftermath of a mass protest that drew about 250,000 to the streets Thursday. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia president opens national dialogue after protests

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Police attend an anti-government protester affected by tear gas during clashes in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Labor unions and student leaders called on Colombians to bang pots and pans Friday evening in another act of protest while authorities announced three people had died in overnight clashes with police after demonstrations during a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

The Latest: Colombia president opens ‘national conversation’

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Colombia ambassador criticizes State Department in recording

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Florida lieutenant governor leads trade mission to Colombia

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

FILE - This May 8, 2002 file photo shows a destroyed church in Bojaya, in Colombia's northwestern state of Choco. The church was destroyed on May 2, 2002, when rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, fired homemade missiles during fighting with paramilitaries killing more than a hundred civilians, mostly women and children. Family members of the victims held a ceremony Monday, Nov. 18, 2019, in Bojaya following a painstaking process in which scientists used DNA to identify the remains of 79 people initially buried in a mass grave. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Colombia church massacre victims ID’d with DNA put to rest

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Pedestrians walk alongside a highway that has been blocked by supporters of former President Evo Morales, in El Alto, Bolivia, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. In self-exile in Mexico after resigning under pressure from the armed forces, Morales says he would be willing to return to Bolivia, and his supporters are making a show of force in the streets while his party controls a majority in both houses of Congress. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The Latest: UN sends envoy to help with Bolivia crisis

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Jenifer De La Rosa, left, embraces her sister Angela Rendon after a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. The story of the sisters could be one of many involving children who were separated from their parents after the Nevado del Ruiz erupted, rescued from the rubble and later put up for adoption after no relative arrived to claim them. A genetic institute in Colombia's capital confirmed through DNA testing that Jenifer De La Rosa and Angela Rendon are sisters. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia adoptees find family decades after volcano tragedy

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Colombia defense minister quits amid firestorm over deaths

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Colombia's Interim Defense Minister and Armed Forces Commander Gen. Luis Fernando Navarro, center, and Colombia's President Ivan Duque, right, attend a graduation ceremony for police cadets in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Colombia's Defense Minister Guillermo Botero resigned Wednesday after a lawmaker accused him of failing to disclose that eight minors had been killed in a military operation against dissident rebels. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Bombing that killed 8 kids leaves Colombia president on edge

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

A man carries a load on his back as he works as a “lomo taxista,” or taxi of the lower back, outside a bus terminal in San Antonio, Venezuela, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Many who have little money to migrate, or prefer to stay closer to home, are settling in border towns like San Antonio, where the informal economy of black market goods and street vending provide them with some work opportunities. (AP Photo/Rafael Urdaneta)

Venezuelan border town swells with internal migrants

By LUZ DARY DEPABLOS and MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Former professional cyclist Armando Cardenas props himself up against his bike after pedaling from the towns of Madrid to Zipacon, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. In a decade-long career racing professionally, Cardenas never reached the same heights as the country's biggest cycling stars. Though with seven national titles and a medal at the Pan-American Games, the 37-year-old got to live his dream of cycling professionally. Like many of his fellow Colombian cyclists, he also made the decision to dope. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia’s cycling ascent undermined by widespread doping

By DAVIDDE CORRAN - Associated Press

Journalists watch former rebel leaders' appearance before Colombia's special peace tribunal to testify in an ongoing probe of their role in civilian kidnappings in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia ex-rebels testify on kidnappings at peace tribunal

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and CÉSAR GARCÍA - Associated Press

Colombia's President Ivan Duque listens to questions during an interview with The Associated Press at the CATAM air base in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. Duque's will speak before the United Nations General Assembly and is expected to condemn Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro as an abusive autocrat who is not only responsible for the country's humanitarian catastrophe but is also now a threat to regional stability for his alleged harboring of rebels labeled a terrorist group by the U.S. and European Union. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

AP interview: Colombia to denounce Maduro at UN meeting

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press