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Argentina's Lionel Messi, second left, walks past coach Lionel Scaloni, left, during a training session of the national soccer team at Barradao stadium, in preparation for the Copa America soccer tournament in Salvador, Brazil, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. On Saturday, Argentina will face Colombia for the first Group B game of the South American tournament. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Argentina, Colombia open Copa America looking to end drought

By DÉBORA REY - Associated Press

Former FARC rebel Jesus Santrich talks to journalists after swearing in to take his congressional seat in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Santrich was unable to take up his seat in congress last year when he was jailed awaiting extradition to the U.S. on drug charges, but was released in a decision by the special peace tribunal. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia ex-rebel, wanted in US, sworn in as congressman

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Oscar Rivera, a 43-year-old social activist from the southern state of Narino who says he has received death threats, wears a protective mask as he works on an art installation by Colombia artist Doris Salcedo that features the names of killed leftist activists in Plaza Bolivar in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Monday, June 10, 2019. Dozens of activists, who themselves have received death threats, are writing the names of the victims using shards of glass. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Artist pays homage to murdered Colombia rights activists

By CESAR GARCIA and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Venezuelans showing their IDs line up to cross the Simon Bolivar international bridge into Cucuta, Colombia, Saturday, June 8, 2019. Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro ordered the partial re-opening of the border that has been closed since February when he stationed containers on the bridge to block an opposition plan to deliver humanitarian aid into the country. (AP Photo/Ferley Ospina)

Thousands pour into Colombia as Venezuela reopens border

By MANUEL RUEDA and LUZ DARY DEPABLOS - Associated Press

Venezuela's opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, speaks with the media members after a meeting of &quot;Plan Pais&quot; or Country Plan at University Catholic Andres Bello in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, May 24, 2019.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

US emergency aid for Venezuela to be distributed in Colombia

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Former rebel leader Seuxis Hernandez, also known as Jesus Santrich, is helped down a flight of stairs after a press conference at the FARC party headquarters after he was freed from his second detention in connection with a drug case in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, May 30, 2019. Colombia's Supreme Court decided that the former FARC peace negotiator, who is accused of conspiring to ship cocaine to the U.S., should be released and determined that his case is part of that court's jurisdiction because his post as a legislator. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia ex-rebel freed from second detention in drug case

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2018 file photo, Army Commander Gen. Nicacio Martinez Espinel, right, salutes during a swearing-in ceremony for the new military and police commanders, in Bogota, Colombia. New evidence has emerged linking Martinez Espinel to the alleged cover up of civilian killings more than a decade ago. The documents, provided to The Associated Press by a person familiar with an ongoing investigation into the extrajudicial killings, come as Martinez Espinel faces mounting pressure to resign over orders he gave troops this year, 2019, to step up attacks in what some fear could pave the way for a return of serious human rights violations. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

New evidence links Colombia army chief to civilian slayings

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

An Oophaga lehmanni &quot;Red&quot; stands at the “Tesoros de Colombia” frog breeding center in Cundinamarca, Colombia, Monday, May 20, 2019. The species, that is poisonous in the wild but in captivity does not consume the food it needs to become toxic, is so rare that collectors refer to it as &quot;the holy grail. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombian breeds rare frogs to undermine animal traffickers

By MANUEL RUEDA and CESAR GARCIA - Associated Press

Arelys Pulido holds her two-month-old daughter Zuleidys Antonella Primera after she had her feet prints taken for her birth certificate at the Erazmo Meoz hospital in Cucuta, on Colombia's border with Venezuela, Thursday, May 2, 2019. Colombia's government grants newborns like Zuleidys Antonella Primera, born of illegal Venezuelan migrants, full health care during the first year of life and allows them to enroll in school, but experts on statelessness fear that if Venezuela's crisis drags on for years, they could approach adulthood without key rights such as the ability to travel legally, buy property or get married. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuela exodus raises worries of babies being stateless

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself the interim-president of Venezuela, squares his suit jacket before the start of an interview, at the Popular Will party's headquarters, in Caracas, Venezuela, May 10, 2019. Guaidó wants to jumpstart his movement to oust Nicolas Maduro following last week's failed military uprising. In an interview with The Associated Press, he promised to persevere in the face of a deepening crackdown by Maduro's government.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Venezuela opens sea, land access with Aruba, Brazil

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Gunmen attack prominent Colombian environmental activist

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A woman holding her pet crosses illegally into Colombia near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, on the border with Venezuela. The border area near Cucuta was peaceful Wednesday, even as Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaidó's call to fill streets around the nation but security forces showed no sign of backing his cry for a widespread military uprising, instead dispersing crowds with tear gas as the political crisis threatened to deepen. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Shootout rattles nerves near busy Venezuela border bridge

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Authorities: Death toll rises to 30 in Colombia landslide

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A same sex couple kiss a rose during a &quot;Kiss-a-thon,&quot; as a form of protest for LGBT rights in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, April 17, 2019. The event was held at the same Andino shopping mall where days ago two gay men were harassed by a customer who lured police into fining them for &quot;exhibitionism.&quot; (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombians stage kiss-a-thon in support of LGBT rights

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, greets a young Venezuelan migrant at a migrant shelter, as he's given a tour by Colombian Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez, behind, and Colombian President Ivan Duque, not in picture, in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela, Sunday, April 14, 2019. Pompeo is on a four-day Latin American tour, making his final stop at the Colombian border to meet with representatives of Venezuelan refugees. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

US Secretary of State visits Venezuelan migrants in Colombia

By MARKO ALVAREZ and FERNANDO VERGARA - Associated Press

A Venezuelan migrant waits for traffic to come to a standstill so that she can ask drivers for spare change, in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, April 4, 2019. According to U.N. children's agency UNICEF, as a result of the Venezuela migrant crisis, 1.1 million children will need help across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2019. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

UNICEF: Venezuelan children on the move need help

By CESAR GARCIA - Associated Press

Miami social media influencer arrested in Colombia probe

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

California man jailed in Colombia for seeking sex with girls

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In this March 19, 2019 photo, Venezuelan citizens stand outside their consulate after finding it closed in Bogota, Colombia. Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro has severed ties with the neighboring Andean nation where over a million of his compatriots have fled in recent years, recalling all his diplomats and leaving the consulate and embassy buildings closed. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuelan power struggle creates diplomatic duel abroad

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Magnitude 6.1 quake rattles nerves in southwestern Colombia

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