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FILE - President Javier Milei addresses lawmakers during the opening legislative session in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 1, 2024. Argentina and Colombia have agreed to end a diplomatic spat that escalated over right-wing Argentine President Javier Milei’s visceral attack on his leftist counterpart in Colombia last week, prompting the country to order the expulsion of Argentine diplomats. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

Argentina and Colombia avert a diplomatic crisis, downplaying their presidents’ war of words

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Colombia's President Gustavo Petro attends a press conference with members of the U.N. Security Council after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. President Petro on Sunday, March 18, 2024, suspended a cease-fire with one of a handful of armed groups with which he hoped to negotiate peace accords, saying its fighters violated the truce by attacking an Indigenous community.(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombia suspends cease-fire with faction of ex-FARC rebels following attack on Indigenous community

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Tourists take photos in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a battleground for fighting among drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, military forces and government-linked paramilitary groups, the area is now a tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of Medellin’s tourism boom

By Astrid Suárez - Associated Press

Colombia's Luis Diaz celebrates scoring his side's second goal against Brazil during a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup 2026 at Roberto Melendez stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) **FILE**

U.S. men to play soccer exhibition against Colombia on June 8 at FedEx Field

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FILE - Former Sen. Piedad Cordoba shares a laugh with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in San Isidro in southern Colombia, May 30, 2012. The left-wing Colombian congresswoman died on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. She was 68. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Piedad Cordoba, an outspoken leftist who straddled Colombia’s ideological divide, dies at age 68

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FILE - In this photo provided by the Colombian Police press office, police escort Álvaro Córdoba during his extradition to the U.S., Jan. 19, 2023, in Bogota, Colombia. Córdoba, the brother of a powerful leftist senator in Colombia, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, to federal narcotics charges as part of a sting in which he offered to introduce U.S. drug informants to dissident guerrillas who could help smuggle huge quantities of cocaine to New York. (Colombian Police press office via AP, File)

Brother of powerful Colombian senator pleads guilty in New York to narcotics smuggling charge

By Larry Neumeister and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Young soccer players train at the Club Bayer soccer school, founded by Luis Manuel Diaz, the father of the Colombian player and Liverpool striker Luis Diaz, featured on the wall at left, in Barrancas, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Luis Manuel Diaz was kidnapped on Oct. 28 by the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, or ELN. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Father of Liverpool striker Luis Diaz released after his kidnapping in Colombia by ELN guerrillas

By Astrid Suárez and Marko Álvarez - Associated Press

Liverpool's Luis Diaz ahead the Europa League Group E soccer match between Liverpool and Toulouse, at Anfield in Liverpool, England, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Liverpool’s Klopp to let Diaz decide when he’s ready to play again after kidnapping of father

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Liverpool's Diogo Jota celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal holding the jersey of teammate Luis Diaz during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, at Anfield in Liverpool, England, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. Colombian police continued their search for the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz on Sunday, one day after he was kidnapped with his wife near the country's border with Venezuela. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Colombia’s government says ELN guerrillas kidnapped the father of Liverpool striker Luis Diaz

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Liverpool's Diogo Jota celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal holding the jersey of teammate Luis Diaz during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, at Anfield in Liverpool, England, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Colombian police continue search for father of Liverpool striker Diaz

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People attend a vigil coined "Palestine Lives," to show support for the Palestinians in the latest Israel-Hamas war, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombian president’s statements on Gaza jeopardize close military ties with Israel

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A Venezuelan migrant with a broken ankle rests on the Tuquesa river´s edge after trekking for two days through the Darien Gap and making it to Bajo Chiquito, Panama, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. The man who did not want to give his name says he was helped by other migrants as he hobbled along the route with the help of a stick, and by the “adrenaline” of making it through the jungle. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Migrants pass quickly through once impenetrable Darien jungle as governments scramble for answers

By Juan Zamorano - Associated Press

A group of asylum-seekers from Ecuador wait in a makeshift camp after crossing the nearby border with Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif. Migrants continue to arrive to desert campsites along California's border with Mexico, as they await processing in tents made from tree branches. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

After a lull, asylum-seekers adapt to U.S. immigration changes and again overwhelm border agents

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Police patrol a neighborhood abandoned by residents due to fear of criminal gangs in Buenaventura, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. The Colombian government was hailed for signing a peace pact in 2016 with the country’s most powerful guerrilla force, the FARC, but authorities failed to carry out the agreement and seize control of the guerrilla's territories and mafias warred to take their place. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

President Gustavo Petro’s plan for ‘total peace’ in Colombia: Takeaways from AP’s report

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

A police officer greets a toddler in a neighborhood that has criminal gangs in Buenaventura, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023. Programs for the young people that gangs recruit are planned in Buenaventura and other cities, but the country's most powerful armed groups have grown stronger, according to experts, and bloodshed between rival groups has skyrocketed. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia’s president has a plan for ‘total peace.’ But militias aren’t putting down their guns yet

By Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Panama's Security Minister Juan Pino, left, and Panama's National Immigration Authority Director Samira Gozaine listen to questions during a press conference where they announced migration measures in Panama City, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. Panama will increase infrastructure in the jungle area along its shared border with Colombia known as the Darien Gap — as well as ramp up deportations — to contain a record-breaking flow of migrants passing through there this year, Gozaine said Friday. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Panama to increase deportations in face of record migration through the Darien Gap

By Kathia Martínez - Associated Press

FILE - Colombian paramilitary warlord Salvatore Mancuso is escorted by U.S. DEA agents upon his arrival to Opa-locka, Florida, May 13, 2008. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio called on the Biden administration Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, to reject Colombia's request for extradition of Mancuso after he was named a peace envoy in the South American nation. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)

Rubio urges Biden administration to reject a former warlord’s extradition to Colombia

By Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

England's Alessia Russo, center, celebrates after scoring her side's 2nd goal during the Women's World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between England and Colombia at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

England beats Colombia 2-1 to advance to the Women’s World Cup semifinals

By James Robson - Associated Press

Forest lines the Combu creek, on Combu Island on the banks of the Guama River, near the city of Belem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 6, 2023. The two-day Amazon Summit opens Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Belem, where Brazil hosts policymakers and others to discuss how to tackle the immense challenges of protecting the Amazon and stemming the worst of climate change. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Amazon nations seek common voice on climate change, urge action from industrialized world

By Fabiano Maisonnave and David Biller - Associated Press

Colombia's Catalina Usme, center, scores her side's first goal during the Women's World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Jamaica and Colombia in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair)

Usme leads Colombia to a 1-0 win over Jamaica and a spot in the Women’s World Cup quarterfinals

By Anne M. Peterson - Associated Press