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England's Eric Dier scores a penalty shot pastColombia goalkeeper David Ospina during the round of 16 match between Colombia and England at the 2018 soccer World Cup in the Spartak Stadium, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

England finally wins penalty shootout at World Cup

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 12, 2018 file photo, Colombian singer Maluma, right, gestures next to Mexico goalkeeper Jose de Jesus Corona, left, at the end of a training session of the Mexico national soccer team at the World Cup in Moscow. Russian police say that $800,000 worth of valuables have been stolen from Maluma’s hotel room in Moscow while he’s visiting Russia to support the Colombia team at the World Cup. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Colombian singer at World Cup reports hotel theft in Moscow

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Supporters of Ivan Duque, candidate of the Democratic Centre party, celebrate the presidential election results in Bogota, Colombia, on Sunday. (Associated Press Photographs)

Ivan Duque wins Colombia’s presidential race

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

In this May 5, 2018 photo, Shaman Pablo Flores raises his hands to the sky before the beginning of an ayahuasca session, in Nuevo Egipto, a remote village in the jungles of Peru. Flores performs ayahuasca sessions for tourists. He does not charge for his services but does accept donations. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Psychedelic tourism thrives in Peru despite recent killing

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

Ivan Duque, presidential candidate for Democratic Center party, holds a campaign rally in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, May 20, 2018. Colombians will go to the polls on May 27 for a first round presidential election. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Ivan Duque, Colombia runoff leader, may be Trump ally

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

An electoral worker sets up a polling station in Bogota, Colombia, Saturday, May 26, 2018. Colombians will go to the polls on May 27 for a first-round presidential election. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

A glance at Colombia’s presidential election

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This November 2015 photo released Monday, May 21, 2018, by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shows cannons from the 300-year-old shipwreck of the Spanish galleon San Jose on the floor of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Colombia. New details about the discovery were released Monday with permission from the agencies involved in the search, including the Colombian government. Experts believe the ship's treasure is worth billions of dollars today. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution via AP)

Experts disclose new details about 300-year-old shipwreck

By MARK PRATT - Associated Press

Counter narcotics police officers uproot coca shrubs in Tumaco, southern Colombia, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

FARC violence, cocaine production spike in Colombia threatens election

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Friday, March 23, 2018, Colombia's James Rodriguez controls the ball during a friendly soccer match between France and Colombia in Saint-Denis, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

WORLD CUP: Since 2014 highs, a struggle for Colombia, James

By JAIRO ANCHIQUE - Associated Press

An police officer calibrates the sprinkles of a tactical vehicle use to spray herbicides before testing it on a coca field in Tumaco, southern Colombia, Wednesday, April, 18, 2018. According to U.S. officials, coca production in Colombia has gone up 50% in each of the last two years, with about 247,000 acres now under cultivation, and with each acre cultivated more productive than before counter narcotics officials are testing new ways to eradicate including the use of drones and tactical vehicles to spray. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia could use drones to fight cocaine production

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Venezuelans shout anti-Trump slogans during a protest against the Summit of the Americas, in Lima, Peru, Thursday, April 12, 2018. U.S. President Donald Trump had planned to attend the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima canceled his plans, choosing to stay in Washington to manage the U.S. response to an apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians in Syria. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

Venezuela collapse creates immigration wave in South America

By Federico Puglie — Special to The Washington Times

In this March 11, 2013, file photo, Jesus Santrich, member of the negotiating team for Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), speaks to journalists at the continuation of peace talks with Colombia's government in Havana, Cuba. The former leader of Colombia’s disbanded rebel army has been arrested, according to former FARC members and the chief prosecutor’s office on Monday, April 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)

Colombia arrests ex-rebel leader who partook in peace deal

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France's head coach Didier Deschamps reacts during a friendly soccer match between France and Colombia in Saint-Denis, outside Paris, Friday March 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Behind the glitz, France has problems to solve before WCup

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2018 file photo, Venezuelans cross the International Simon Bolivar bridge into Cucuta, Colombia, as rising numbers of Venezuelans are fleeing in a burgeoning refugee crisis that could soon match the flight of Syrians from the war-torn Middle East. The Trump administration is providing $2.5 million in emergency food and medicine to Venezuelan migrants in Colombia in the U.S.’ first action to alleviate a burgeoning humanitarian crisis that has reverberated across Latin America, according to a USAID statement on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

US to supply emergency food, medicine to Venezuelan migrants

By Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Feb. 22, 2018 photo, Venezuelan Grecia Sabala cries as she talks about her medical condition, after going through the border checkpoint into Cucuta, Colombia, on the border with Venezuela. Sabala crossed the border to get treatment for cervical cancer, at a specialized clinic in Cucuta. Each day cancer patients seeking chemotherapy, malnourished children and adults with untreated infections make the trek across the Simon Bolivar International Bridge to hospitals in Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Sick Venezuelans flee to Colombia in mounting refugee crisis

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Van Marwijk picks his 1st squad as Australia head coach

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FILE - This undated photo released by Colombia's National Police show officers escorting a man who police identify as Ecuadorean drug trafficker Washington Edison Prado after his April 2017 arrest on an indictment by a Florida federal court. Colombia’s chief prosecutor’s office said Saturday, Feb. 24. 2018, that it has extradited Prado to the United States. (Colombia National Police via AP, File)

Colombia extradites major drug suspect to US

By Associated Press - Associated Press

Former rebel leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, Carlos Antonio Losada, left, Pablo Catatumbo, second from left, and Rodrigo Granda, third from left, talk to a police officers that makes part of their security team before a press conference, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. Leaders of the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force said Friday they have decided to halt all campaign activities until their safety can be assured. Former guerrilla commander Rodrigo Londono, better known by his alias Timochenko, is running for president of Colombia and has been confronted by angry mobs hurling eggs and shouting &quot;Murderer!&quot; since launching his campaign. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Ex-guerillas suspend political campaigns in Colombia

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2016 file photo, police stand guard as a Venezuelan woman crosses into Colombia through the Simon Bolivar bridge linking San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela, with Cucuta, Colombia. President Juan Manuel Santos announced Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, that more than 2,000 new officers will be dispatched to police the hundreds of unpaved, dirt road crossings migrants are using to enter Colombia illegally. Colombia will also stop issuing border cards that currently allow 1.5 million Venezuelans to temporarily enter the nation to purchase food and medicine. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Colombia tightens border control as Venezuela migrants surge

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by Leslie Cork shows Tania Julin in Winter Springs, Fla. Julin's husband was kidnapped on Jan. 31, 1993 in the village of Pucuro, Panama, about 15 miles from the Colombian border. The families of six Americans kidnapped and killed in Colombia during the 1990s by the terrorist organization known as FARC are seeking potentially tens of millions of dollars in damages from banana giant Chiquita Brands International because of payments the company made to the group. Trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, in West Palm Beach federal court in lawsuits that accuse Chiquita of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act. (Leslie Cork via AP)

Families sue Chiquita over deaths of Americans in Colombia

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press