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Prosecutors throw the book at money launderer for Venezuela

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

An elderly woman is injected with a dose of China's Sinovac Biotech CoronaVac vaccine for COVID-19 at the Jose Joaquin Vargas Special Women's Center in Sibate, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. The geriatric center specializing in treating psychiatric patients began vaccinating patients over 80 against the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia 1st in Americas to get vaccines from UN program

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UN registers steep rise in murders of Colombian activists

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 3, 2020 file photo, Veneuzuelan security forces guard the shore and a boat in which authorities claim a group of armed men landed in the port city of La Guaira, Venezuela, calling it an armed maritime incursion from neighboring Colombia. Yacsy Álvarez, a woman who was charged in Colombia with helping organize the attempted armed invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist government, says Colombian authorities were aware of the plotters’ movements and did nothing to stop them and that she’s being made a scapegoat for the sins of others who abandoned the would be rebels. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Jailed suspect in anti-Maduro plot blames Colombia, Guaido

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope hails Colombia for giving needy Venezuelans protection

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Haitian migrants sit on the grass at a migrant camp amid the new coronavirus pandemic in San Vicente, Darien province, Panama, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Panama is allowing hundreds of migrants stranded because of the pandemic, to move to the border with Costa Rica after just reopening its land borders. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Migration through Panama resumes after pandemic lockdown

By JUAN ZAMORANO - Associated Press

Community leader Luz Nelly Santana, right, meets with other leaders who like her have received death threats in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. “I get death threats on the phone every month,&quot; Santana said, &quot;and once a man entered my office and said he was going to kill me.” (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Report: Colombia failing to protect human rights defenders

By REGINA GARCIA CANO - Associated Press

A hippo warning stands on the shore of a lagoon near Doral, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The offspring of hippos illegally imported to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s are flourishing in the lush area and experts are warning about the dangers of the growing numbers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Fear and love surround Escobar’s hippos thriving in Colombia

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and FERNANDO VERGARA - Associated Press

Venezuelan migrant Katerine Valero, 29, and her children Dariusca, 8, left, and Wilkerson, 4, rest outside a strip mall, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021. Colombia said Monday it will register hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants and refugees currently in the country without papers, in a bid to provide them with legal residence permits and facilitate their access to health care and legal employment opportunities. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Venezuelan migrants welcome new Colombian protection measure

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2019 file photo, Venezuelans cross illegally into Colombia near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge, seen from La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia. President Ivan Duque said on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, that Colombia needs greater cooperation from the international community to carry out a vaccination plan against COVID-19 for the estimated million Venezuelan migrants without documents who are in the country, who are so far excluded from the new coronavirus vaccination plan. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombia will legalize undocumented Venezuelan migrants

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Francisco Vera, 11, who is well-known in Colombia for his environmental campaigns and defense of children's rights, gives an interview in Villeta, Colombia, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. The 11-year old activist who received a death threat over Twitter, says that he will continue to lead campaigns and urged other young people to use social media to “support causes they believe in.” (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Death threat against 11-year-old activist outrages Colombia

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Despite restrictions to limit the spread of COVID-19, thousands crowd Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Brazil neighbors limit travel to halt virus strain’s spread

By DAVID BILLER and BERT WILKINSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2019 file photo, Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo speaks to reporters after a bilateral meeting at the Department of State in Washington. Colombian officials say Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died from complications of COVID-19. He was 69. President Ivan Duque said in a statement that Holmes Trujillo died early Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 adding that he “couldn’t express the pain” he was feeling over the news. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Colombia’s defense minister dies from COVID-19 at age 69

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Former Colombian guerrillas shed their decades-old name

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

File-This March 8, 2020, file photo shows the United States forward Carli Lloyd (10) during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup soccer match against Spain in Harrison, N.J. Far from deterred by a lengthy layoff after getting her left knee scoped, Lloyd is back with a steadfast resolve as the U.S. national team pushes toward the Tokyo Olympics. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)

Lloyd rebounds from knee injury to play a full 90 for US

By ANNE M. PETERSON - Associated Press

A healthcare worker collects a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. Colombia's capital city is reimposing lockdown measures on Tuesday as new coronavirus infections rise around the country. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia brings back lockdowns as coronavirus cases rise

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Martin Londoño, owner of MATT, an electric wheelchair tour company talks during an interview in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Londoño, 31, started to work on the hand-cycles four years ago in a bid to improve his own mobility. He lost the use of his legs after breaking his spinal chord in a traffic accident at age 18. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Electric wheelchair tours show Colombian city from new angle

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Report: Inmates killed in Colombia riot shot intentionally

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Ecuador's players celebrate after Roberto Arboleda scored his side's opening goal against Colombia during a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 in Quito, Ecuador, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. (Rodrigo Buendia, Pool via AP)

Brazil tops World Cup qualifying, Ecuador routs Colombia 6-1

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Uruguay's Luis Suarez celebrates after scoring from the penalty spot his side's second goal against Colombia during a qualifying soccer match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 at the Metropolitano stadium in Barranquilla, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Brazil leads WCup qualifying group, Uruguay beats Colombia

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press