Colombia
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Driving to South America’s northernmost tip in Colombia
The Week Recommends Sitting on the north edge of the Colombian coast, La Guajira is a place of great ‘beauty and strangeness’
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Gran Tomatina: Colombia’s Tomato Fight Festival
In Pictures Ten tonnes of inedible tomatoes take centre stage at the colourful annual event
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The Darién Gap migrant crossing
feature Record numbers hike deadly jungle pass from South America into Panama
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Trip of the week: birdwatching in southern Colombia
The Week Recommends Home to roughly 2,000 avian species, Colombia is a perfect location for birders
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The Week Unwrapped: child soldiers, gender disparity and saving techno
podcast Why are more child soldiers being recruited? What can be done to close the gender pay gap? And would Unesco status kill the cool of Berlin’s club scene?
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Ronaldo NFT expected to fetch $1m
feature And other stories from the stranger side of life
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Everything we know so far about the ‘Mu’ Covid-19 variant
feature WHO adds strain first discovered in Colombia to list of ‘variants of concern’
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Colombia erupts into violence amid pandemic tax rise protests
In Depth Police crackdown on demonstrations against poverty, unemployment and rising inequality leave 19 dead
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The Week Unwrapped podcast: Sporting genes, Colombia and orcas
In Depth What does Caster Semenya’s latest defeat say about gender? Is Colombia slipping into conflict? And are killer whales turning against us?
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Why Farc is threatening to tear up Colombia peace deal
In Depth President Ivan Duque offers bounty for capture of rebel leaders planning to resume armed conflict
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What next for the Venezuela crisis?
In Depth US Vice-president Mike Pence to meet opposition leader Juan Guaido as prospect of military intervention mounts
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US announces moves against Venezuela
Speed Read National Security Advisor piles pressure on Maduro, while possibly also inadvertently revealing plans to send US troops to Colombia
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Money mules swallowing wads of cash for Colombian drug gangs
Speed Read Police arrest 27 people from criminal networks smuggling dirty money from Mexico
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Who tried to assassinate Nicolas Maduro?
Speed Read Venezuelan president blames Colombia, right-wing opposition and exiles in Florida for failed drone strike
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