Adriaan Alsema

Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella said he would declare an economic emergency and create a reconstruction fund for homes and small businesses that were destroyed in Monday's earthquake.

The director of Colombia's disaster management agency UNGRD said Thursday that at least 273 people died and that 377 were missing from the region that was struck by a 7.4M earthquake on Monday.

The government of Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella gave Prosecutor General Luz Adriana Camargo a white paper with more than 80 complaints over alleged corruption by the previous government.

Colombia's government drastically expanded the region affected by the August 10 earthquake in a second decree declaring an economic emergency.

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Oil thieves from north Colombia would be stealing at least 123,700 barrel of gasoline, diesel and naphtha, a month, claimed President Abelardo de la Espriella.

Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella called on the security forces to impose the law “like a giant with an iron fist, the iron fist of the State.”

President Abelardo de la Espriella said Thursday that Colombia's armed forces killed eight guerrillas of FARC dissident group EMBF in a joint operation.

Colombia's Finance Minister Miguel Gomez presented a budget proposal of COP634.9 trillion ($203 billion) for the coming year, a 14% increase compared to last year.

Internal fractures within Colombia's leftist opposition burst into the open following a vote by five representatives of the Historic Pact (PH) party