Colombia’s Vice President Francia Márquez honored at Harvard

Colombia’s Vice President Francia Márquez honored at Harvard

Boston. Afro-Colombian Vice President Francia Márquez Mina has received the WEB Du Bois Medal from Harvard University. The award ceremony took place in the Sanders Theater at Harvard University. Márquez, who also heads the Ministry of Equality and Equality, received the medal for her outstanding contributions to African and African American culture. Previous recipients of … Read more

Argentine cinema the most awarded among Latin films at the San Sebastián Festival

Notistarz-Photo-Press San Sebastian Montevideo, October 3 (Notistarz).- Argentine cinema, with three productions, was the most represented in Latin America in a list dominated by Spanish and European productions in the recent San Sebastián Festival in its 72nd editionLatamCinema highlighted. In the Horizontes Latinos section, the Horizontes Award went to the new film by Argentinian Luis … Read more

North Korea saw football as an opportunity to improve its image, U-20 Women’s World Cup

North Korea saw football as an opportunity to improve its image, U-20 Women’s World Cup

Members of the North Korean under-20 women’s soccer team greet people from a vehicle upon arrival in Pyongyang. Photo: AFP – KIM WON JIN The soccer players of the North Korean U-20 team received a triumphant welcome in their country after having won the World Cup of the category held in Colombia. North Korean women’s … Read more

A battle of coordinates: Colombia finalizes its defense in the arbitration for the galleon ‘San José’

A battle of coordinates: Colombia finalizes its defense in the arbitration for the galleon ‘San José’

Before the end of the year, Colombia must present to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, based in The Hague, its response – the last one before the start of the hearings – to a lawsuit filed by the American company Sea Search Armada, which claims a part of the treasure of the shipwrecked galleon Saint … Read more

Petro criticises governments that “applaud genocide” in Gaza before the UN

Petro criticises governments that “applaud genocide” in Gaza before the UN

Bogotá. Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday criticized the world’s governments before the United Nations General Assembly for being “incapable” of effectively combating climate change, in a speech in which he also singled out those who “applaud the genocide” in Gaza. The high-level meeting of the 193 member nations of the United Nations began on … Read more

ELN claims responsibility for attack on Colombian military base – 2024-09-26 12:55:05

ELN claims responsibility for attack on Colombian military base
 – 2024-09-26 12:55:05

REFERENCE | The National Liberation Army (ELN). The guerrilla of the National Liberation Army (ELN) claimed responsibility this Friday for the attack on a military base in the Colombian department of Arauca which left three dead and 26 injured and for which the Government suspended peace talks with that group. He Eastern War Frontwhich is … Read more

Colombia takes the lead in the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration

Colombia takes the lead in the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration

During the IV Ministerial Meeting, Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo described the actions and measures his country is taking on this issue to the delegates of the body made up of 22 countries in the Americas. Among these, he mentioned the tripartite mechanism currently in place with the United States and Panama to respond … Read more

Petro attributes the Arauca attack to the ELN: “It is practically an action that closes a peace process with blood”

Petro attributes the Arauca attack to the ELN: “It is practically an action that closes a peace process with blood”

At the beginning of Tuesday night, during the inauguration of a new magistrate in the Superior Council of the Judiciary, President Gustavo Petro has left the main negotiation of his policy of total peace in suspense. “The consequences of the actions and the flow of history today bring us a dramatic event, repeated in our … Read more

Colombia through to the quarter-finals of the U-20 World Cup!

Colombia through to the quarter-finals of the U-20 World Cup!

Enlarge Image × Bogotá, September 11, 2024. A deep pass from Sintia Cabezas left Linda Caicedo alone in front of South Korea’s goalkeeper, Seobin Woo. A shot with an inside edge, which crashed off one of the goalkeeper’s legs and scored. That was the goal with which the national team beat the Asian team 1-0 … Read more

Francisco Lopera, a leading physician in the fight against Alzheimer’s, dies

Francisco Lopera, a leading physician in the fight against Alzheimer’s, dies

He world of science is mourning the death of the Colombian Francisco Lopera Restrepowho was a doctor who led the fight against the Alzheimer. “With profound sadness, admiration and gratitude, we say goodbye today (Tuesday) to an invaluable human being, a rigorous professional, an inspiring professor and a curious and creative researcher who paved a … Read more