Over 4.000 residents from Antioquia had to flee the area in order to escape from the drug cartel and neo-paramilitary group Clan del Golfo, who has consistently been trying to take control of the region

Abelardo De La Espriella has become the new president-elect of Colombia in a tight run-off; the far-right lawyer was openly backed by US President Trump

Medellin has been designated as the World Book Capital for 2027 by UNESCO to reward investment in culture and social urbanism: the city saw a 542% rise in bookstores, many of which were transformed from former prisons and police facilities

FARC dissident organization EMC declared in a statement that a guerrilla attack that killed 20 civilians in the southwest was a “regrettable incident” resulting from “errors in military maneuvering during combat”, civilian deaths “were not premeditated”