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This undated photo shows Carlos Lehder in Colombia. Lehder was one of the leaders of the Medellin cartel that dominated the global cocaine trade in the 1980s. (AP Photo/File)

Former Medellin Cartel boss released in Colombia after a judge rules his sentence expired

Colombian authorities have released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking sentence issued in Colombia against the 75-year-old had expired. The ruling came Monday.
March 31
Media swarm Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, upon his arrival at El Dorado airport, after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Medellin Cartel victims demand truth and justice as cartel boss Fabio Ochoa walks free in Colombia

December 24, 2024
Fabio Ochoa, center, a former member of Cartel of Medellin, kisses a relative's hand upon his arrival at El Dorado airport, after being deported from the United States, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Legendary drug lord Fabio Ochoa is deported to Colombia and walks free after 20 years in US prisons

December 24, 2024
FILE- This undated file photo shows Fabio Ochoa Vasquez. (AP Photo/File)

Legendary Medellin cartel drug lord released from US prison after serving 25 years

December 5, 2024
A cable car lays on the ground after it fell in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. At least one person was killed and 12 others were injured when the cable car collapsed while approaching a station, local authorities said. (AP Photo/Fredy Amariles)

The collapse of a cable car in Colombia kills 1 person and injures 20

June 26, 2024

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Colombia frees almost 150 illegally trafficked tortoises

The Colombian wildlife protection agency Cardique announced the release of 148 morrocoy turtles that had been illegally stolen and sold as pets, to their natural habitat in a reserve in the city of Cartagena. The specimens had been previously rescued and rehabilitated as part of a plan to combat illegal animal trade.
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FILE - Federico Gutierrez, presidential candidate representing the Team for Colombia coalition, talks during a presidential debate at the El Tiempo newspaper building in Bogota, Colombia, May 23, 2022. On Monday, April 1, 2024, Gutierrez, the mayor of Colombia’s second largest city Medellín, issued a six-month ban on prostitution in some of the city’s most famous neighborhoods, arguing that it is a necessary step to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Mayor of Medellín, Colombia, bans prostitution in neighborhoods that are popular with tourists

April 2, 2024
Tourists take photos in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a battleground for fighting among drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, military forces and government-linked paramilitary groups, the area is now a tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of Medellin’s tourism boom

February 22, 2024
FILE - Former Sen. Piedad Cordoba shares a laugh with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in San Isidro in southern Colombia, May 30, 2012. The left-wing Colombian congresswoman died on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. She was 68. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Piedad Cordoba, an outspoken leftist who straddled Colombia’s ideological divide, dies at age 68

January 20, 2024
FILE - Founder and organizer Tou Ger Xiong, front, poses with a group of Hmong dancers during Hmong Minnesota Day at the Minnesota State Fair, in Falcon Heights, Minn., Sept. 6, 2021. Colombian prosecutors said on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, three people have been jailed in the kidnapping and killing of a Xiong who was found dead on Dec. 11, 2023, near Medellín after going out to meet a woman he reportedly met on social media. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP File)

3 people charged with murdering a Hmong American comedian last month in Colombia

January 18, 2024
Alexis Llanos, left, his partner Diomaris Barboza, and their children Alexa, 7, and Alexis, 3, pose for a picture outside the home they moved into in October 2023, five years after fleeing Venezuela to Colombia to escape death threats and political persecution, in Lehigh Acres, Fla., Dec. 27, 2023. The family is among the first migrants allowed into the U.S. under the Biden administration's new "safe mobility offices," intended to streamline the U.S. refugee process so migrants don't give up and pay smugglers to make the journey north. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A new immigration policy that avoids a dangerous journey is working. But border crossings continue

January 5, 2024
Founder and organizer Tou Ger Xiong, front, poses with a group of Hmong dancers during Hmong Minnesota Day at the Minnesota State Fair, Sept. 6, 2021, in Falcon Heights, Minn. On Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023, Colombian authorities were investigating the alleged kidnapping and murder of the Hmong American comedian and activist Xiong, who was found dead Monday, Dec. 11, in a wooded area of the northern city Medellín. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP)

Colombia investigates the killing of a Hmong American comedian and activist in Medellin

December 13, 2023
FILE - Colombian artist Fernando Botero gives an interview in New York, Oct. 30, 2013. Botero died on Sept. 15, 2023 in Monaco, according to his daughter Lina Botero who confirmed his passing to Colombian radio station Caracol. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, known for his inflated forms, has died at age 91

September 15, 2023