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Amazon countries sign forest pact, promising to coordinate disaster response

Luis Jaime Acosta, Reuters
Posted at Sep 07 10:20 AM

Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world's largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle. Read more »

US, Colombia aim to restore Venezuela's 'democratic heritage'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 03 07:48 AM

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo followed up a trip to Brazil to meet with new far right President Jair Bolsonaro with a visit to Colombia for talks on the migrant exodus from neighboring Venezuela, and its regime led by President Nicolas Maduro. Read more »

Duque becomes Colombia's president, promising to unite divided nation

Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb, Reuters
Posted at Aug 08 06:26 AM

Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque was sworn in to office on Tuesday, pledging to unite a divided nation behind his plan to toughen a peace accord with Marxist rebels and rekindle economic growth.   Read more »

Pro-business candidate wins Colombian presidential election

Helen Murphy and Stevan Grattan, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 06:39 AM

Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque won Colombia's presidential election on Sunday, beating leftist Gustavo Petro in a victory that reassured investors but raised the prospect of changes to a landmark peace accord with Marxist rebels. Read more »