By: Ingeborg Gruenwald Forty-one years after Colombia’s Palace of Justice went up in flames, its history returned to a courtroom, this time in Miami, nearly 1,500 miles away. On September 17, 2026, a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida found retired Colombian Colonel Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega not liable for the alleged torture […]
By: Emma Eckenhausen “Honestly, I had never heard of Liberia,” said Arin Garcia Yepes, a Colombian migrant deported by the United States to Liberia on August 20, 2026. Garcia Yepes is among a growing number of Latin American migrants who have been removed to African countries where they are not citizens and often have […]
By: Natalya Kitchin For many Caribbean countries, a major hurricane can worsen existing financial pressures and, in some cases, lead to a broader fiscal crisis. Government revenues may fall at the same time that emergency spending rises sharply. Roads, ports, schools, hospitals, and homes may need immediate repair, while existing sovereign debt obligations continue to […]
By: Evvie Kaczkowski The typically secluded region of San José del Palmar, Colombia, has found itself at the center of international attention after it became the epicenter of a magnitude-7.4 earthquake on August 10, 2026. At least 331 people were killed, and more than 406,000 are in desperate need of aid. Within hours of the […]
