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: 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 […]
By: Camilo Daza Manga For decades, Colombia has been a cornerstone of U.S. counternarcotics strategy in Latin America — a major non-NATO ally, the fifth-largest U.S. export market in the hemisphere, and the source of 85% of actionable intelligence used by U.S. naval forces to seize illicit narcotics in the Caribbean Sea between January 2024 […]
Photo Credit: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group/Getty Images By: Camila Real, 2L Colombia has become one of the first countries to pass a health tax on junk food. Its new Tax Reform Bill imposes a gradual phase of tax increases on ultra-processed foods and foods high in salt and saturated fats. Ultra-processed foods will incur an […]
