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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel applauds as Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, left, and ELN commander Antonio Garcia shake hands during a bilateral ceasefire agreement signing ceremony between Petro's government and the Colombian National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla, at El Laguito in Havana, Cuba, Friday, June 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Colombia government, largest remaining rebel group agree to 6-month cease-fire

By Andrea Rodríguez - Associated Press

Brazil's Matheus Martins celebrates after scoring his side's third goal against Tunisia during a FIFA U-20 World Cup round of 16 soccer match at La Plata Stadium in La Plata, Argentina, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Colombia, 10-man Brazil advance to Under-20 World Cup quarterfinals with big wins

Associated Press

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during the swearing-in ceremony for Gen. William Salamana as the new police chief in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. (AP Photo/John Vizcaino)

Colombia suspends cease-fire with holdout rebel group accused of killing 4

By Manuel Rueda - Associated Press

Texas National Guard soldiers install new rows of barbed-wire near a gate at the border fence in El Paso, Texas, in the early hours of Thursday, May 11, 2023. Migrants rushed across the border hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions were to expire Thursday, fearing that new policies would make it far more difficult to gain entry into the United States. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Migrants face new border reality as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat and Giovanna Dell'Orto - Associated Press

A young migrant holding swimming inner tubes stands on the Mexican-side of the Rio Grande river, from where migrants swim across to the U.S. side, in Matamoros, Mexico, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Pandemic-related U.S. asylum restrictions, known as Title 42, are to expire May 11. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Some scenes from the US-Mexico border, where immigration rules are set to change

By Anita Snow - Associated Press

Illustration on the kidnapping of U.S. nationals by the Maduro regime of Venezuela by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Venezuela’s Maduro regime abducting Americans at Colombian border

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Oriana Serra lines up with other migrantes to take a boat to Lajas Blancas after walking across the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S. in Bajo Chiquito, Panama Sunday, May 7, 2023. Back in Panama, as 34-year-old Oriana Serra neared the end of her Darien crossing with her two teen children, several men with pistols blocked their path, stealing the last of their money. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Migrants flow north to U.S. border ahead of policy changes

By Kathia Martínez - Associated Press

Federal officers remove handcuffs from men before releasing them through a gate in a border wall to Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in San Diego. Some asylum-seekers who crossed the border from Mexico are waiting 10 years just for a court date. The Border Patrol released people with notices to appear at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. The move saved the Border Patrol untold hours processing court papers, but it left the job to an agency that had no extra staff for the increased workload. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

U.S. to open foreign centers in bid to stop migration surge

By Rebecca Santana and Colleen Long - Associated Press

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks to supporters before presenting to Congress a proposed bill to reform the healthcare system, outside the Nariño presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. President Joe Biden is hosting Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the White House for talks next week. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Biden, Colombia’s Petro meet amid growing policy differences

By Astrid Suárez and Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Doug Whitney, left, looks at his son, Brian, in Manson, Wash., on Nov. 5, 2022. Doug inherited the same gene mutation that gave Alzheimer's disease to his mother, brother and generations of other relatives by the unusually young age of 50. Doug is a healthy 73, his mind still sharp. Somehow, he escaped his genetic fate. Brian, who also inherited the devastating family gene, has reached the fateful age of 50 without symptoms but knows that’s no guarantee. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Seeking Alzheimer’s clues from few who escape genetic fate

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

Female voluntary recruits attend a three month training program at a military base in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, March 6, 2023. After a 25-year ban, the Colombian army is once again allowing women to join its ranks through voluntary military service, which is a requirement for men. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Women enlist in Colombia’s army for first time in 25 years

By Astrid Suarez - Associated Press

Colombian environmental engineer Germán Viasus Tibamoso, owner of Tierra Viva, holds a Hercules beetle in Tunja, Colombia, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. The company transforms solid, organic waste, with the help of beetle larvae's digestive microorganisms, that transform the waste into a compost rich in nitrogen and phosphorous. Once adults, the beetles are sent to scientific labs and others to Japan where they are popular as pets. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Hard-working Colombian beetles clean garbage, retire as pets

By Astrid Suàrez - Associated Press

This photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Jose Irizarry in Cartagena, Colombia, in 2017. Irizarry accepts he’s the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he conspired with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle. But he says he won't take the rap alone, accusing long-trusted DEA colleagues of joining him in skimming millions from money laundering stings to fund a decade’s worth of high living. (AP Photo)

DEA’s most corrupt agent: Parties, sex amid ‘unwinnable war’

By Jim Mustian and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Illustration on the negative impact of Biden's green policies on South America by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

Biden’s climate agenda destabilizes Latin America

By Max Primorac

FILE - Local residents navigate the Amazon River near Leticia, Colombia, Sept. 7, 2019. Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first elected leftist president, will take office in August with ambitious proposals to halt the record-high rates of deforestation in the Amazon. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

New Colombian president pledges to protect rainforest

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press