Stories tagged with: colombia

• ANALYSIS: Venezuela planters see opportunity amid crisis

  by Karen Pearce, posted Friday, September 21, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  BOGOTA, Colombia (BP) -- As I meandered through a craft market in Bogota, Colombia, I struck up a conversation with a vendor who asked why I was visiting his country. I had just returned from four days in Cúcuta, the Colombian-Venezuelan border town where I witnessed the sad pilgrimage of thousands of people leaving Venezuela out of desperation and hunger.

  When I shared that with him, his face contorted into a mask of grief.

  "It is so horrible what is happening," he said, "They are our brothers." Read More

• Colombia approves 1st death by euthanasia

  by Katlyn Babyak/WORLD News Service, posted Monday, July 13, 2015 (9 years ago)

  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP) -- Colombian officials have approved the country's first legal death by euthanasia. After a week-long legal battle, 79-year-old Ovidio Gonzalez exercised his "right to die" at a medical clinic on Friday (July 10), ending his battle with terminal throat cancer.

  Colombia became the first Latin American country and one of several countries worldwide to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. But the government delayed approving regulations until April, and no legal procedures were performed until now. Read More