@Dragofix@veganism.socialThree Andean condor chicks hatch in Colombia as species nears local extinction https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/three-andean-condor-chicks-hatch-in-colombia-as-species-nears-local-extinction/<…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialHe'll probably get that Peace Prize next year.
The List of Countries Trump Is Threatening With War Keeps Growing
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/06/trump-wars-venezuela-colombia-cuba-iran/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump speaks with Petro amid nationwide Colombia protests against US after Venezuela intervention
Trump praises Colombian president’s ‘tone’ during call
and says they will meet soon,
while demonstrators rally across Colombia ‘to defend national sovereignty’
Venezuela to continue supplying oil to US ‘indefinitely’, White House says
Venezuela’s interim leader has said US forces’ attack to depose her predecessor
put a “stain” on the countries’ relations,
@UP8@mastodon.social🐘 Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251106-colombia-white-elephants-unfinished-infra…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialTrump and Petro make phone call. Petro explains Colombia actions against drug trafficking. Tone lowered.
Petro y Trump rebajan la tensión entre EEUU y Colombia tras una llamada de una hora: "Si no se dialoga, hay guerra"
https://www.e…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Colombia Bans All New Oil and Mining Projects in its Amazon–an Area the Size of Sweden"
#Colombia #Environment
@memeorandum@universeodon.comLatin America silent as Trump menaces Cuba, Colombia and Mexico (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/05/latin-america-silent-as-trump-menaces-cuba-colombia-and-mexico-00711983
http://www.memeorandum.com/260105/p160#a260105p160
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump has started the #ResourceWars
Trump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-on-return-trip-to-washington-predicts-demise-of-cuba-warns-colombia-threatens-greenland-00710410
@davidaugust@mastodon.online“‘Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document,’” Trump told NYT.”
And how, pray tell, does this former real estate developer think ownership of things like real estate is established?
From just signing a document. 🤦♂️
His mind is mush wrapped in malicious childhood disappointment.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia,
telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,
and he's not going to be doing it very long,"
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026 SheBelieves Cup at SI Stadium in NJ!
Canada vs Argentina at 12:30 p.m. ET United States vs Colombia at 3:30 p.m. ET
https://www.gothamfc.com/news/sports-illustrated-stadium-to-host-uswnt-shebelieves-cup
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump on return trip to Washington predicts demise of Cuba, warns Colombia, threatens Greenland (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/04/trump-on-return-trip-to-washington-predicts-demise-of-cuba-warns-colombia-threatens-greenland-00710410
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p65#a260104p65
@seav@en.osm.townRE: #Colombia 🇨🇴 and part of the
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialHet gaat gebeuren, de invasie van Groenland, en er is maar 1 manier om de NAVO te redden en dat is de VS er onmiddellijk uit smijten. Om te beginnen al die VS soldaten in NL de wacht aanzeggen. Binnen twee weken moeten ze hun boeltje pakken.
Pappen en nathouden gaat bij deze gasten niet werken. Willen ze nou echt een herhaling van Chamberlain?
'Annexatie Groenland zou einde betekenen van de NAVO'
@markhburton@mstdn.social<<Le atribuyen al sexto expresidente norteamericano Lord Palmerston, la frase según la cual “Estados Unidos no tiene amigos sino intereses”.>>
Ja ja, el sexto presidente fue John Adams. Palmerston fue canciller ("foreign secretary") britšnico.
Muchas veces le atribuye la expresión a Mefistófoles Kissinger.
El trasfondo de las tensiones entre EEUU y Colombia - Por Olimpo Cšrdenas y Ma. Fernanda Barreto – NODAL
@smurthys@hachyderm.io @servelan@newsie.socialTrump said 'we appreciate' that Colombia sells cocaine to the US | Snopes.com
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-colombia-cocaine-us/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Interpol announces a new global fight against illegal deforestation"
#Trees #Environment #Deforestation
@Dragofix@veganism.social‘Cocaine, gold and meat’: how Colombia’s Amazon became big business for crime networks https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/26/colombia-amazon-rainforest-cocaine-gold-crime-farc-cattle-cartels
@memeorandum@universeodon.comColombia sends armed forces to Venezuela border amid concern over refugee 'influx' (Harry Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/colombia-sends-armed-forces-venezuela-border-concern-refugee-influx
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p46#a260103p46
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s comments about Greenland, Colombia and Cuba offered a glimpse of how emboldened he feels after the quick capture of Nicolšs Maduro.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/politics/trump-venezuela-monroe-doctrine.html?smid=nytc…
@UP8@mastodon.social🧂 Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-19/cocaine-trafficking-in-colombia-moves-as-much-money-as-the-construc…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialIn Colombia, the Shangri-La solar project has launched, providing power for over 214,000 families annually and offsetting nearly 161,000 tons of CO2 emissions, while creating over 2,100 jobs. https://cleantechnica.com/2025/11/15/one-of-the-la…
@lilmikesf@c.imJason Bennett sold his condo in #SanFrancisco #California and bought another in #Colombia, and mother was understandably sceptical.
He’s still there and quite happy living in
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com @carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @cdarwin@c.imTrump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbncs3…
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaEs una auténtica pena que la respuesta del gobierno español no haya sido de apoyar sin fisuras a la población venezolana, sus vidas, su integridad y su derecho a existir en paz. Compartimos mucho mšs que un idioma, somos familia y deberíamos haberlo demostrado. Lo mismo que frente a las amenazas a Colombia, Cuba o México. Tenemos siglos de historia común. No podemos andarnos con tonterías cuando bombardean a un país hispanoamericano (ni a ningún otro)
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Pay to protect: Brazil pitches new forest fund at COP30"
#Brazil #COP30 #Environment
@servelan@newsie.socialThe very definition of suck-up:
Graham Backs Land Strikes On Venezuela, Colombia - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/graham-backs-land-strikes-on-venezuela-colombia/
@cdarwin@c.imEscalating the friction between Washington and one of its closest allies in Latin America,
Donald Trump said Sunday, the United States will slash assistance to Colombia because its leader, Gustavo Petro,
“does nothing to stop” drug production"
The U.S. president warned that Petro “better close up” drug operations “or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.”
Hours later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest U.S. strik…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUrban sprawl and illegal mining reshape a fragile Amazon frontier https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/illegal-mining-and-urban-sprawl-reshape-a-fragile-amazon-frontier/
@servelan@newsie.socialIf I was a foreign head of state, I wouldn't walk into a potential trap like that...
Trump, Peto hold call, Colombian leader to visit White House after "disagreements"
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/trump-colombia-petro-call-white-house-meeting
@markhburton@mstdn.social'The victim of the strike was identified by Petro as Alejandro Carranza, a Colombian fisherman from the coastal town of Santa Marta. He was ... killed when US forces fired at his boat on 15 September.
“Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing,” Petro wrote. “The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.”
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador
The United States plans to repatriate two alleged fishermen to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.
Facing questions about the legality of the strikes, the Trump administration has sought to justify the killings by claiming the U.S. is in “armed conflict” with Latin American drug cartels that are linked to Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro’s alleged e…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comColombia's Leader Accuses U.S. of Murder, Prompting Trump to Halt Aid (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/world/americas/trump-colombia-petro-aid.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p65#a251019p65
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown"
#Brazil #Environment
@servelan@newsie.socialColombia will use drones to destroy coca crops as it grapples with record cocaine production | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/colombia-will-use-drones-to-destroy-coca-crops-as-it-grapples-with-record-cocaine-production
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump calls Colombia's Petro an 'illegal drug dealer' and announces an end to US aid to the country (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-petro-colombia-drugs-us-aid-c3955b2ce351737119920741178e0567
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p19#a251019p19
@brichapman@mastodon.socialMongabay's environmental journalism packed a serious punch in 2025.
Their reporting exposed illegal Amazon activities, spotlighted conservation wins in Colombia and Mexico, and tackled wildlife trafficking. The impact? Real indictments in Brazil, policy recommendations, and action from major orgs like WWF.
Over 870 documented impacts—all empowering communities to protect their land and ecosystems.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump's mad hubris has been coming fast and furious.
On Air Force One, next to a grinning and bobbing Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Trump doubled down on the notion that the failed state of Cuba would be next to fall,
finding time to threaten Colombia, Mexico, and even Greenland.
This isn’t evidence of great power.
But it is more than just the egotistical impulse of an unchecked imperial president.
It is a deliberate strategy that involves the gleeful destructio…
@markhburton@mstdn.social'Hoy.. Venezuela, mañana.. Cuba o Colombia, pero también países europeos que no adopten los marcos políticos de EEUU –como apuntan algunas declaraciones de Trump y la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional – y que contengan recursos o territorios con rutas interesantes para Washington, como es el caso de Groenlandia, perteneciente a Dinamarca.'
Los bombardeos de EEUU en Venezuela y el secuestro de Maduro: un crimen internacional de agresión con consecuencias para Europa
@memeorandum@universeodon.com"Come get me": Colombian president's war of words with Trump escalates (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/05/trump-colombia-gustavo-petro-venezuela-maduro
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p1#a260106p1
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/18/detainees-drug-boat-us-venezuela-colombia-ecuador/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p41#a251018p41
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Counternarcotic experts say that Venezuela is a relatively minor player in global drug trafficking, acting as a transit country through which drugs produced elsewhere are smuggled.
"Its neighbour, Colombia, is the world's largest producer of cocaine but most of it is thought to enter the US by other routes, not via Venezuela."
Maduro says Venezuela open to US talks on drug trafficking - BBC News
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Atlas Renewable Energy energizes 201 MW solar park in Colombia"
#Colombia #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIs the US killing innocent people? (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/466136/trump-boat-strikes-murder-venezuela-colombia-gustavo-petro
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p42#a251025p42
@UP8@mastodon.social Brazil dismantles hundreds of illegal dredges in major Amazon mining crackdown
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/11/brazil-dismantles-hundreds-of-illegal-dredges-in-major-amazon-mining-crackdown/
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGuatemala’s eco defenders reel from surge in killings and persecution
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/guatemalas-eco-defenders-reel-from-surge-in-killings-and-persecution/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. Strikes Boat in Pacific, Expanding Operation Against Drug Running Suspects (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-drug-boat-strike-colombia.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p84#a251022p84
@servelan@newsie.social"Brussels files declaration of intervention, joining Brazil, Colombia, Ireland, Mexico, Spain and Turkey in supporting the case against Israel at the World Court"
Belgium joins South Africa's genocide case against Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/belgium-joins-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. Kills 3 on Boat Suspected of Smuggling Drugs for Colombian Rebels (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/trump-military-boat-strike-colombia.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p50#a251019p50
@cdarwin@c.imYou could be 100% certain that these boats were built out of pure cocaine,
-- and murdering everyone on them would still be murder.
Strong suspicion of a crime, for a law abiding society, leads to prosecution for said crime,
-- not blowing up boats and anyone on them or near them.
Congress has no power to legalize crime.
It cannot authorize mass rape.
It cannot authorize mass torture.
It cannot authorize mass murder.
Venezuela and Colombia a…
@servelan@newsie.socialLindsey Graham: Trump to Hit Colombia With 'Major Tariffs' | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lindsey-graham-trump-tariffs/2025/10/19/id/1231007/
@markhburton@mstdn.socialRubio, who accused governments of Colombia and Venezuela of being involved in or complicit with drug trafficking, has himself taken campaign money that likely came from drug traders, with whom he has had family connections.
Marco Rubio y su cuñado narco: la doble moral de EEUU en la lucha contra las drogas – NODAL
@cdarwin@c.imTrump continues to threaten Venezuela,
sending B-52 bombers to its coast,
deploying more warships to the Caribbean sea
and surging troops in the region.
As the administration continues to bomb boats it says are carrying drugs,
a group of independent UN experts now calls them
"extrajudicial executions."
Colombia's president says it's
"murder."
Trump is retaliating by ending aid to the country
and Bogota…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialColombia passes law to recognise victims of climate displacement.
It accords rights to them and responsibilities to government for both prevention and attention.
A bit unclear just what that will mean in practice
El ley: el Estado deberš reconocer a las víctimas de desplazamiento por cambio climštico | EL ESPECTADOR
@memeorandum@universeodon.comColombia accuses US of 'murder' after strike on boat (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8xg1jve73o
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p21#a251019p21
