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It wasn't just bribery but an attempt to cover up his relationship with the UAC paramilitaries.
Colombia ex-President Alvaro Uribe found guilty in landmark bribery trial | Corruption News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2…

Colombia ex-President Alvaro Uribe found guilty in landmark bribery trial
The ruling, which Uribe’s legal team said he will appeal, is the latest in a long-running, hugely politicised case.

La justicia declara culpable al expresidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe por soborno y fraude procesal
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/colombia/justicia-declara-culpable-al-expresidente-colombiano-alvar…

La justicia declara culpable al expresidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe por soborno y fraude procesal
Por primera vez en la historia de Colombia, un expresidente enfrenta una sentencia penal en su contra. El caso contra el expresidente sacude al sistema político colombiano y genera un debate nacional sobre impunidad, justicia e institucionalidad.

Ex-President of #Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, convicted of #WitnessTampering bribery offense in long political #corruption trial...
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The Aftermath of Peace: The Impact of the FARC's Ceasefire on Forced Displacement in Colombia
Pedro Albarr\'an, Antonio Robles, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20662

The Aftermath of Peace: The Impact of the FARC's Ceasefire on Forced Displacement in Colombia
Colombia's prolonged conflict has made the country one of the most affected by forced internal displacement (FID) in the world. This study examines the impact of the FARC's 2014 unilateral and permanent ceasefire on FID. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits the timing of the ceasefire and the pre-conflict distribution of FARC presence across municipalities. Results show a substantial reduction in severe displacement episodes in affected areas, with effects that emerged grad…

My initial reaction to this was "Oh Fuck", it probably won't change until the season starts.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/114941185367673176

Asking “…all the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their rifles at humanity," is _not_ having “…urged U.S. soldiers to…incite violence,” in fact seems to be the opposite of a call for violence (it is a call to be peaceful).
Petro is the current President of Columbia.
https://www.

With the impending arrival of Typhoon #OpongPH (#Bualoi) and the recent protests against corruption in government-funded flood control projects, the recent release of the 2025 World Risk Report, with its topical focus on flooding, is very timely.
And to the surprise of no one, the

🛠️ Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
#energy

Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age
Colombia’s energy transition is not just playing out in policy papers — it’s unfolding in oil fields, coal towns, and courtrooms. Jacobin spoke with engineers, unionists, and President Petro himself about trying to realize a post-extractivist economy.

Yellow fever deaths reported among threatened captive monkeys in Colombia https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/yellow-fever-deaths-reported-among-threatened-captive-monkeys-in-colombia/

Yellow fever deaths reported among threatened captive monkeys in Colombia
An ongoing outbreak of yellow fever in Colombia is sickening and killing rare and threatened monkey species in captivity, a new study shows. Between February and May 2025, authorities reported eight deaths among four monkey species in southern Colombia’s Putumayo department, researchers note. Six of the individuals were in captivity: one white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons), […]

Technologies that promise to track, manage, and supervise workers,
increasingly using artificial intelligence,
are entrenched in the developing world, according to a new report by Coworker.org,
a labor rights nonprofit based in New York. 
Audits of more than 150 startups and regional companies based in Kenya, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and India showed
workplace surveillance is expanding in scale and sophistication, the researchers said.
While lar…

VC money is fueling a global boom in worker surveillance tech
A funding surge has given rise to technologies to track, analyze and manage workers — often in countries with little regulation.

Colombia's president calls US attacks on alleged drug boats 'act of tyranny'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8rjp178mno?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely (France 24)
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-colombia-narco-submarine-starlink

Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast. No drugs were found, but officials and regional security sources suspect it was a cartel test run for automated cocaine trafficking, navy and Western sources told AFP. 

"New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon"
#Amazon #Conservation #Environment

New conservation area protects 53% of carbon in northern Peruvian Amazon
A new regional conservation area has been created in Loreto, the largest region in Peru’s Amazon. The Medio Putumayo Algodón Regional Conservation Area is the fourth protected natural area in the Putumayo region, an area connected by the Putumayo River, which flows into Colombia. The Ministry of the Environment established the area on June 6 […]

Peru seizes record 4-ton mercury shipment in fight against illegal gold mining https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/peru-seizes-record-4-ton-mercury-shipment-in-fight-against-illegal-gold-mining/

Peru seizes record 4-ton mercury shipment in fight against illegal gold mining
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peruvian customs officials have seized a record-breaking shipment of illegal mercury, exposing a cross-border smuggling network fueling illicit gold mining in the Amazon. The 4-ton haul, discovered in June at the port of Callao, was hidden in gravel bags and bound for Bolivia, officials said on Thursday. Experts say it could […]

🛢️ Whistleblower Reveals Colombia’s Oil Spill Coverups
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Whistleblower-Reveals-Colombias-Oil-Spill-Coverups.html

Whistleblower Reveals Colombia's Oil Spill Coverups
Colombia's oil industry faces growing outrage over decades of environmental destruction and human rights abuses in the Amazon, as whistleblowers and indigenous communities demand accountability.

Reconstructing Subnational Labor Indicators in Colombia: An Integrated Machine and Deep Learning Approach
Jaime Vera-Jaramillo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12514 https://

Reconstructing Subnational Labor Indicators in Colombia: An Integrated Machine and Deep Learning Approach
This study proposes a unified multi-stage framework to reconstruct consistent monthly and annual labor indicators for all 33 Colombian departments from 1993 to 2025. The approach integrates temporal disaggregation, time-series splicing and interpolation, statistical learning, and institutional covariates to estimate seven key variables: employment, unemployment, labor force participation (PEA), inactivity, working-age population (PET), total population, and informality rate, including in region…

På två olika kontinenter – i Europa och Sydamerika – hölls på tisdagen ministermöten om utvecklingen i Gaza. Men tonen var mycket olika.
Rapporterar om Bryssel och Bogotš. https://www.dn.se/varlden/30-tal-lander-ska-forsoka-enas-om-atgarder-mot-israel/

Länder ska försöka enas om åtgärder mot Israel
Ett 30-tal länder möts i Colombia för att försöka enas om åtgärder mot Israel – vill garantera internationell rätt.

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/deforestation-illegal-roads-advancing-fast-in-colombias-largest-natural-area/

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area
In Colombia, the construction of illegal roads continues to damage protected areas. In Chiribiquete National Park, 525 hectares (1,297 acres) of forest were lost throughout 2024 up until March 2025 due to the opening of 81.5 kilometers (50.6 miles) of illegal roads within the reserve. In the Llanos del Yarí-Yaguará II Indigenous Reserve, located in […]

The conviction of Colombia’s ex-president is a sign of hope amid autocracy’s rise | Maria McFarland Sšnchez-Moreno
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/04/colombia-uribe-ex-president-conviction-autocracy

El Ídolo Billy vuelve a Chile este año
Billy Idol ha agendado fecha el 18 de noviembre en Movistar Arena como parte de la gira «It’s a Nice Day To…Tour Again!». La venta de entradas comienza el 11 de agosto a las 11:00 hrs.
La gira también pasarš por México, Brasil, Argentina, Perú y Colombia en latinoamérica.
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Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
Genjis A. Ossa, Luis H. Restrepo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15111 https://

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
This study investigates the impact of the pandemic on the most traded stocks in the Colombian stock market for the date of January 17, 2024. Based on the daily data of the most traded companies in Colombia for said date and covering a period general from 2015 to 2023, in a summarized way our analysis reveals that in the period 2015-2019, the return reached 5.70%, with a relatively low risk of 18.45%. However, in the following period 2016 -2020, although the yield decreased to 5.40%, the risk ex…

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
Sourojit Ghosh, Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Venkit, Avijit Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02937

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
A significant majority of AI fairness research studying the harmful outcomes of GAI tools have overlooked non-Western communities and contexts, necessitating a stronger coverage in this vein. We extend our previous work on exoticism (Ghosh et al., 2024) of 'Global South' countries from across the world, as depicted by GAI tools. We analyze generated images of individuals from 13 countries -- India, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya, Venezuela, Colombia, Indone…

It is only a matter of time until noem, homan, dhs, ice and potus realize dropping people out of aircraft is cheaper than housing or moving them.
Unless they already have.
Rumors are the US is engaging in death flights. Already there are some known flight paths of ice flights turning around over bodies of water.
The US Congress and international community seem to be the only things that can stop this.

Replaced article(s) found for econ.EM. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.EM/new
[1/1]:
- Reconstructing Subnational Labor Indicators in Colombia: An Integrated Machine and Deep Learning ...
Jaime Vera-Jaramillo

Enhanced water Cherenkov detector for soil moisture detection
J. Betancourt, C. Sarmiento-Cano, I. Sidelnik, H. Asorey, Y. Dom\'inguez-Ballesteros, L. Miranda-Leuro, Luis A. N\'u\~nez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08562

Enhanced water Cherenkov detector for soil moisture detection
This work evaluates the ability of a water Cherenkov detector to measure thermal neutrons and explores its application to soil-moisture monitoring. We study a NaCl-doped detector and model its response to (i) monochromatic thermal neutrons and (ii) the natural thermal-neutron flux expected from dry soil at the elevation of Bucaramanga, Colombia. The ambient flux is estimated with the ARTI framework, and the detector response is simulated with MEIGA in Geant4. Doping with NaCl introduces additio…

Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/08/texas-prepares-for-war-as-invasion-of-flesh-eating-flies-appears-imminent/

Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent
In Colombia, the parasites were caught expanding into endangered wild mountain tapirs.

Towards automatizing detection and quantification of intestinal metaplasia: a multi-expert comparative study
Fabian Cano, Mauricio Caviedes, Andres Siabatto, Jesus Villarreal, Jose Quijano, Alvaro Bedoya, Satish E. Viswanath, Angel Cruz-Roa, Fabio Gonzalez, Eduardo Romero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06991

Towards automatizing detection and quantification of intestinal metaplasia: a multi-expert comparative study
Current gastric cancer risk systems are prone to errors since they evaluate a visual estimation of intestinal metaplasia percentages to assign a risk. This study presents an automated method to detect and quantify intestinal metaplasia using deep learning models as well as a comparative analysis with visual estimations of three experienced pathologists. Gastric samples were collected from two different cohorts: 149 asymptomatic volunteers from a region with a high prevalence of GCa in Colombia …

While Venezuela is not a democratic example like Ukraine, the echoes of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as Trump moves US military assets toward the Venezuelan coast are certainly there.
"Maduro spoke to the Venezuelan people on Monday, asking them to prepare for an invasion.
"In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defence of Venezuela," Maduro said of the deployment, which he characterized as "an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat."
He deployed troops along the coast and at the border with Colombia. He also urged Venezuelans to enlist in a civilian militia.”
#Trump #Venezuela #Russia #Empire #War
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-us-attack-military-drug-cartels-1.7624235