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At least 13 people are dead and more than 60 injured in two separate attacks in Colombia on Thursday, after FARC dissidents brought down a police helicopter with a drone in the department of Antioquia and a truck bomb exploded outside the central air force base in Cali, Valle del Cauca.

At least 19 people have died and more than 70 injured in two separate attacks in Colombia on Thursday, after FARC dissidents brought down a police helicopter with a drone in the department of Antioquia and a truck bomb exploded outside the central air force base in Cali, Valle del Cauca.

The United States Navy is preparing to dispatch an amphibious squadron to the southern Caribbean as part of the show of force against Latin American drug cartels. As Colombia braces for the political and economic fallout of a potential military escalation in Venezuela, the presence of this combat squadron comes at a sensitive moment for the hemisphere: Colombian President Gustavo Petro has issued sharp warnings over the consequences of an invasion of Venezuela, while former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez was released from house arrest this week, quickly reasserting himself on the national stage with renewed political vigor.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro stated Tuesday night that he had sent a message to U.S President Donald Trump through intermediaries, warning that a military strike against neighboring Venezuela could drag his country toward a regional conflict.

The Caribbean is bristling with US warships. U.S President Donald Trump has dispatched three guided-missile destroyers to waters off Venezuela, reviving memories of past interventions and fueling speculation that Washington is preparing a showdown with the regime’s Nicolás Maduro.

Christopher Landau, the United States Deputy Secretary of State, is scheduled to arrive in Bogotá on Tuesday to attend Wednesday’s funeral of Colombian Senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, whose death on Monday from wounds sustained in the June 7 assassination attempt has plunged Colombia back to the darkest days of political violence.

Miguel Uribe Turbay, the Colombian Senator whose political career embraced a family legacy and marked by a personal history of loss, died early Monday in Bogotá, more than two months after being shot at close range during a campaign rally. He was 39.

The sentencing of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez to 12 years of house arrest has not only stunned the nation but reignited a familiar debate in world history: when does justice become a weapon of politics?

In the gold-laced folds of a mountain range that cuts through Sur de Bolívar, more than 7,500 people have been locked inside their homes for nearly three weeks, caught between two warring factions in a deepening humanitarian crisis. With schools closed and food growing scarce, the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla has turned the mountainous San Lucas range into a battlefield for a chilling form of warfare: drones.

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez filed a criminal complaint on Friday, August 1, against President Gustavo Petro, alleging harassment and defamation, in what is rapidly becoming one of the most polarizing chapters in the nation’s recent history. The complaint comes just hours before the former two-term conservative leader faces sentencing from a Bogotá judge after he was found guilty on three charges, from witness tampering to procedural fraud. The decades-long case against Uribe has been called Colombia’s “trial of the century.”