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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.”

On World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, Colombia’s immigration authority reaffirmed its commitment to fighting human trafficking, unveiling new data and highlighting strengthened collaborations with law enforcement and international partners.

A Colombian court on Monday found former President Álvaro Uribe Vélez guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, marking an unprecedented moment in the country’s history and igniting a political firestorm at home and abroad.

The defense team of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe Vélez has issued a sharp condemnation of the judicial process that led to his conviction on three accounts of procedural fraud and witness tampering, calling the case a “textbook example of lawfare” marked by political interference, illegal surveillance, and systematic violations of due process.