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Rescue workers cut through debris as they search for survivors the day after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Colombia searches for over 3,000 missing after a powerful earthquake kills more than 100

By Marko Álvarez, Astrid Suárez and Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

Tourists take photos in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a battleground for fighting among drug cartels, leftist guerrillas, military forces and government-linked paramilitary groups, the area is now a tourist attraction. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of Medellin’s tourism boom

By Astrid Suárez - Associated Press

Martin Londoño, owner of MATT, an electric wheelchair tour company talks during an interview in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Londoño, 31, started to work on the hand-cycles four years ago in a bid to improve his own mobility. He lost the use of his legs after breaking his spinal chord in a traffic accident at age 18. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Electric wheelchair tours show Colombian city from new angle

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Venezuelan migrants walk to Bogota as they pass through Tunja, Colombia, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. Thousands of Venezuelans are heading to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in search of work as these countries reopen their economies following months of lockdowns. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Venezuelans once again fleeing on foot as troubles mount

By MARIANA PALAU and MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

In this June 8, 2020 photo, a sign reminding citizens to maintain a safe social distance sits on a park bench between a woman and child, amid the new coronavirus pandemic in Medellin, Colombia, which recently went five weeks without a single COVID-19 death. The new challenge for Medellin will be to convince citizens to continue abiding by safety measures like wearing face masks and social distancing. In some poor neighborhoods, local activists say they've encountered skepticism about the virus. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Colombia’s Medellin emerges as surprise COVID-19 pioneer

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Former drug lord Ochoa seeks early release from US prison

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, Jhon Jairo Velasquez, a former hit man for Pablo Escobar, known by his nickname &quot;Popeye,&quot; gives his testimony while holding a book titled &quot;The True Pablo, Blood, Treason, and Death,&quot; during the trial against Alberto Santofimio Botero in Bogota, Colombia. According to authorities, Velasquez died of stomach cancer at a hospital in Bogota on Feb. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez, File)

Pablo Escobar’s hit man, known as “Popeye,” dies of cancer

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Uruguay's Deputy Foreign Minister Ariel Bergamino, right, leaves the session of the 49th OAS General Assembly in Medellin, Colombia, Thursday, June 27, 2019. Bergamino walked out, leading a protest over the participation of diplomats appointed by Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Uruguay protests role of Venezuela’s opposition at gathering

By MANUEL RUEDA and SCOTT SMITH - Associated Press

Clouds of dust rise from the implosion of a six-floor apartment building that former cartel boss Pablo Escobar once called home, in Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. Mayor Federico Gutierrez had been pushing to raze the building and erect in its place a park honoring the thousands of victims, including four presidential candidates and some 500 police officers, killed by Escobar's army of assassins during the Medellin cartel's heyday in the 1980s and 1990s. (AP Photo/Luis Benavidez)

Medellin razes Pablo Escobar’s home in symbol of rebirth

By DIEGO ESCUDERO and CESAR GARCIA - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo, the late Pablo Escobar, former boss of the Medellin drug cartel, his wife Maria Henao and their son Juan Pablo, attend a soccer match in Bogota, Colombia. The widow of Pablo Escobar fell madly in love as a preteen with the man who would rise to be a ruthless drug lord, but says in a new book she felt raped when at age 14 he forced her to have an abortion, and over time came to view him as a cruel psychopath. (El Tiempo Photo via AP File)

Pablo Escobar’s widow describes forced abortion in new book

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this 1983 file photo, Medellin drug cartel boss Pablo Escobar watches a soccer game in Medellin, Colombia. Colombian police announced Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 that they have shut down a small makeshift museum that showcased the life and times of notorious drug lord, saying the building's managers do not have a tourism license. The site was managed by Escobar's 71-year-old brother, Roberto. (AP Photo, File)

Colombian police shut down Pablo Escobar museum

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Probe finds negligence in crash that killed soccer players

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People cry as they wait for more information on tourists who were on a ferry that sank in a reservoir in Guatape, Colombia, Sunday, June 25, 2017. Nine people were dead and 28 missing after a tourist ferry packed with around 170 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized Sunday on a reservoir near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Dozens missing after tourist boat sinks in Colombia

By LUIS BENAVIDES and CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

In this Feb. 18, 2017 photo, Juan David Pemberty walks out of bar Chapecoense, which he opened with his wife in honor of the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, in Medellin, Colombia. All but three of the players photos are in somber black and white, honoring players who died when a charter plane went down near Medellin on Nov. 28, 2016 wiping out nearly the entire Chapecoense team from Brazil. (AP Photo/Luis Benavides)

Colombian bar pays homage to soccer players killed in crash

By LUIS BENAVIDES - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016, file photo, players of Brazil's Chapecoense celebrate at the end of a Copa Sudamericana semifinal soccer match against Argentina's San Lorenzo in Chapeco, Brazil. A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board, including the Brazilian first division Chapecoense soccer team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File )

Brazilian team’s season of glory ends in tragedy

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Argentina's Velez Sarsfield's Roberto Nanni reacts after scoring a disallowed goal against Peru's Universitario at a Copa Libertadores soccer match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)

Velez leads Argentine clubs in Copa Libertadores

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press