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Taxes to soar 200% for rich Colombians in bill inspired by Thomas Piketty

When Colombia’s new leftist president, Gustavo Petro, unveiled a plan to impose a wealth tax on the rich just hours after being sworn in, the alarm bells rang only so loudly in the fashionable neighborhoods of Bogota and Medellin.

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'Higuita's Rule' cut time wasting and, after 30 years, is still changing football

Bogota (AFP) - Sweeper-keepers such as Manchester City's Ederson, his Brazilian compatriot Alisson Becker at Liverpool and Bayern Munich's Manuel Neuer are all the rage in modern football.

AFP

Simon Calder answers 13 travel questions including when to arrive at the airport and when to book flights

When to buy tickets for next year? When to reach the airport? And passport puzzles? The travel correspondent of The Independent can help

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Gustavo Petro sworn in as Colombia's first leftist president

Bogota (AFP) - Gustavo Petro on Sunday took the oath of office as Colombia's first-ever leftist president, before a crowd of hundreds of thousands at his inauguration in Bogota.

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Former rebel Petro takes office in Colombia promising peace and equality

Gustavo Petro on Sunday became Colombia's first leftist president, pledging to unite the polarized country in the fight against inequality and climate change and achieve peace with leftist rebels and crime gangs.

Reuters

How sport transformed the lives of young Colombians

A project implemented in a low-income area of Bogota, Colombia, part of the Sport for Development and Peace initiative, used Olympic race walking as a tool to foster the development of youth from low-income neighbourhoods.

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Colombia must meet international deforestation targets -new environment minister

Colombia must base its conservation targets on international agreements that push for annual deforestation of 100,000 hectares or less by 2025, incoming Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said on Wednesday.

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Colombian deforestation policy 'failure' a headache for new government

Bogota (AFP) - Colombian President Ivan Duque's environmental policies "failed" according to experts who dispute the outgoing right-wing government's claims to have reduced deforestation.

AFP

Colombia's President-elect Petro meets with Biden delegation

Colombian President-elect Gustavo Petro on Friday met with representatives of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration in Bogota, the Colombian capital, where they discussed topics including drug trafficking, the environment and economic development.

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Leonor Espinosa: Celebrated Colombian chef with a taste for social change

Bogota (AFP) - From its jungles to its deserts: the world's newly-minted best female chef, Leonor Espinosa, draws her inspiration from Colombia's vast biodiversity, painful history and oft-neglected traditional communities.

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From catwalk to perp walk: Colombian designer awaits fate on smuggling charges

Bogota (AFP) - Colombian celebrity designer Nancy Gonzalez's fall from grace was sudden and spectacular: taken in handcuffs from her luxury home in Cali last week to a Bogota jail cell, accused of smuggling protected animal skin purses into the United States.

AFP

Colombia: Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez have achieved a historic victory for the left – so who are they?

It was, said Francia Márquez Mina, a victory for “the nobodies”. Speaking in Bogota on June 19 after the results of the Colombian presidential election were announced, the newly elected vice-president struck a jubilant note after becoming the first black woman to be elected to the office – on a…

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Tatjana Maria hopes Wimbledon run can change attitudes towards sporting mums

The mum-of-two beat fifth seed Maria Sakkari to secure a maiden fourth-round appearance at a grand slam.

The Independent UK

Colombia must advance talks with armed groups to secure peace -truth commission president

Colombia's armed conflict will only end when the 2016 peace deal with the now-demobilized FARC guerrillas is properly implemented and peace talks with other armed groups and gangs make progress, the president of the Andean country's peace commission said.

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At least 49 inmates die in Colombia prison riot and fire

Bogota (AFP) - At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia, the national prisons agency said.

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Four dead, hundreds hurt as stands collapse in Colombia bullring

Bogota (AFP) - A toddler was among four people killed when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed, injuring hundreds of others, officials said Monday.

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Four dead, dozens hurt as stands collapse in Colombia bullring

Bogota (AFP) - At least four people were killed and another 30 seriously injured on Sunday when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed during a popular event at which members of the public face off with small bulls, officials said.

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Colombia's new president was once part of a guerrilla group with a wild history. Now he promises social change

Colombia's new President, Gustavo Petro, was once a member of M-19 — a wild rebel group that stole the Sword of Simon Bolivar and is rumoured to have worked with and against Pablo Escobar.

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Colombian president's challenges: military, rebels, congress and markets

Bogota (AFP) - Gustavo Petro, Colombia's new president, faces a plethora of challenges ahead -- from appeasing deeply suspicious military and business sectors, to ending a decades-long conflict with armed groups and garnering enough support in congress to govern.

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Jubilant Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first leftist president

Bogota (AFP) - Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday, after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.

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Gustavo Petro elected Colombia's first left-wing president

Bogota (AFP) - Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of crisis-wracked Colombia on Sunday after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.

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Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first left-wing president

Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia's presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history.

AFP

Counting begins after Colombia vote between ex-guerrilla and maverick

Bogota (AFP) - Counting began after Colombians voted on Sunday in a presidential election filled with uncertainty, as ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro and millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez vie for power in a country saddled with widespread poverty, an uptick in violence and other woes.

Reuters

Colombia elects former guerrilla Petro as first leftist president

Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement, who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia's presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history.

Reuters

Colombians will choose between leftist and eccentric businessman in Sunday vote

Colombians will vote on Sunday for their next president, choosing between leftist Gustavo Petro, who promises profound social reforms, and eccentric business magnate Rodolfo Hernandez, who has found fertile ground in anti-corruption rhetoric despite facing a graft investigation.

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