Colombia

A United Airlines Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft is seen taking off from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.Nicolas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesUnited Airlines is planning to launch flights to Marrakesh, Morocco, and Medellin, Colombia, and ramp up its service to Asia, in the carrier's latest bet that consumers will continue to shell out for trips abroad.The flights from United's Newark, New Jersey, hub to Marrakesh are scheduled to begin Oct. 24 using a Boeing 767-300ER. The carrier's Houston-to-Medellin flight is slated…

I N THE COLISEUM, the bull stares down hundreds of men. He’s a half-ton killer, black, head white like a skull, horns curled. Bred for the fight. There’s violence in his DNA. The bull scans the crowd in the ring, alert to any challenge. The crowd watches for the animal’s slightest of movements. When the hundreds of men flee, they move in tandem, like a school of fish dodging a shark. The blazing tropical sun beats down on us all. From the crowd steps a man. Catalino Bravo wears the face of a clown, white…

Most remember Griselda Blanco as the “Black Widow,” a ruthless Colombian drug lord whose network flooded Miami with cocaine, brought in $80 million a month nationally, and who’s been personally implicated in a rumored 200 murders. Michael Corleone Blanco, her youngest son raised at the height of her drug-trafficking empire, admits she was a rigid, stern woman he affectionately called cariñosa — an endearing term given to loved ones.   “As a kid, you can’t really comprehend what is wrong, what is right, and what is…

Tinder issued a safety warning to its users in Colombia amid an increase in criminals using the popular dating app to lure victims who they drug and rob.“Recently, there have been government advisories about heightened risks in certain regions,” according to an in-app message sent to Tinder users. “Please remember to vet your matches, meet in public places, and share plans with people you trust. If something feels off, you can end the date.”  A spokesperson for Match Group Inc., the parent company of the largest dating…

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Another drug war has begun in Latin America. The newly elected president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, has declared a state of emergency and the military is being used to tackle violence and drug trafficking in a country that is part of the transnational cocaine smuggling trade. Ecuador will probably realize what other…

Steve Chapman’s full house sometimes feels like it’s bursting at the seams. The 45-year-old and his wife welcomed Chapman’s mother and stepdad into their Aurora home a few years ago after his mom’s landlord sold the Loveland trailer the couple lived in, leaving them unable to afford Colorado rent on their Social Security income. “The idea was it’d be temporary to help them get going, but it’s impossible to make it here, it seems,” Chapman said of the living arrangement. Then the Chapmans’ 23-year-old daughter fell on…

Looks like the Statue of Liberty might have some competition; at least in the eyes of pop culture enthusiasts.A new statue of Shakira is being unveiled in her Colombian hometown of Barranquilla, and fans are already making hilarious comparisons with the colossal New York City monument designed by the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.Made of bronze, the 21.3 ft (6.5 meter) statue that honors the pop star’s career will be open to the public in spring 2024.Shakira was recently honored with a 20-foot-tall bronze…

Too Long; Didn't ReadColombia’s finance minister announces plans for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), along with a bill to regulate cryptocurrencies. “We will have a digital currency, and the primary issuer will be the central bank,” said Ricardo Bonilla. ‘You could have a potentially darker world where the government decides that units of central bank money can be used to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less desirable like say ammunition, or drugs, or pornography’ Too Long; Didn't…

This video was produced by Trevor Kjorlien as part of the CBC Creator Network. Learn more about the Creator Network here.During wintertime in Montreal, it's easy to think that we live in a northern part of the world. It's cold, it's snowy and it's dark at 4:30 p.m. But surprisingly, Montreal is at nearly the exact halfway point between the North Pole and the equator.How we measure the EarthIf you have a globe near you, take a closer look at it.At the equator, this is 0. And going further north of the equator, this number…

Colombia has begun a new campaign sterilizing its invasive hippos, showing signs that it is taking the threat the animals pose to the country’s biodiversity and local communities seriously. The plan is to capture, anaesthetize and sterilize an initial 20 hippos by the end of 2023 as part of a three-pronged approach the government is taking to reduce the rapidly expanding population that has established itself along the country’s Magdalena River.The other prongs involve shipping hippos abroad to sanctuaries and zoos, and —…