Colombia discovers two historical shipwrecks in Caribbean
Bogota, Colombia Reuters Colombian naval officials conducting underwater monitoring of the long-sunken San Jose galleon have discovered two other historical shipwrecks nearby, President Ivan Duque said on Monday. The San Jose galleon, thought by historians to be carrying treasure that would be worth billions of dollars, sank in 1708 near Colombia’s Caribbean port of Cartagena. […]
Snapshot: Cartagena, Colombia
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Postcards: Colombia’s Cartagena seeks to clean up corruption blocking climate plans
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to ensure the city of Cartagena is better prepared for future disasters…
Desperate Venezuelan migrants fall prey to sex slavery in Colombia
Thomson Reuters Foundation Trapped and held captive in basements and bars across Colombia, growing numbers of Venezuelan women are falling prey to sex trafficking rings as mass migration from Venezuela to neighbouring Colombia shows no signs of abating, campaigners and prosecutors said. Destitute migrants fleeing Venezuela’s economic collapse and medicine shortages are being targeted by […]