Colombia
Analysis
Royal family
More questions than answers from Harry and Meghan’s Colombian visit
Colombia is not a country in which the former working royals are well-known and their four-day quasi-royal tour had no clear thread, no obvious aim.
- by Victoria Ward
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Colombia moves to ban souvenirs of drug lord Pablo Escobar
Shop owners oppose plans to outlaw the sale of merchandise depicting the dead cartel kingpin, but others believe the country should shed its image of being home to mafia bosses.
- by Manuel Rueda
Colombia is facing a new problem: too much cocaine
Unsold blocks of coca paste are piling up across Colombia and it’s the families that pick the raw coca leaves that are suffering most.
- by Genevieve Glatsky
What lies beneath: 10 of the world’s most incredible underground structures
Put ordinary buildings underground and they transform into something far more interesting and otherworldly.
- by Brian Johnston
It’s one of the world’s greatest cruise experiences, but few Aussies do it
In the realm of amazing cruise experiences, a transit of the waterways and intricate locks of this engineering miracle is near the top.
- by Kristie Kellahan
Chiquita banana company found liable for funding Colombian death squads
Chiquita bananas are famous all over the world. The company is the subject of a number of lawsuits brought by victims’ families in the US.
- by Jorge Valencia
The world’s most underrated countries for food
If you’re looking for your next great meal in this moveable feast we call life, it might be time to head to these often-overlooked places.
- by Ben Groundwater
World of photos, February 10, 2024
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
‘A complete sociopath’: the real woman behind the Netflix gangster series Griselda
The Sofía Vergara vehicle paints a sympathetic picture of the cocaine queen, but her story is as brutal as it is, at times, bizarre.
- by Tom Fordy
Break-in call leads police to $1 billion cocaine find
Police thought they were responding to a break and enter at a Sydney unit complex. Instead, they stumbled across an alleged kidnapping attempt and a 722kg drug haul.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Colombia to sterilise Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’
When Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar died, most of his exotic animals died or were transferred to zoos. Not his four hippopotamuses: they thrived ... Perhaps a little too well.
- by Michael Levenson
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