A simmering diplomatic stand-off over deportation flights spilled onto social media Sunday, threatening the once close relationship between the US and Colombia and further exposing the anxiety many feel in Latin America towards a second Trump presidency.

"Most disaster-management and climate-change policies and programs are based on the assumption that people are - or should be - afraid of perils," Lizarralde noted. "This fear is often seen as a lever for prompting preventive action, such as getting people to reinforce their houses, relocate to less exposed areas or take out insurance.

Colombia has suspended peace talks with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, for second time in less than a year after blaming the rebel group for violence that has been affecting a northeastern region of the country in recent days.

In the last days before U.S. President Joe Biden departed the White House, he was somehow persuaded to take a second look at the U.S.-Cuba relationship. All I can say to President Biden is: that was one long Cuba policy review given that it was first initiated in February 2021.

The Cuban government firmly denied on Friday any presence of the National Liberation Army (ELN) on its soil, asserting that representatives of this

Presid​ent Trump, drunk with arrogance, decides, for no good reason, Cuba sponsors terrorism,” said the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez.

The diplomatic friction between the United States and Colombia escalated this Sunday when the Colombian government refused to accept a flight

With Donald Trump in the White House and Marco Rubio in the State Department, the days of coddling our anti-American Marxist neighbors are over.

Rubio calls Cuba a terror sponsor, citing links to militant groups, espionage, and harboring fugitives during his confirmation.

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump on Monday revoked the Biden administration's last-minute decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House said.

Colombia’s president has issued a decree giving him emergency powers to restore order in a coca-growing region bordering Venezuela that has been racked in recent days by a deadly turf war among dissident rebel groups.

Cuba on January 15 began releasing prisoners under a deal with outgoing US President Joe Biden's administration to remove the communist island from a list of terror sponsors, but Secretary of State-designate Marco Rubio signalled the policy shift would be short-lived.