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Popular Colombian singer-songwriter Yeison Jiménez died in a plane crash Saturday. He was 34 years old. Jiménez’s plane went down in the state of Boyacá in Colombia. The crash claimed the lives of five others, including his manager, Jefferson Osorio. The singer’s press office confirmed the news to Billboard. The singer-songwriter was traveling to Medellin, near Marinilla, to perform, The Sun reported.

Some U.S. lawmakers still take their jobs seriously, especially members of the House Committee on Homeland Security. You see, as a crowning component of his fetish for “normalizing” relations with (embracing and subsidizing) the Terror-Sponsoring Castro-Family-Crime-Syndicate (called “Cuba” by Obama and his lapdog mainstream media) President Obama has given rapid and enthusiastic approval for six U.S. airlines to start flying one hundred direct flights a week from nine airports in Terror-Sponsoring Cuba to fifteen airports in our homeland.In light of this, some members of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security thought it prudent to check on what security measures...

United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday (Jan 7) invited his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro to the White House, just days after threatening him with military action over alleged drug trafficking. Trump had warned Petro on Jan 3 to "watch his ass" following US forces' ousting of leader Nicolas Maduro in neighbouring Venezuela. On Wednesday, following the first phone call between the leaders since Trump took office in January last year, the 79-year-old Republican said he was arranging to meet with Petro "in the near future". Petro "called to explain the situation of drugs and other disagreements that we have...

Daniel Osorio, Andean Capital Advisors president and founder, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, what's next for the country, impact on the global oil industry and cryptocurrency, and more. Every Venezuelan with the exception of a few thousand people are ecstatic:Andean's Daniel Osorio | 9:27CNBC Television | 3.31M subscribers | 2,019 views | January 6, 2026

The US has faced widespread condemnation for a “crime of aggression” in Venezuela at an emergency meeting of the United Nations security council. Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Eritrea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and Spain were among countries that on Monday denounced Donald Trump’s decision to launch deadly strikes on Venezuela and snatch its leader, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, to stand trial in the US. “The bombings on Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line,” Sérgio França Danese, the Brazilian ambassador to the UN, told the meeting. “These acts constitute a very serious...

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 3 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council is due to meet on Monday after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and deposed its long-serving autocratic President Nicolas Maduro, a move that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres views as setting "a dangerous precedent."Colombia, backed by Russia and China, requested the meeting of the 15-member council, diplomats said. The U.N. Security Council has met twice - in October and December - over the escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela.U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Washington would run Venezuela "until such time as we can do a safe,...

Colombia has deployed new troops along its border with Venezuela following a night of US strikes in the Bolivarian Republic. Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced last night on X.com that military forces are being deployed along the border as a response to the potential consequences of the U.S. military operation a few hours ago. On the night of Friday 2nd to Saturday 3rd, the U.S. carried massive strikes on military bases inside Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, covering a special operation that reportedly led to the capture of contested president Nicolas Maduro and his wife. The Venezuelan leader was wanted...

Donald Trump did not rule out expanding US military operations beyond Venezuela to Mexico and Colombia. The president sat down with Politico in an interview released on Tuesday where he said he would consider using military force on two US allies in Latin America. Trump cited Mexico and Colombia's drug trade into the US as he continues threatening to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Mexico is the primary country for drug trafficking into the US for a variety of narcotics, including heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. Since early September, the Trump administration has launched 22 strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels in...

There are sunken treasures, and then there is the legendary shipwreck of the San Jose. Considered by many to be the ‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks, we have been reporting on the explorations of the massive treasure since November 2023: The San Jose Galleon, the ‘Biggest Sunken Treasure in History’, Hasn’t Been Salvaged Yet – But It’s Already Causing Dispute in Court. The remains of the Spanish galleon San José, estimated to be worth nearly $20 billion, has been located off the coast of Colombia. pic.twitter.com/Tsb02Cgu87— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 16, 2023This week, it was reported that Colombian scientists have recovered...

It’s unclear whether the measure will pass after administration officials tried to reassure Republicans who signaled they may support the effort.The Senate will vote Thursday on a bipartisan measure to block President Donald Trump from attacking Venezuelan territory in a new test of Republicans’ willingness to oppose his use of military force in Latin America. It is unclear whether the largely symbolic effort will attract enough GOP support to pass, or whether a recent push by the administration to walk back Trump’s repeated threats of escalation has reassured those lawmakers who have suggested they might join the effort. On Wednesday,...

President Gustavo Petro said a U.S. strike in the Caribbean had killed a fisherman. President Trump said he would cut aid and impose new tariffs on Colombian imports. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat that the American authorities claimed had been carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Trump to declare on Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one of Washington’s top aid recipients in Latin America, and impose new tariffs on the country’s goods. The feuding between the two leaders reflected rising tensions in the...

President Trump accused Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro of being an “illegal drug leader” and announced that his administration is cutting off all subsidies to the Latin American country. Trump further trashed his Colombian counterpart as a “very unpopular leader” and warned Petro to close up alleged drug fields, or else “the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely.” “President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Columbia,” Trump raged on Truth Social. “It has become the biggest...

Tuesday pro-Hamas “peaceful” protests in the Colombian cities of Bogotá and Medellín concluded with numerous acts of vandalism and clashes between violent protesters and law enforcement, leaving several injured. Colombian leftists held a series of pro-Hamas rallies on Tuesday in Bogotá, Medellín, and other cities to mark the second anniversary of Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on Israel, in which the jihadist group killed, raped, and tortured random civilians, including children and newborn babies, leaving some 1,200 people dead and hundreds taken hostage. The protests appear to have the tacit endorsement of Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro, who shared footage of...

Colombia, Latin America's leading coal producer, reported a sharp drop in exports after President Gustavo Petro's government banned sales to Israel, the main buyer of Colombian coal. In July, coal shipments fell by nearly half from the same month a year earlier. According to Colombia's National Administrative Department of Statistics, exports dropped 45.8% to $479.8 million, down from $885.8 million in July 2024. From January to July, coal exports totaled $2.85 billion, a 35.5% drop from the $4.42 billion reported in the same period of 2023. Colombia's coal export sector has faced a steady decline in revenue because of lower...

An OnlyFans model has been arrested in Mexico after two popular Colombian musicians were tortured, murdered and chopped into pieces by drug traffickers, according to authorities. Angie Miller was busted a day after the body of her boyfriend, Bayron Sanchez Salazar — known by his stage name B King — was found along with that of fellow musician Jorge Luis Herrera Lemos, aka Regio Clown, in Cocotitlan, just outside of Mexico City, on Sept. 22, according to El Pais. Officials have not revealed how they feel that Miller — who is famous for selling sex toys molded from her private...

Former US president Barack Obama has said there is no military rationale right now for continuing to pummel what is already broken in Gaza, and he said it was unacceptable to ignore the human crisis that is happening there. He said children there were starving and that a starting point in the crisis would be for both sides to acknowledge each other’s history, in a bid to break the cycle of violence. He told a paying audience at the 3Arena in Dublin that where the truth becomes whitewashed, “you lose touch with reality and it puts you in a position...

The United States said it would revoke Colombian President Gustavo Petro's visa after he took to New York's streets on Friday in a pro-Palestinian demonstration and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders. "We will revoke Petro’s visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions," the State Department posted on X. Petro, addressing a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters outside the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, called for a global armed force with the priority to liberate Palestinians, adding, "This force has to be bigger than that of the United States." "That's why from here, from New York, I ask...

White House Border Czar Tom Homan joined Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC today to discuss ICE actions in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Governor Maura Healey have both vowed to fight the Trump administration over deportations, with Mayor Wu calling them "oppression" while Maura Healey attacked the National Guard, saying they "do nothing" for public safety. Mika tried to defend Healey and Wu over their sanctuary state/city policies, and Homan was having none of it. Homan also brought the receipts, telling the audience exactly who ICE rounded up in Boston. That includes a 33-year-old illegal immigrant from Guatemala, arrested...

The FBI has determined that in the next six to 18 months, the Venezuelan government will try to use the members of TdA in the US to threaten, kidnap, and kill US-based Venezuelans critical of the Maduro regime. The FBI has said that Venezuelan officials are "likely using" members of the Tren de Aragua gang in order to destabilize the United States as well as other countries, according to a new report from Fox News. This comes after President Donald Trump has said that the government of Venezuela has purposefully been sending the terrorist gang members into the US. According...

The United States is strengthening its naval presence in the waters off Venezuela to counter threats posed by drug cartels. More than 4,000 personnel will be deployed to the area, amid growing tension between Washington and Caracas. The U.S. government has not indicated any intention of a land incursion into the South American nation. The news follows confirmation last week of three U.S. Aegis guided-missile destroyers being deployed to the waters. Then, more recently, Venezuela announced it would send military vessels to the Caribbean Sea and elsewhere to help combat drug trafficking. According to the U.S. Navy’s new chief of...