China's envoy to Colombia seemed to take advantage of the weekend's public dispute between Colombian President Gustavo Petro and US President Donald Trump over immigration and deportation policies to promote Beijing's good ties with Bogota.

Daniel Oquendo, 33, remembers well the first words US border agents told him after he crossed the US-Mexico border on0.

The Trump administration had added extra inspections for passengers from Colombia as part of a pressure campaign. The effects lingered into Wednesday.

Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia were canceled Monday following a dispute between President Donald Trump and his

Bogota Financial Corp . (NASDAQ:BSBK), a $100 million market cap financial institution, announced the appointment of Peter T. Donnelly to its board of directors, slated to take effect on March 26, 2025.

Colombian migrants returning home described being shackled "like criminals," during earlier U.S. flights that were blocked by Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, amid a standoff with President Donald Trump that almost led to a trade war. Newsweek has reached out to the Colombian Foreign Ministry for comment via email.

Due to the dispute between the governments of Colombia and the United States, appointments for thousands of visa applicants at the US embassy in Bogota have been suspended. What is the situation and what response have visa applicants received?

Researchers in the Amazon of Colombia made a mysterious discovery when taking a closer look at a fish collected from a forest stream, according to a study published Jan. 28 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. It belonged to the “miniature fish genus Priocharax,” according to the study, and was just 0.7 inches long.

From South America to the Arctic, the world is getting a crash course in the Trump doctrine. It’s immediate, it’s retaliatory, it’s blunt. And it’s leaving countries oceans apart disoriented, rethinking diplomatic norms and wondering whether they’re on their own when fighting the American juggernaut.

When Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, refused military planes carrying deportees, infuriating President Trump, he revealed how heated the question of deportations has become.

The first of two Colombian air force planes carrying people who were deported from the United States arrived in Bogota early on Tuesday, local media said, paving the way for U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to lift visa restrictions and other measures on Colombian citizens.