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Enlarge / Diego Gómez (credit: Electronic Frontier Foundation) A Colombian biologist was facing up to eight years in prison for sharing a scientist’s thesis on the online documents portal Scribd. But the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that Diego Gómez has been cleared of criminal copyright violations in a country that, unlike the US, has no […]
Cesar Carrion/Colombian Presidency/Handout Mudslides triggered by heavy rains in southern Colombia have left at around 150 people dead, with hundreds more injured and missing, several outlets are reporting. Advertisement According to the Guardian, the rains caused the rivers in the country’s Putumayo province to overflow, sending mud and debris into houses and roads. “At this […]
Reuters/Czar Dancel During a speech at an event celebrating the 115th anniversary of the founding of the Philippine Bureau of Customs, President Rodrigo Duterte gave a customarily blunt response to an op-ed written by former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria. Gaviria, who presided over the hunt for and killing of Pablo Escobar, cautioned against deploying armed police […]
