Armed rebels who control swaths of the Amazon have threatened the COP16 biodiversity summit to be held next week in Colombia, calling into question Bogota’s chosen theme of “peace with nature” as the country deployed thousands of police and soldiers.
Militants from a faction of the Estado Mayor Central leftist rebel group launched attacks in the western hamlet of El Plateado last weekend, injuring 17 people and shutting down highways days before the nearby city of Cali hosts 14 heads of…
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