Colombia | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:23:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Colombia | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Two killed in attack on Colombian military base https://www.insideojodu.com/two-killed-in-attack-on-colombian-military-base/ https://www.insideojodu.com/two-killed-in-attack-on-colombian-military-base/#respond Thu, 10 Feb 2022 09:23:35 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=29008 Two people including a soldier were killed Wednesday in Colombia when a rebel’s motorized…

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Two people including a soldier were killed Wednesday in Colombia when a rebel’s motorized scooter exploded near the entrance to a military base in the city of Granada, authorities said

“There was an attack on the military facilities of Battalion 21” in the south-central region of Meta, local government official Hernan Gomez, told reporters.

“Unfortunately, one soldier and one civilian lost their lives,” he added, noting that five additional soldiers were injured.

There was no confirmation by authorities that the perpetrator had been killed during the attack.

According to General Antonio Beltran, a motorized scooter tried to enter the military base before exploding, and the soldier who died had blocked the vehicle from advancing farther into the compound

Beltran said the driver was a member of a dissident group that did not sign on to the 2016 peace agreement between the national government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a deal that led to the disarmament of about 7,000 rebels.

About 2,500 fighters, without unified leadership, have rejected the peace agreement.

Granada authorities have declared a curfew until Thursday morning.

“We are not going to allow the Meta to be a war zone again,” said Gomez

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Bogota’s first woman mayor marries female partner in Colombia https://www.insideojodu.com/bogotas-first-woman-mayor-marries-female-partner-in-colombia/ https://www.insideojodu.com/bogotas-first-woman-mayor-marries-female-partner-in-colombia/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:10:35 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=9562 On the heels of becoming the first woman mayor of Bogota in Colombia, Claudia…

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On the heels of becoming the first woman mayor of Bogota in Colombia, Claudia López has married her girlfriend of three years.

López wed opposition senator Angélica Lozano on Monday evening in a private civil ceremony.

“I promise to honour you and love you for life!” López wrote on Instagram to her new wife, Agence France-Presse reported. “Thanks to life for this wonderful year: I earned my doctorate, won the Mayor’s office and married the love of my life.”

The post included four photos of the couple dressed in white and carrying bouquets of flowers, according to the news outlet.

Bogota voters elected the left-wing López, who billed herself as “incorruptible,” on Oct. 27. She takes office in January. The post is seen as the second most politically powerful in Colombia after the presidency.

The couple’s union has become a rallying cause among supporters promoting LGBT rights in the traditionally conservative, Catholic country – though Colombia has permitted gay marriage since a landmark Constitutional Court ruling in 2016.

Lozano told Colombia’s BLU Radio that the couple has tried to marry previously but their schedules made organizing a wedding complicated.

“We told ourselves, ‘We have to do it now or another four years will pass by,” Lozano said. “Because Claudia’s priority the next four years will be her job.”

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