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Today we feature the band Amparanoia from Spain with a videoclip filmed in Mexico of their 2002 song Somos Viento (We are the wind). 

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Irina Echarry from Cuba took our photo of the day: "A Bird in My Garden," in Texas, USA.

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Medellín, Colombia – The Venezuelan government on Wednesday published a declaration saying it regretted recent violence in the Catatumbo region of Colombia just days after Bogotá announced bombing in cooperation with Caracas.

The statement muddies the waters about whether or not Venezuela was involved in the military operations against the National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels near the two countries’ joint border, which allegedly killed 7 guerrilla fighters. 

“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its profound concern and regrets the escalation of violence in the border region of Catatumbo,” read a statement shared on X by Foreign Minister Yvan Gil.

The declaration came after Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Monday that he had ordered the bombing in cooperation with Venezuela. 

“I gave the order to bomb the ELN camp in accordance with the agreement reached with the Bolivarian government of Venezuela,” wrote Petro on X.

Petro appeared to allude to an agreement with Caracas to cooperate on tackling cross-border crime following his visit to Venezuela in April. 

But Caracas appeared to wash its hands of the recent bombing operation; while it did not directly acknowledge the bombing or Petro’s statement, its declaration said that it “rejects any armed action that compromises the peace, stability, and security of border communities.” 

It added that the only way to preserve peace and stability in the region is through “mechanisms of understanding and mutual respect, avoiding actions that can aggravate tensions or generate greater risks for border populations, who for decades have faced the consequences of a conflict out of their control.”

Since last year, Catatumbo has been the site of what has been described as “the most serious humanitarian crisis of recent times” in Colombia. In January 2025, a family of three, including a nine-month-old baby, was killed, marking the collapse of fragile peace pacts between the ELN and the Frente 33 – a dissident faction of the demobilized FARC rebels – and triggering a humanitarian crisis on a scale not seen in the country for over a decade.

The Red Cross said that 2025 was one of the most complicated years for humanitarian conditions in Colombia: more than 235,000 people were individually displaced, over 176,000 people have been unable to move freely because of armed conflict, and there has also been a sharp increase in cases of mass displacements.

Venezuela’s statement highlights the cross-border nature of the conflict, noting that the country “has historically suffered the consequences of Colombian internal conflict.” Colombian armed groups like the ELN and dissident FARC factions have traditionally had a significant presence in Venezuela and were known to have ties to the Nicolás Maduro regime.

But both the interim government under Delcy Rodríguez and Petro have been under pressure from the White House to confront guerrilla groups.

This article originally appeared on The Bogotá Post and was re-published with permission.

Featured image description: Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Venezuelan Interim President Delcy Rodríguez at a meeting in Caracas on April 24, 2026.

Image courtesy of: Colombian President’s Office.

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I understand that the festival known as the May Romerías is celebrated in two locations: one in Spain and the other in Holguin, Cuba.

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Bogotá, Colombia – Peru’s presidential election has been upturned by news that the country’s public prosecutor is seeking a jail term for Roberto Sánchez, one of two candidates set to compete in next month’s run-off.

The public prosecutor announced on Tuesday it is seeking a five year and four month jail term for alleged irregularities in campaign donations to the Together for Peru (Juntos por el Perú) party between 2020 and 2021. 

The announcement has fuelled existing concerns about the integrity of the elections and the state of Peru’s democracy, which has faced a spate of crises in recent years.

If successfully prosecuted, Sánchez would be unable to stand in the election set for June 7. 

The candidate denies the accusations, saying, “I proved that I never made personal use of the party’s financial resources, and that is why the alleged fraud as a serious crime was dismissed by the Judiciary through a court ruling.”

The timing of the release of the documents, leaked to the press on May 12 and formally unsealed the next day, has raised suspicions in some quarters of attempted electoral manipulation. The documents show that the prosecutor’s resolution was issued on January 15 but was only made public this week, as Sánchez closes in on advancing to run-off elections following a lengthy vote count.

Jo-Marie Burt, from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), says the charges may signal that an elite coalition in congress is seeking to subvert the election process to avoid the chance of Sánchez coming to power.

“One cannot help but see this as a politically motivated move designed to remove him as a viable candidate,” she told Latin America Reports. 

Sánchez, a leftist former trade minister, is set to face off with Keiko Fujimori, the right-wing politician who has dominated the political scene in Peru for a decade but has been defeated in each of the last three presidential run-offs. 

WOLA’s Burt sees the hand of Keiko Fujimori behind this intervention: “The [prosecutor’s office] is now run by people who are closely allied with Keiko Fujimori and her allies. Hence the concern that this action against Sánchez is politically motivated.”

The public prosecutor’s decision to seek a jail term for Sánchez is just the latest in a series of moves which have fuelled concerns about the integrity of Peru’s judiciary.

While the prosecutor’s office is technically independent from the executive and legislative branches, it has been clouded by accusations of politicization since the accession of Attorney General Tomás Gálvez, considered an ally of Fujimori.

In November last year the UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judiciary and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, raised concerns about the ousting of Attorney General Delia Espinoza, who had been actively pursuing investigations into links between organized crime and legislators.

“Judicial independence is not optional. It is the foundation of democracy,” she said, after congress voted to bar Espinoza from office for ten years.

Espinoza’s replacement by Gálvez – who has been under investigation for links to organized crime in the Cuellos Blancos del Puerto influence peddling scandal – deepened fears for the integrity of the judiciary in Peru. In January this year, he announced that three major corruption investigation units, including the one investigating the Cuellos Blancos case, were being closed down.

Peru’s National Human Rights Coordinator claimed at the time this “constitutes an institutional breakdown that seriously weakens the fight against impunity by jeopardizing ongoing investigations.”

Featured image description: Roberto Sánchez at a campaign rally.

Featured image credit: Roberto Sánchez via Facebook.

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