President Abelardo de la Espriella has lifted a decade-long suspension on permits to carry legal firearms.

Targeting traffickers will be at the top of the agenda as Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits Colombia, according to people familiar with his plans.

The devastation has tested Colombia's new president and his government as it scrambles to respond to the disaster and civil society as it pushes to provide aid to the most affected communities.

Security and China's role are on the secretary's September 8–10 agenda as he meets Presidents Abelardo de la Espriella, Daniel Noboa, and Keiko Fujimori.

In Colombia, as in the United States and El Salvador, leaders are increasingly using images of captured or killed enemies to project power.

The 7.4 magnitude earthquake's epicenter was in San José del Palmar, about 250 miles west of Colombia's capital, Bogota, officials said.

El presidente colombiano Abelardo de la Espriella levantó el martes la suspensión de los permisos para el porte de armas de fuego en todo el país tras ser restringidos durante gobiernos anteriores.

Colombian officials have blamed the National Liberation Army for a drone attack in northeastern Colombia that killed three soldiers and wounded four others.

Amid the low slopes of a tropical dry forest, families from the Wiwa community of Gomke are building a new home. Their ancestral settlement lies higher on a lush mountain in the town of Dibulla, overlooking the Caribbean coast in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

BOGOTA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Colombia's consumer prices rose 0.39% in August, the country's DANE statistics agency said on Monday, taking annual price growth to 6.24%. The August figure was above the 0.