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Bogota, Jun 13 (EFE).- More than 1 million people migrated from Venezuela to Colombia in the past 15 months, of whom 819,000 are Venezuelans without the right to remain permanently, a Colombian migration official said Wednesday. Nearly 250,000 Colombians returned home in the period, Felipe Muñoz, a migration service official, told reporters. The migrants include …

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Guatemala City, Jun 8 (EFE).- Guatemalan authorities on Friday ordered the immediate evacuation of rescue workers and residents due to a new pyroclastic flow that is descending from the Fuego volcano, which erupted last weekend leaving more than 100 people dead. Guatemalan television networks have shown the thick clouds of sand, ash and smoke coming …

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Guatemala City, Jun 5 (EFE).- The death toll from the Fuego volcano eruption in Guatemala rose to 75 authorities said Tuesday, while for the first time giving a number of 192 people reported missing. The National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) recovered 75 dead bodies, while the number of missing people stood at 192, according …

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Tegucigalpa, Jun 5 (EFE).- Honduran students, environmental organizations and authorities took part Tuesday in World Environment Day with an awareness-raising campaign, during which they called for a reduction in the use of plastic. The campus of Francisco Morazan National Pedagogical University in Tegucigalpa was the scene of the project under the slogan “Without contamination by …

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Bogota, May 27 (EFE).- Ivan Duque, of former President Alvaro Uribe’s Democratic Center party, won the first round of the presidential vote held in Colombia on Sunday with just over 39 percent of the ballots, according to the official vote count. With 99.46 percent of the ballots counted, Duque has 7,539,930 votes, or 39.11 percent, …

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