Kolombiya'dan acı haber: Türk iş insanının kullandığı uçaktaki 5 kişinin cansız bedenine ulaşıldı
Kolombiya'da Türk pilot ve iş insanı Mehmet Çankaya'nın kullandığı uçağın düşmesi sonucu, uçaktaki 5 kişinin tamamının hayatını kaybettiği açıklandı. Kolombiya'da Türk pilot ve iş insanı Mehmet Çankaya'nın kullandığı uçağın önceki gün düşmesi sonucu, uçaktaki 5 kişinin tamamının hayatını kaybettiği belirlendi. 13 Eylül'de Condoto Havaalanı'ndan kalktıktan kısa bir süre sonra kaybolan ve dün enkazına ulaşılan uçakta pilot Çankaya ve 4 sağlık çalışanı bulunuyordu. Kolombiya Devlet Başkanı Abelardo de la Espriella sosyal medya platformundan yaptığı açıklamada, 13 Eylül'de kaybolan ve 5 kişiyi taşıyan HK4985 tescilli Cessna T206 tipi uçağın akıbetine ilişkin bilgi verdi. Devlet Başkanı Espriella, "Derin bir üzüntüyle, sefer yaparken düşen HK-4985 tescil numaralı Cessna T206 uçağının bulunduğunu doğruluyorum. Maalesef yetkililer, uçaktakiler tamamının ölü bulunduğunu belirtti" ifadelerini kullandı. Espriella hayatını kaybeden 5 kişinin yakınlarına başsağlığı diledi. GÖNÜLLÜ PİLOTLUK ÇALIŞMALARIYLA TANINIYORDU Kolombiya medyası uçakta hayatını kaybedenlerin Türk iş insanı ve pilot Mehmet Çankaya ile 4 sağlık çalışanı Perla Costanza Alvarez, Sandy Garcia, Maria Guzman ve Yuliza Figueredo olduğunu aktardı. Sağlık çalışanları, Choco'nun Condoto bölgesindeki yerli topluluklar için düzenlenen insani yardım amaçlı tıbbi çalışmalara katıldıktan sonra Bogota'ya dönüyordu. Türk iş insanı Mehmet Çankaya, turizm kariyeri ve gönüllü pilotluk çalışmalarıyla tanınıyordu. ÇANKAYA'NIN EŞİ, “KIZLARIM BABALARININ SEYAHATTE OLDUĞUNU SANIYOR” DEMİŞTİ Enkaza ulaşılmasından önce Çankaya'nın eşi Adriana Revelo, Kolombiya basınına konuşarak, Çankaya ile 10 yıldır evli olduklarını ve üç kız çocuklarının bulunduğunu anlatmıştı. Çocuklarının 18, 9 ve 7 yaşlarında olduğunu belirten Revelo, en büyük kızlarının babasının kayıp olduğunu sosyal medyadan öğrendiğini söylemiş; iki küçük kızlarını ise yaşananlardan uzak tutmaya çalıştıklarını belirterek, “Onlar babalarının seyahatte olduğunu düşünüyor.” demişti.
Trump removes Venezuela from list of countries failing to combat drug trafficking but keeps Colombia on it
The United States highlights the ‘positive steps’ taken by Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas and signals that it could reconsider its stance toward Bogotá following Abelardo de la Espriella’s rise to power
Rubio goes on LatAm road show, earning praise but few real wins
This week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio traveled to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, where he pledged increased security assistance, signed critical minerals deals and warned the three countries’ recently-elected, ideologically-aligned leaders — two of them U.S. citizens — about China’s presence in the region. The tour, Rubio’s fourth to Latin America and the Caribbean since becoming secretary of state last year, comes as the Trump administration increasingly pivots U.S. foreign policy toward the Western Hemisphere, where it has expanded military operations on land and at sea to degrade “narco-terrorist” groups, including the ten designated foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) operating in the three Andean countries Rubio visited. Rubio’s trip, however, transpired amid increased scrutiny, including from his traditional base of support in South Florida, over a controversial oil deal in nearby Venezuela, where Trump officials have touted Washington’s newfound leverage over interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez through its control over the country’s oil revenues following the bombing of the country and abduction of its embattled leader, Nicolas Maduro, in January. For America’s top diplomat, whose potential run for president in 2028 is caught between defending his boss’ “historic” deal and reassuring supporters of his commitment to democracy in Venezuela, the South American tour with like-minded conservative leaders offered an opportunity to shore up his image across the hemisphere as other administration officials tout the deal in Dallas and say the country is “not yet ready” for elections. Rubio met on Tuesday with newly-inaugurated Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella in his coastal stronghold of Barranquilla, where the U.S. and Colombia signed a deal to “jointly identify and finance mining and processing projects within six months” — the country boasts large reserves of gold, nickel, coltan, platinum, tungsten and other rare earths — as well as to “establish a bilateral for strategic civil nuclear cooperation.” Rubio’s visit came on the heels of a devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake last month that killed at least 330 and injured thousands more. The State Department responded by delivering nearly $27 million in aid. De la Espriella, who was endorsed by Trump before winning a razor-thin runoff election against the leftwing candidate backed by outgoing President Gustavo Petro, has, in turn, sought U.S. relief from 12.5% tariffs affecting the country’s flower industry and other U.S. exports, yet no announcement was made Tuesday. Answering questions from the press about much-anticipated joint military operations, Rubio stated that the new Colombian administration had not formally requested the deployment of U.S. troops to fight the country's crime syndicates, adding that it has, in the interim, agreed to launch in Medellín the regional headquarters of the administration’s counter-cartel coalition known as the Shield of Americas. Leading up to Rubio’s visit, the Colombian president has come under fire for holding press conferences surrounded by body bags of supposed “narco-terrorists,” announcing new and likely unconstitutional open carry laws, justifying the death of minors in bombing campaigns against irregular armed actors, and eliminating nearly a dozen regulations on mining, which stands to benefit gold companies like the one formerly led by Colombia’s new ambassador to Washington, Maria Consuelo Araújo. On Wednesday, Rubio met with President Daniel Noboa in Ecuador, which in recent years has become one of the world’s most violent countries and has emerged as a major trafficking hub for the world’s cocaine, produced mostly in neighboring Colombia and Peru. While in Quito, Rubio announced Washington was placing terrorist designations on Los Tiguerones, an Ecuadorian gang that infamously took over a live TV broadcast in 2024; sanctioned seven former public officials over alleged ties to criminal groups; hailed Ecuador as an “aggressive partner” in the administration’s counterdrug push; and said he would seek $45 million in U.S. funding toward these ends. He was, in turn, awarded Ecuador's National Order of Merit, the Grand Cross. The secretary’s second visit to Quito coincided with joint U.S. military operations targeting armed groups along Ecuador’s border with Colombia, launched earlier this year, even as U.S. lawmakers and experts continue to raise concerns about democratic backsliding, growing insecurity, deteriorating rule of law and alleged official ties to drug trafficking in the country. Since Noboa won a special election in 2023 before getting re-elected early last year, his government has lobbied the Biden and Trump administrations for increased weapons sales, an elusive free-trade deal and the return of a U.S. air base in Manta that was closed down by former leftwing President Rafael Correa in 2009. Some of these requests have materialized, aided by Noboa’s eager support for Trump’s aggressive counternarcotics and immigration objectives in the hemisphere. Others have been constrained by a popular referendum last year rejecting the presence of foreign military bases. Sweeping changes to U.S. trade policy have also pushed one of Trump’s closest South American allies to deepen commercial ties with China. A similar dynamic has transpired in Peru, where on Thursday Rubio met with recently-inaugurated president Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of former authoritarian dictator Alberto Fujimori, who clinched a razor-thin victory in the country’s June runoff elections after three previous failed attempts at the presidency. While Rubio was there, Peru formalized its membership in the Shield of Americas, through which it seeks to bolster joint actions against transnational criminal groups, and requested U.S. support in the face of the weather phenomenon known as El Niño, expected to affect over a million Peruvians in the coming months. Rubio, whose visit triggered sizable protests in the capital, Lima, was awarded with the country’s highest civilian honor, the Order of the Sun. Named a non-NATO ally earlier this year, Peru purchased $3.5 billion in Lockheed Martin F-16s just months later in part due to pressure from U.S. Ambassador Bernie Navarro, a longtime Rubio confidant. But its conservative government has nonetheless withstood U.S. calls to decouple economically from China, which buys the country’s copper and iron and is heavily invested in its mining, energy and infrastructure sectors, most notably the multibillion mega-port of Chancay. Last year, the Peruvian government hired Rubio-aligned D.C. lobbying firm Continental Strategy in part to reverse 50% tariffs on its U.S. copper exports and to boost bilateral ties amid the bicentennial of the countries’ diplomatic relationship. Sources told Reuters that Fujimori is now, like De la Espriella, seeking relief from the more recent 12.5% U.S. tariffs affecting its agricultural trade with the U.S. Despite its relative economic prosperity and fiscal stability for the region, Peru has faced growing insecurity in ports and prisons, extortion of business owners by criminal groups, and high levels of coca production in rural areas. To these ends, the country’s foreign minister, a longtime employee of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, said before Rubio’s arrival that he hopes to strengthen cooperation on issues of “security and defense and the fight against transnational organized crime, which is so damaging to our country.” For an administration wielding all the coercive tools it has in its playbook to secure cooperation with its militarized anti-drug agenda in South America, striking security agreements with like-minded regional leaders is a walk in the park for Rubio. But receiving symbolic accolades in Quito and Lima and offering lofty platitudes about China’s threat ignore the even greater challenges the region faces — from authoritarian drift to low productivity, steep inequality and state capture. On these points, the administration’s “Donroe Doctrine” has thus far provided relatively little.
Rubio goes on LatAm road show, earning praise but few real winsColombia court orders President de la Espriella to hide social media videos of him with dead bodies
Colombia's right-wing President Abelardo de la Espriella has been ordered to hide social media videos showing him walking past rows of the dead bodies of alleged guerrillas killed by the country's armed forces, according to a court document seen Wednesday. The newly sworn-in president has launched a fresh offensive at armed groups involved in the country's lucrative cocaine trade.
US Secretary of State Rubio arrives in Colombia to clarify China ties, sign minerals deal
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Colombia on Tuesday to meet President Abelardo de la Espriella, sign agreements on critical minerals and civil nuclear cooperation and take up the country’s ties to China, in the first visit by a cabinet-level US official since the Colombian leader took office a month ago. Colombia’s participation in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Chinese investment in critical infrastructure were on the agenda for the meeting, a Colombian official...
Rubio kicks off tour in Latin America as US vies for regional influence
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday arrived in Colombia following the recent election of hard-right lawyer and US ally President Abelardo de la Espriella, and a string of right-wing electoral victories across Latin American. Colombia is the first stop on a tour designed to bolster pro-US leaders and cement influence over the continent.
Colombian president posts video purporting to show 23 ‘neutralised’ guerrillas in body bags
Footage provokes outrage, as bellicose and performative far-right politics continue to spread across Americas Colombia’s hardline president, Abelardo De La Espriella, has provoked outrage after posting a social media video in which he strides through rows of white body bags that he said contained the corpses of 23 “neutralised” guerrillas. De La Espriella took power last month vowing “all-out war” against illegal armed groups and he published the footage on Thursday in an apparent attempt to show he was fulfilling that pledge. Continue reading...
Colombia’s De La Espriella Poses With Bodies in a Video Posted Online
In Colombia, as in the United States and El Salvador, leaders are increasingly using images of captured or killed enemies to project power.
Four minors killed in Colombia's guerrilla crackdown
Four minors were killed in bombing raids conducted by Colombia's new right-wing government against the country's cocaine-trafficking guerrillas, a source from the forensics authority told Agence France-Presse Monday. The deaths come as newly appointed hard-line President Abelardo de la Espriella ramps up military operations that have killed 26 suspected rebels so far. Two minors aged 15 and two more aged 16 died in the attacks that took place in the southern Guaviare department and in the northe
US joint military operations in the Americas?
On Thursday, USSOUTHCOM Commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan met with the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministers in San Lorenzo, Ecuador. The trio agreed on a plan to significantly expand their military cooperation along the Ecuador-Colombia border, moving past episodic U.S.-partnered missions and toward sustained combined operations against groups Washington has designated as terrorist organizations. This development is significant because it occurs at the time U.S. military forces are already operating on the ground with Ecuadorian forces in Esmeraldas, with the precise manner of cooperation publicly unknown. Additionally, on Aug. 23, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella announced all illegal armed and criminal groups will be classified and treated strictly as “terrorists” under a new “Comprehensive Security and Public Order Strategy,” further laying the groundwork for expanded military cooperation with the U.S. and Ecuador. The new U.S.-Colombian-Ecuadorian tripartite framework and broader commitments made at the recent Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) in Panama raise an even larger question: what types of U.S. military cooperation will occur across the Americas, and under what authorities? The framework, in deepening the integration of U.S. military forces on land, may see those forces advising foreign military forces, participating in combined operational planning, and supporting or even participating in future combined patrols and lethal strikes inside Ecuadorian and Colombian territory, and potentially elsewhere in the region. The distinction is important because ‘security cooperation and security assistance’ can describe varying levels of activity, each governed by different authorities and with different levels of risk and consequences. U.S. military engagement with foreign security forces is best understood as four increasingly consequential forms of involvement, each with their own unique legal and political requirements and associated costs: training and equipping; advising and assisting; partner-enabled U.S. operations; and direct employment of U.S. forces. Training and equipping foreign security forces is the day-to-day practice of U.S. military security cooperation with foreign military forces. The purpose of the Global Train and Equip program is to conduct or support programs that provide training, services and equipment to the national security forces of foreign nations, with the goal of enhancing the capability of partner nations. The legislative authorities to provide such training include 10 U.S.C. 333 and require human rights vetting of foreign security forces under the Leahy Laws and inclusion of training components on the law of armed conflict, human rights, the rule of law, and civilian control of the military. The second, and deeper, level of partnership with foreign security forces is advise and assist. Such longer-term advisory teams were developed because shorter-duration Mobile Training Teams under traditional train-and-equip authorities “did not provide the continuity” nor customized solutions necessary to achieve strategic goals. The U.S. has previously created two such teams in Latin America: one in El Salvador in 1984 and one in Colombia in 2003. These activities are conducted under different authorities depending on the activity. Two examples are 10 U.S.C. 321 and 10 U.S.C. 322, if the primary purpose of the activity is training of U.S. Forces. The next level is partner-enabled U.S. operations. Under 10 U.S.C. 127e, the secretary of defense, with the concurrence of the U.S. ambassador or chief of mission in a given country, may provide support to foreign forces, irregular forces, groups, or individuals that support or facilitate authorized ongoing U.S. special operation forces to combat terrorism. At this level, the previously noted relationship is reversed, with foreign forces now supporting or facilitating a U.S. military operation. However, 10 U.S.C. 127e does not in itself provide the authority to introduce U.S. armed forces into hostilities; separate authorities, such as a specific Authorization for Use of Military Force, are required for that purpose. The highest, and most intense, level of interaction is direct U.S. force operational employment within a foreign country. Such operations may be conducted in accordance with Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which, under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, requires congressional notification within 48 hours after the employment of forces. A War Powers Resolution notification was made in September 2025 following the opening boat strike that preceded Operation Southern Spear, and in January 2026 for Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela. Beginning on March 3, 2026, U.S. and Ecuadorian military forces launched joint operations, named “Operation Total Extermination”, including a combined strike against Comandos de la Frontera inside Ecuadorian territory. On March 9th, the president notified Congress of the operation, “consistent with the War Powers Resolution.” The report was made under 50 U.S.C. §1543(a)(3) regarding substantial enlargement of U.S. forces already located in a foreign country, and not the §1543(a)(1) provision regarding introduction of U.S. forces into hostilities. On August 7, 2026, Ecuador’s Ministry of Defense announced, and posted photos from, Operation “Piraña del Norte,” in which Ecuadorian forces, with U.S. support, destroyed a clandestine facility in Esmeraldas; no War Powers Resolution notification specifically addressing that operation has yet been made public. With Colombia’s entry into the Shield of the Americas and plans to host a coalition intelligence and operational headquarters in Medellin, Ecuador’s expanding partnered military operations with U.S. forces, and the U.S. looking to operationalize its activities in the region, security cooperation relationships could span all four levels of categories and authorities, including combined military operations that may require additional War Powers Resolution notifications to Congress. The question remains: as the Trump administration seeks to expand U.S. joint military operations across Latin America, will it continue to rely on presidential war powers or seek congressional authorization?
Colombia’s Abelardo de la Espriella says soldiers killed key dissident leader
A prominent leader of the dissident factions of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who operated in a volatile area in the country’s southwest region was killed on Sunday during a military operation, said President Abelardo de la Espriella. The president said the death of a man known as “Felipe” or “Arcadio” was a “crushing blow” to the dissident faction led by a man who goes by “Ivan Mordisco”. De la Espriella posted a video on social media presumably showing a person in a body...
They laid down arms. Now ex-guerrillas in Colombia fear fate under new hardline president
‘Total peace’ plan of previous government led only 99 of Colombia’s 30,000 armed combatants to disarm, but new president Abelardo De la Espriella opposes peace agreements In mid-June, 99 guerrilla fighters were flown by helicopter to a small settlement in a rural area of southern Colombia where they lined up and, one by one, handed their weapons to government officials: rifles, pistols, machine guns and grenade launchers. They also stripped off their heavy tactical vests, field packs and camouflage uniforms, which were each piled into a bonfire to mark the beginning of a new life away from an armed conflict that has claimed nearly half a million lives in the last six decades. Continue reading...
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