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ANAHEIM, Calif. Playing soccer at an Anaheim park is a routine summer activity, but for 17-year-old Sarah whose name Spectrum News is changing for her protection the past few days have been anything but ordinary because she and her 13-year-old sister, Victoria, arrived at LAX from Colombia just days ago.
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Not only has the pandemic caused an increase in children entering the foster care system worldwide, but it has also led the number of potential adoptive parents to drop
KidSave Colombia representatives said the government along with other entities have been forced to add new beds and even open new orphanages to cope with the increase
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RITICS OF COLOMBIA’S peace deal with the
FARC rebel group, which in 2016 ended a 52-year war with the government, complain that it lets the guerrillas off too easily. The fault, in their view, lies with the “special jurisdiction for peace” (
JEP), an institution set up under the accord to investigate and judge crimes committed during the conflict. The Democratic Centre party, founded by Álvaro Uribe, who fought the
FARC as Colombia’s president in the early 2000s and is the mentor of the incumbent, Iván Duque, claims that the