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Ecuador deports more than 600 Colombian inmates as Bogota cries foul

  • Ecuador has deported around 600 Colombian prisoners, as confirmed by Colombian acting foreign minister Rosa Villavicencio, who stated that 603 people arrived, including 60 women and 543 men.
  • Colombian authorities protested the deportation, arguing it was done without prior agreement and violated international law.
  • Ecuador's foreign ministry asserted that Bogota was informed about the deportation plan on July 8, prior to the deportation.
  • Colombian President Gustavo Petro opposed the deportation, emphasizing that a joint plan was necessary to safeguard the prisoners' rights.
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Colombia, for its part, activated an assistance plan and requested additional judicial information

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Ecuador deports more than 600 Colombian inmates as Bogota cries foul

Colombian authorities said Saturday that Ecuador had deported about 600 Colombian prisoners via a land border crossing, after Bogota protested the action came without prior agreement.

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Quito, Ecuador.- Ecuador deported hundreds of Colombian prisoners to their country of origin on Saturday as part of a measure that seeks to reduce prison overcrowding, but was questioned by Bogotá on the grounds that it was done unilaterally. Ecuador's prison control agency specified on Saturday in a statement that began the deportation of 700 out of a total of 1,000 Colombian prisoners who will hand over to Colombia and reaffirmed "the commitme…

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Ecuador deports hundreds of Colombian inmates as Bogota cries foul

Ecuadoran authorities said Saturday they had deported hundreds of Colombian prisoners via a land border crossing, after Bogota protested that the move came without prior agreement.

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In the midst of diplomatic tensions between Ecuador and Colombia, after the first, unilaterally, decided to initiate the process of deportation of 603 Colombian citizens in that country's prisons, the Government of Colombia receives the nationals in a coordinated operation headed by the Foreign Ministry.

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Los Ángeles Press broke the news in on Saturday, July 26, 2025.
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