The cocaine, stored in dozens of 110-pound sacks inside a warehouse, was "camouflaged" in a mixture with plaster, officials said.

The orange level alert was issued as footage was released showing ash and smoke spewing from the volcano near the city of Popayan in Colombia.

Colombia says it has sent 26 members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Lev Tahor to the United States after determining that the rights of some of the children in the group are at risk. Authorities detained the group of 17 children and nine adults on November 22 following a raid on their hotel in Yarumal, a city in northwestern Colombia.

La autoridad migratoria colombiana informó el lunes sobre la expulsión del país de miembros del grupo judío ultraortodoxo Lev Tahor

Colombia is leading the charge to map out a global transition from oil, gas and coal at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. “The time is now. History demands that we act,” said Colombia’s Environment Minister Irene Vélez Torres earlier this week.

Decades of close security cooperation between Colombia and the United States were upended last month when Washington slapped sanctions on Gustavo Petro, accusing the guerrilla-turned leftist president of aiding drug traffickers.

Colombian immigration authorities say they have taken 17 children into protective custody after they were rescued from an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect whose members have been accused of sexually abusing and kidnapping minors in several countries.

Colombia has recovered the first artifacts from San José galleon, also known as the legendary "Holy Grail of shipwrecks." It is said to contain $20 billion worth of treasure.