Yopal is a municipality and capital city of the department of Casanare in Colombia. And the second most populated and important city in the Orinoquía region after Villavicencio.
El Espectador is a newspaper of national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on March 22, 1887, in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá. It transition from a daily to a weekly edition in 2001, following a financial crisis, and again with a daily released since May 11, 2008, a comeback which had been long rumoured, in tabloid format. From 1997 to 2011 its main shareholder was Julio Mario Santo Domingo.
Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera is a Colombian politician who served as the Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of President Iván Duque, and previously under President Álvaro Uribe. In May 2021 he resigned office over the protests surrounding a controversial tax reform in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was a Colombian lawyer and politician, who served as Minister of Justice under President Belisario Betancur, and was assassinated by orders of Pablo Escobar because of his work as Minister in prosecuting cocaine traffickers mainly belonging to the Medellín Cartel.
Agustín Julio Castro is a Colombian Association football former player, who played as a goalkeeper.
Carlos Eduardo Medellín Becerra is a Colombian lawyer and diplomat and has served as Minister of Justice of Colombia and as Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom.
Bryan Visbal is a Colombian musician, singer and songwriter who is the former vocalist of the band Los De Adentro.
Jairo Luís Zulbarán, known as Calanche, was a Colombian football forward.
Luis Hurtado is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
Colombia competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018. The country returned to the Winter Olympics after last competing in 2010, which also marked its debut. The Colombian team consisted of three males and one female, competing in three different sports.
Dejusticia is a non-profit legal organization established in 2005 that promotes human rights and the social rule of law in Colombia, Latin America and other regions of the Global South.
Yair Andrés Ibargüen Murillo is a Colombian footballer who currently plays as a defender for Liga Dominicana de Fútbol club Atlántico FC.
José David Rivera, known as DJ Pope or Pope, has been the partner and DJ of J Balvin for more than 15 years. He is involved with the reggaeton scene in Medellin, which is sometimes called the "Capital of Reggaeton" in Colombia.
Alfredo Cuello Baute better known as "Ape Cuello" is a Colombian politician and business administrator. He has served as a member in the House Representative of Colombia. He represented the Cesar Department with the endorsement of the Colombian Conservative Party since 2002. During the 2014 legislative elections he was elected with 32,119 votes and in the 2018 legislative elections he obtained 55,615 this being the largest vote for the House of Representatives in the history of the Department of Cesar.
Within Colombia, the term Música popular is often used to refer to a folk music genre originated between the 1930s and 1940s in the Paisa Region, in the northwestern part of the country, influenced primarily by Mexican folk music, as well as Argentinian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian to a lesser degree. Eventually it lost these combinations and currently is a mixture of different genres of Regional Mexican.
Sofía Osío Luna is a Colombian model, fashion marketing and communicator and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Colombia 2022. She represented Colombia at Miss International 2023 competition.
Laura Janeth Acuña Ayala is a Colombian lawyer, television presenter, and model. She was the presenter of the Muy Buenos Días magazine of RCN Televisión and presenter of the RCN Show of Noticias RCN in the 5:30 a.m. broadcast. In 2021, she participated in the musical program La Voz Kids on Caracol Televisión.
Daniella Donado Visbal is a Colombian actress, presenter, and model, recognized for her participation in television series in that country.
Angélica Monsalve Gaviria is a Colombian human rights activist and a lawyer with a master's degree in procedural law from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. She is currently serving as district attorney in Bogotá, a seat she has held since 2017.
Mery Janneth Gutiérrez is a lawyer specialized in contract law, specialist in management and ICT, as well as in insolvency regime appointed as Minister of ICT of Colombia on August 7, 2022. She is currently serving as Manager of Programar Televisión and legal adviser.
