BOGOTA—Colombia’s government is trying to speed up the evacuation of some 2,500 families living closest to the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which is being monitored for a possible eruption, but some residents are refusing to leave. The volcano’s eruption in 1985 killed more than 25,000 people in Colombia’s biggest-ever natural disaster, with avalanches of earth…

MIAMI—Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S. prison, his lawyer said Wednesday. In 2020, a judge had denied Rodríguez Orejuela, who was in his 80s, early release on compassionate…

BOGOTA—Carlos Ardila Lulle, one of Colombia’s richest businessmen and owner of a conglomerate including sugar mills, broadcasters, and a soccer team, died on Friday of natural causes aged 91 years old, the company said. Ardila Lulle, who was born in 1930 in the city of Bucaramanga, died in a hospital in Cali, Colombia’s third-largest city,…