More dogs poisoned in Mexico City, but "police indifferent"

Some 30 or possibly more dogs were poisoned in the Xochimilco sector of Mexico City in the first 10 months of 2026, and perhaps 50 in 2025, echoing recent pet killings in the capital's prosperous Condesa district though this time, without police concern, La Jornada reported on 1 November. The main zone was in San Luis Tlaxialtemalco in the Xochimilco sector, traditionally the capital's horticultural hub. The dogs were in fact suspected to have been poisoned to avoid their trampling on crops, using poisoned chicken skin, the daily stated. Yet local animal rights activist Karina Cortés was cited as complaining that nothing was being done by police or the courts, certainly in comparison with their mobilization in the Condesa and Roma districts, homes to wealthy Mexicans and numerous foreigners. Local dog owners, she said, were also doing little, being unaware of their rights and the fact that killing animals was a jailable offence. 

Colombian guerrilla turned peacemaker dies in Bogotá

Antonio Navarro Wolff, once a member of the M19 Marxist guerrillas that included Colombia's last president, Gustavo Petro, died in Bogotá on 1 November aged 78 years. He joined M19 (19th April Movement) in the 1970s, becoming its chief in 1990 but only to lead the group in peace talks with the government, CNN reported. Swiftly morphing into a democrat, peacemaker and respected parliamentarian in a country hooked on violence, Wolff helped pen Colombia's 1991 constitution before playing public and parliamentary roles in following decades. A bomb attack in Cali in 1985 left him without his left leg and with facial injuries, and in 2015 his 19-year old son died, perhaps killing himself. Politicians of various hues paid him homage. The conservative former president, Álvaro Uribe, expressed his condolences, writing he had had a "respectful relationship" with Wolff while president in 2002-10. Another conservative former president, Iván Duque, said the two built a friendship based on "sincerity, frankness and mutual respect."