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Contraloría inspecciona sistema de salud en medio de protestas y crisis nacional

April 9, 2026·22 min·1 clip

Gabriel Acosta Navas, 31, a leader of Junior de Barranquilla's supporter group, was stabbed 16 times by Real Cartagena fans after the Copa Libertadores match between Junior and Palmeiras—and died in the early hours of the following morning.

1. Mañanas Blue on BLU Radio presents its midday news bulletin for Colombia, directed by Camila Zuluaga and co-anchored by Lobo Dan Wilches. 2. The reporting team includes Jessica Gutiérrez (health crisis), Jalila Peña (judicial), Alejandro Muñoz (environment), José Palma (crime), Nelson Murillo (Quindío), William Sánchez (Venezuela), Santiago Saray and Oscar (sports), and César Morino (international). 3. The episode's lead story is the Contraloría General's unannounced judicial police action at the offices of Nueva EPS and the Superintendencia Nacional de Salud to assess the financial state of Colombia's health system. 4. Separately, the Superintendencia de Salud named provisional interventors for four EPS entities after the Procuraduría sanctioned four officials connected to those insurers. 5. Protesters have blocked the La Calera–Bogotá road for at least five hours at the Santiamén sector, driven by opposition to increased property tax assessments linked to the multipurpose cadastral update; public buses rerouted and charged passengers 3,500 pesos for improvised transit. 6. A Javeriana University student named Silvana was interviewed at the blockade, saying she had to leave urgently and hoped the protest would end before her return. 7. The Comisión Nacional de Disciplina Judicial opened a disciplinary inquiry against prosecutors María Cristina Patiño and Gabriel Sandoval for allegedly delaying the filing of the accusation against ex-Finance Minister Ricardo Bonilla, whose detention expired after 120 days from the December 1 arraignment. 8. Defensoría del Pueblo head Iris Marín marked Colombia's National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims by calling for stronger reparation policies and noting more than 10 million people have been affected by the country's armed conflict. 9. In Antioquia, a windstorm in the rural areas of Ituango damaged roofs of at least 50 families across 11 veredas, and a creek overflow in Caracolí affected 30 homes in the Arenales and Clavenillas sectors. 10. The Corporación Autónoma Regional del Valle del Cauca documented illegal mining operations with dredges and heavy machinery destroying the Río Dagua riverbed between Lobo Guerrero and Buenaventura; access was blocked by armed groups' presence. 11. In Barranquilla, inmate Omar Acuña Machado was killed with a hammer and knife inside cell block 10 of penitentiary El Bosque by fellow prisoner Francisco Palacio, who reportedly sought revenge for the death of his sister approximately 10 years ago, allegedly at Acuña's hands. 12. Farmers and residents in the Quindío department protested on the road to the Túnel de La Línea against property tax increases, with coordinator Sandra Giraldo citing absurdly high assessments for farms near Parque del Café. 13. Venezuelan public sector workers marched to Miraflores palace earning a monthly salary of 130 bolivars ($0.30 US), demanding a wage aligned with the cost of the basic food basket; security forces blocked and rerouted them. 14. Acting Venezuelan president Delsi Rodríguez announced a minimum wage increase effective May 1; simultaneously, American Airlines announced the resumption of daily Miami-Caracas flights on an Embraer 175 starting April 30. 15. In the Copa Libertadores, Gabriel Acosta Navas, 31, a leader of Junior de Barranquilla's barra Los Cuervos, was stabbed 16 times by Real Cartagena fans after the Junior vs. Palmeiras match in Cartagena and died early the following morning. 16. The match was historic: the first Copa Libertadores game in Cartagena, hosted at Jaime Morón stadium after Mayor Dumek Turbay invested 8 billion pesos in its renovation. 17. Reporter Oscar explains that Real Cartagena and Junior de Barranquilla hold a deep-seated barra brava rivalry on Colombia's Caribbean coast, with similar violence patterns in Valledupar and against Unión Magdalena fans. 18. In international news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced direct Israel-Lebanon peace talks to begin the following week at the US State Department in Washington, focused on Hezbollah disarmament and bilateral relations. 19. The announcement came while Israeli bombardments on Lebanon continued despite a fragile US-Iran ceasefire, which a Lebanese official described as a 'separate track' parallel to the Iran-US Islamabad talks. 20. The episode closes with brief Europa League and Copa Sudamericana updates: John Lucumí's Bologna hosts Aston Villa, Crystal Palace's Daniel Muñoz and Jefferson Lerma face Fiorentina, and América de Cali and Santa Fe begin their continental campaigns.

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