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At least 16 fishers from San Andrés and Providence said to have gone missing since January after US began attacking boats in Caribbean and eastern Pacific

Officially, the islands of San Andrés and Providence belong to Colombia – but the language spoken by most of the local Afro-descendant population is not Spanish.

Walking among brightly painted wooden houses raised above the ground and lined with verandas – architecture more reminiscent of the Caribbean and the southern US – the language most commonly heard is Creole, a distinct variety of Caribbean English.