Sentence:  Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna's two years in Portugal, where she <WSD>decamped</WSD> in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica's football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To disappear suddenly and secretly.