The new Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, is vowing to step up his predecessor’s military crackdown against leftist rebels, following an attack this week that left 14 police officers dead.
President Santos met Friday with top generals in the southern state of Caqueta, where the officers were killed in a roadside bomb [...]
Chavez want to give political credibility to FARC.
Before the last summit of the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez proposed to country members of Unasur the “need for peace in Colombia after decades of violence, and for this a political negotiation with the guerrillas is essential”. [...]
A high court in Colombia has voided an accord with the United States that would allow an increased U.S. presence on seven Colombian military bases. The ruling on Tuesday by the Constitutional Court declared the agreement signed by outgoing President Alvaro Uribe unconstitutional because it bypassed approval of the Congress.
The agreement was signed in October and [...]
Juan Manuel Santos was sworn in Saturday as Colombia’s new president, vowing to unify his country around the goals of prosperity for all and of thwarting the nation’s leftist rebels.
“It is possible to have a peaceful Colombia, a Colombia with no guerrillas, and we will prove that by reason or by force,” Santos said in [...]
President Alvaro Uribe may go down as one of Colombia’s greatest presidents, with his policies for tackling guerrillas and drug-traffickers now a permanent fixture in the country.
“We were on the point of being a failed state,” said Maria Victoria Llorente of the think tank Fundacion Ideas para La Paz.
“There was only one item on the political [...]
Security issues and concerns over a developing military standoff between Colombia and Venezuela dominated talks of the Mercosur customs union, called in San Juan, Argentina, to advance a much-delayed economic and political integration agenda, reported news agency UPI.
Senior delegates said the talks would continue Tuesday to try and reach consensus on key unresolved issues between the [...]
The United States threw its support behind key ally Colombia Friday in a row with Venezuela that has seen the South American neighbors break ties amid escalating military tensions.
Colombia’s allegations that Venezuela was harboring 1,500 Colombian rebels in camps on its territory — the trigger for the dispute — “need to be taken very seriously,” [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has severed diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia after Bogota accused his country of harboring leftist guerrillas.
President Chavez made the announcement on national television Thursday, saying he was forced to sever all relations because Colombia claims he has failed to act against rebels who allegedly have taken shelter in Venezuelan territory. Mr. [...]
At least 16 people were killed in attacks by leftist rebels as presidential elections in Colombia got underway Sunday, government officials said.
Members of the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) shot dead three soldiers who were transporting voting papers in a remote part of the province of Meta, Defence Minister [...]
Partido de la U presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos claimed on Friday that it was he who put an end to the phenomenon of extrajudicial killings by the military during his tenure as defense minister, reports El Espectador.
According to Santos, he inherited the scandal – known as “false positives,” in which soldiers would kill innocent [...]
