Santos-Chavez meeting postponed
A scheduled meeting between Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was postponed Tuesday amid a very busy week of diplomacy for the socialist president, reports Terra. The meeting…
A scheduled meeting between Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was postponed Tuesday amid a very busy week of diplomacy for the socialist president, reports Terra. The meeting…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon agree at the Tuxtla Summit in Cartagena to strengthen cooperation in the fight against drug trafficking, reports news agency EFE. The two…
Following a meeting on Monday with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg said that the Californian marijuana legalization vote would not affect U.S. drug…
Ingrid Betancourt’s abduction by the FARC is to form the basis of two new Hollywood films, reports Hollywood Reporter. One will be based on Betancourt’s own account of her six…
The United Nations (U.N.) says that 1,500 displaced people in Colombia have been killed in the last three years, and that many victims of displacement are still too afraid to…
Colombian ambassador to Austria Freddy Padilla told the United Nations (U.N.) that Colombia should be seen as a “model” in the worldwide fight against organized crime. Padilla, who under Alvaro…
A Colombian judge sentence the mayor of Curillo, a municipality in the Caqueta department, to 40 years in prison for ordering the murder of journalist Hernando Salas Rojas in 2009,…
Colombia’s Congress approves the allocation of funds for the 2011 government budget at some COP147.3 trillion ($81.3 billion). Finance Minister Juan Carlos Echeverry called the budget “austere.” The Conservative Party’s…
Senator Piedad Cordoba, who last was month barred from holding public office for 18 years for allegedly collaborating with the FARC, says she will reactivate hostage release negotiations with guerrilla…