Colombian Bishop Jesus Emilio Jaramillo, who was killed by the guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) in 1989, may soon be beatified if the pope approves, church leaders said…
“We live next to the world’s largest drug consumer, and all the world wants to sell them drugs through our door and our window,” Mexican President Felipe Calderon lamented in…
Caucasia is the kind of backwater we’d like to pretend doesn’t exist. It is too hot for puffy-eyed women to do much except sit by the road, selling limp pieces…
It’s about time that Colombia made public its intelligence about FARC presence on Venezuelan soil. It is not evidence that indicates active support from Chavez’s government for the guerrillas, but…
Both Ingrid Betancourt and Oliver Stone have got some explaining to do. Betancourt must face the wrath of old media (“Shameful,” blasted leading newsweekly Semana) and new (“We are sick…
With Juan Manuel Santos set to assume office, today is a good day to be looking towards the future. In many senses, the problems he is inheriting – particularly those…
The military’s headquarters in Puerto Berrio, Antioquia, is based in an old, colonial-style hotel by the Magdalena River. On some walls hang yellowed pictures of dinners and weddings, events the…
An outspoken politician mysteriously disappears from his country home over the weekend, a blurry photo, depicting him blindfolded and gagged, circulates through social media sites; his family begs authorities not…
New intelligence collected by Colombia’s central intelligence agency, DAS, emphasizes how and where FARC combatants take shelter from security forces in Veneuzela. High ranking rebel combatants in particular are based…