Uribe: FARC responds to dialogue with terrorism
The government is open to dialogue with FARC, but the only response so far has been terrorism, President Uribe told Caracol Radio Thursday. Uribe cited the December assasination of Luis…
The government is open to dialogue with FARC, but the only response so far has been terrorism, President Uribe told Caracol Radio Thursday. Uribe cited the December assasination of Luis…
Colombia and Afghanistan are the Tweedledum and Tweedledee of drug-funded insurgencies. Both nations have weak central governments and a flourishing narcotrafficking trade thus far unaffected by crop fumigation schemes. Osama…
20 Colombian tourists are among the approximately 2,000 people trapped at Peru’s famed Machu Picchu ruins due to heavy rains and mudslides. Colombia has offered to send helicopters to help…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s proposal to pay students in Medellin a monthly stipend if they provide intelligence to the military is causing controversy among political commentators. Uribe said on Tuesday…
Colombia’s success in battling drug traffickers and the FARC insurgency provides many lessons for Afghanistan, Colombia’s foreign minister said Wednesday. “Colombia has learned a lot, which is why it’s our…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court has asked the government to justify each one of the planned presidential decrees intended to overhaul the country’s struggling state-run health care system. Among the ten proposed…
The Colombian military on Monday was found guilty of another “false positive” murder, and the state must pay $75,000 in damages to the victim’s family. Six years ago, the military…
Aid to Colombia’s displaced population increased to $814 million in 2009, President Alvaro Uribe announced this Monday. The Head of State stressed that aid has grown from about $40 million…
Colombia’s biofuel industry is increasingly coming under scrutiny for human rights abuses. Palm tree oil companies in particular have been accused of using using illegal militias to seize land from…