VP-elect opens doors to FARC dialogue
Colombia’s Vice President-elect Angelino Garzon said Saturday that the incoming administration of President-elect Juan Manuel Santos is disposed to open doors to a dialogue with the FARC, as long as…
Colombia’s Vice President-elect Angelino Garzon said Saturday that the incoming administration of President-elect Juan Manuel Santos is disposed to open doors to a dialogue with the FARC, as long as…
Colombian authorities arrested Argemino Aguirre Montes alias “Camilo,” who is believed to be the leader of the “Los Paisas” drug trafficking organization in the northern Cordoba department. Camilo is believed…
The Colombian government announced that it will provide assistance to inhabitants of the towns of Ortega and El Guamo in the Tolima department, whose property was damaged during the earthquake that…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe lashed out at the Supreme Court after Magistrate Yesid Ramirez asked the nation’s prosecutor general to open an investigation into allegations that the president’s son, Tomas…
A report released by U.S. NGO the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) finds an “alarming link” between Colombian military units that received U.S. funding and cases of extrajudicial killings or “false…
An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook central and south Colombia Thursday afternoon. The quake was felt in the nation’s capital Bogota, as well as the departments of…
Colombia Tuesday offered the commander of the armed forces, General Freddy Padilla, the role as the Andean nation’s new ambassador to the United Nations. Padilla has said he will consider…
Colombian authorities arrested Luis Fernando Mendez, alias “Didier,” who was one of the guerrillas that made up FARC leader “Alfonso Cano’s” security ring. Didier was arrested in the southern Colombian…
The presidents of Brazil and Nicaragua call for “calm,” as feuding neighbors Colombia and Venezuela head to a Union of South American nations summit, where the diplomatic crisis between the…