Obama signs US-Colombia trade pact
U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the free trade agreement with Colombia Friday, marking the end of seven years of legislative effort. The president also signed similar trade agreements…
U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law the free trade agreement with Colombia Friday, marking the end of seven years of legislative effort. The president also signed similar trade agreements…
President Juan Manuel Santos hopes that the left-wing guerrilla organization FARC can follow the example of Basque separatist group ETA, which recently announced the end of its armed campaign against…
A nation-wide student strike against higher education reform costs Colombia $5.6 million each day, said the country’s education minister Thursday. “The cost of the strike is enormous because one day…
An attack from the leftist guerrilla group FARC left at least six soldiers dead, two injured and another seven missing in southwest Colombia, authorities said Friday. According to newspaper El…
Former paramilitary leaders who have been extradited to the U.S. should serve the remainder of their sentence in Colombia, a commission from the Organization of American States (OAS) proposed. Colombian media…
Police arrested a man suspected of killing Colombian soccer player Edison Chara after a card game near the outskirts of Cali, the capital of the western department of Cauca. Colombian…
Paramilitary fighters who demobilized under the Justice and Peace Law will be released if not tried by 2014, the Organization of American States (OAS) warned Colombia’s Justice Ministry Thursday. “By…
A landslide in central Colombia destroyed the main water supply pipeline of the capital city of the Caldas department, leaving 360,000 residents without water service, Colombian media reported Thursday. The…
The neo-paramilitary drug trafficking organization ERPAC is negotiating its demobilization with Colombian government officials, newspaper El Tiempo reported. According to the newspaper, the leader of ERPAC, Jose Eberto Lopez Montero,…