Colombia’s foreign minister on Tuesday defended the decision to appoint former Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias, who is under investigation for corruption, as ambassador to Italy. In an interview with…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe spoke Monday at Oxford University in England. According to Caracol, Uribe gave his talk “Colombia: From failing state to rising star” to more than 250…
The White House announced that U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos this Friday at a United Nations meeting in New York. According to…
Colombian security and intelligence agency DAS has had opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba under surveillance since 1979, according to testimony from a DAS official. Fabio Duarte Translaviña is one of eleven…
Guillermo Leon Saenz Vargas, alias ‘Alfonso Cano,’ will fall “in one way or another,” Colombian General Guillermo Suarez, in charge of the troops looking for Cano, said. In an interview…
Joaquin Perez, dubbed “the devils’ lawyer” for defending some of Colombia’s biggest paramilitaries, said in an interview with Uno that multinational companies had an interest in maintaining ties with Colombian…
Colombia’s prison authority on Monday ordered senator Javier Caceres to be moved to jail, following certification of his health by doctors. He had been rushed to the hospital for diabetes-related…
A U.N. representative says that negotiations alone will not bring peace to Colombia, and that the government needs to create the conditions for a “true” solution to the country’s…
Senator Javier Caceres, who was arrested Tuesday over parapolitics allegations and subsequently rushed to a Bogota hospital, has been declared in stable condition by the director of the hospital. Former Senate…