‘Piedad Cordoba too close to Chavez’
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba’s close relation to Venezuela president Hugo Chavez is what made her not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, says Adam Isacson, program director of the Washington-based…
Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba’s close relation to Venezuela president Hugo Chavez is what made her not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, says Adam Isacson, program director of the Washington-based…
Marleny Orjuela, chairman of the Asfamipaz foundation, is Colombia’s best known representative of families whose loved ones are held by the FARC as political leverage. Often she finds herself criticizing…
Around fifty percent of Colombia’s pregnancies are unwanted, Caracol Radio reported earlier this week. The radio station told the audience that there are about three times as many unwanted pregnancies…
The saddest story in Colombia of these days: a shoemaker who lives with his two wives. The oldest, Luz Dary, has nine children with him and the youngest, Esther, 6. …
A few news items of these days: Colombia still is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Town councilors in the provinces Huila and Caquetá feel threatened by…
RCN and El Tiempo the past week reported on one document in a strikingly contradictory way, leaving nothing but confusion about who is telling the truth, who is lying and…
After the interview that Colombia’s president Álvaro Uribe gave to the BBC it is hard to deny: Alvaro Uribe is not a democrat. For quite a long time I have…
Don Mario’s announcement a few days ago that he wants to be a peace manager and is willing to demobilize 6000 of his boys and girls struck me as odd.…
Bolivia’s daily La Razón had an interesting feature on cocaine production in the country, last weekend. La Razón interviews ‘Julio’, a Bolivian drugs trafficker in jail, who has connections…