“The troops will start returning on Tuesday and will be allowed to go on Easter leave,” the Venezuelan leader announced late Saturday.Chávez had deployed 10 army battalions to the Colombian…
Clashes broke out among América de Cali’s “Red Baron” fan club in the 82nd minute of the match with Deportívo de Cali and spread onto the field and around the…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a public appeal to the head of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas on Saturday to release high-profile French-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt. “From here I send a request…
‘Rojas’, who was Ríos security chief, shot his boss Friday. The Colombian army has identified the body of the FARC leader, before taking it to the Colombian city of Pereira.…
Leftist-led allies Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela cut ties with Colombia and condemned the raid, which killed more than 20 guerrillas. Ecuador and Venezuela also sent troops to their borders with…
Several media had reported there was insecurity about the fact if the release, which, according to the Ecuadorian minister had been planned for last Friday, would go on or not.
Rodríguez Bautista, along with two others, was sentenced for aggravated homocide, aggravated kidnapping for extortion, theft, personal injury en rebellion. The ELN boss was also ordered to pay restitution to…
Earlier there had been heated exchanges between the heads of state at the Rio Group summit in the Dominican Republic.The crisis had threatened political stability in Latin America.Venezuela and Ecuador…