Pinto replaces Pearl as peace commissioner
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has accepted Frank Joseph Pearl Gonzalez’s resignation from the post of high commissioner for peace, and named Maria Eugenia Pinto to be his successor. Until the…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has accepted Frank Joseph Pearl Gonzalez’s resignation from the post of high commissioner for peace, and named Maria Eugenia Pinto to be his successor. Until the…
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced Sunday that his country will make its neighbor a peace offer at the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) summit on Thursday. Speaking near…
The Colombian Prosecutor General’s Office on Monday asked the nation’s Institute for Rural Development to seize and redistribute 36 properties linked to paramilitary commander Rodrigo Tovar Pupo, alias “Jorge 40.” The…
The Spanish government Monday offered its full support for the forthcoming administration of Colombian President-elect Juan Manuel Santos and expressed a desire to “work together to achieve peace” in the Andean nation. Spanish Prime Minister…
Opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba sent a letter to outgoing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe asking him to carry out a “humanitarian exchange” of FARC hostages for incarcerated guerrillas before his term…
Colombia is Latin America’s most violent nation, according to the Global Peace Index‘s (GPI) 2010 report, which ranks the Andean nation as the 138th most peaceful nation out of the…
The head of the National Reparation and Reconciliation Commission (NRRC) told El Tiempo on Thursday that the deadline, which is Thursday, should be extended to accommodate the thousands of victims…
Members of Colombia’s Catholic church say that they will not stop holding peace talks with guerrilla group the FARC and have asked the government not to criminalize such behavior, Caracol…
Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana said Thursday that during his government Juan Manuel Santos was not authorized to meet with FARC leader alias “Raul Reyes.” According to Pastrana, Santos had…