Posted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 14, 2012 | News
Ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe impeded an operation to capture a top FARC guerrilla in Venezuela, claimed a former defense minister. “President Uribe prevented me from extracting Ivan Marquez from Venezuela, it was...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 13, 2012 | War and peace
Colombia’s congress has expressed its displeasure with the recent announcement that the peace talks with FARC guerrillas have been postponed four days. “We did not like the postponement of the talks by four days. Citizen...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 13, 2012 | News
One of Colombia’s former presidents paid for the extraofficial military training of paramilitary death squads, Israeli mercenary Yair Klein told a Colombian court Tuesday. Klein, convicted in Colombia for training Medellin...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 13, 2012 | War and peace
The peace process between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas has been postponed until November 19, according to a government press release Tuesday. “On Monday 19 in Havana, Cuba, negotiators will begin discussion on...
Read MorePosted by Esteban Refshauge | Nov 13, 2012 | Economy
Activists representing Colombia’s rural communities have implored European Union (E.U.) lawmakers to reconsider ratifying the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two economies, according to news-wire EFE Tuesday. Human rights...
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