Former President Alvaro Uribe continued his denial of paramilitary ties in an interview with RCN Radio Friday. Uribe denied accusations that he helped found paramilitary groups during his 1995-1997 tenure as…
President Juan Manuel Santos called for a “rational” and “objective” discussion on drugs at the Summit of the Americas. In an interview with U.S. news network Univision, Santos said he…
The director of UNAIDS in Latin America requested that the Colombian government increase youth HIV awareness, after a report revealed that contraction of the virus has increased in Colombians aged…
A CNN interview with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos sparks a new flurry of angry tweets from his predecessor, Alvaro Uribe. The journalist who conducted the interview for Spanish CNN,…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office on Wednesday criticized the judge responsible for revoking the international arrest warrant of former Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo. The prosecutor for the office’s anti-corruption unit told…
Local authorities, analysts and statistics clashed with U.K. daily The Guardian Wednesday after the newspaper claimed Medellin’s security improvements over the past ten years had been “blown apart” by drug…
Colombia’s Congress passed a bill implementing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States which will alter the country’s copyright laws. With the new bill, Colombia ushers in a…
The coastal city of Cartagena is gearing up for the arrival of 31 heads of state, who will be in attendance for the upcoming Summit of the Americas on April…
A Spanish newspaper article claiming that there are 5,000 hitmen in Medellin is totally inaccurate and unfair, the city’s authorites said Tuesday. Medellin police commander General Yesid Vasquez accused the…