Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s political backing for Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas will make it harder to secure a deal to release dozens of hostages held by rebel leaders, the Colombian government…
Judge Edmundo Lopez now has 15 days to sentence former Lt Col Byron Carvajal and the 14 soldiers who were under his command when the policemen were killed. Prosecutors want…
Justice minister Carlos Holguin Sardi said to be “worried that they are recording the president of the Republic”. “The seriousness is not in the content of the conversation, which is…
Geologist Jorge Andres Sierra, who was in the captivity of the leftist ELN, went into exile soon after his release by the group.Sierra has accused the Venezuelan government of having…
“Today I spoke with … Sarkozy about some issues, above all the humanitarian exchange” of hostages for jailed rebels between the Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels, Chávez said on…
The program, which will run for three years starting April, will provide food to local refugees, schoolchildren, trainees, workers, vulnerable communities and communities hosting refugee camps.WFP and its 10 field…
“Although it does not share some terms of the call (to march), it guarantees whoever to mobilize (…) the exercise of that right and calls to the organizers of that…
The former commanders convicted of these crimes will be immediately extradited if they are wanted by the United States, said Uribe.Colombian Vice Interior Minister Guillermo Reyes said on Wednesday the…