Uribe and Chavez: Specimens of male chauvinist diplomacy
Alvaro Uribe and Hugo Chavez have had yet another heated spat in Cancun. Even if the host president, Felipe Calderon, organises the creation of a “group of friends” to help…
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Cordoba: Hostage release only lacks a date
Senator Piedad Cordoba on Tuesday announced that negotiations to secure two kidnapped Colombian soldiers from FARC only lack a date for the release to be carried out. The liberal senator,…
Colombia opposes new LatAm bloc
Plans approved on Monday at the Rio Group Summit in Mexico to form a new intergovernmental union of American nations, excluding the U.S. and Canada, did not receive the support…
Plaza Bolivar lit up by protests against re-election referendum
Dozens of people gathered outside the Colombian Constitutional Court to shine lights on the government building, in a peaceful protest against changing the constitution to allow President Uribe’s re-election, reported…
Uribe criticises defense minister’s comments about Venezuela
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe on Monday asked his Defense Minister Gabriel Silva to refrain from making public statements about Venezuela without first consulting him. Uribe was responding to a statement…
Uribe and Chavez lock horns in Mexico
Months of simmering tension between Colombia and Venezuela exploded into a shouting match between Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Rio Group Summit in Mexico…
Colombia and Ecuador set out road map to normalize relations
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa set out a road map to begin normalizing broken diplomatic relations between their two nations at a summit in Mexico on…
Fanny Lu hearts President Uribe
Colombian singer, actress and noted political commentator Fanny Lu declared her support for President Alvaro Uribe in a Chilean radio interview on Monday. The Cali-born entertainer, taking a break from…
Cauca Governor: Indigenous communities help narco-traffickers
Following FARC attacks on three towns in his department over the weekend, Guillermo Gonzalez, governor of Colombia’s Cauca department, told reporters on Monday that local indigenous communities were aiding narco-traffickers…