Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday met with Brazilian presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, who promises to combat guerrillas and drug trafficking on the shared border if elected in October. According…
Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera on Tuesday proposed adding an extra 20,000 police to the 155,000 already on foot patrol, in order to combat urban security issues in cities around…
Venezuela will send extra troops to the frontier with Colombia to increase security in the troubled border region, the country’s defense minister announced Monday. Minister Carlos Mata told state television channel…
Ecuadorean Vice Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas Monday stressed the “important symbolic role” of the meeting scheduled between Colombia’s and Ecuador’s foreign ministers in the Colombian border town of Ipiales on…
South American presidents on Tuesday called for a meeting of regional leaders “as soon as possible” to discuss a dispute between Colombia and Venezuela over leftist rebels. At a summit…
Bogota denied Saturday that Colombia plans to attack Venezuela, after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dispatched troops to the border, claiming that Colombia threatened its neighbor with war. “Colombia has never…
Traffic flow at the Colombia-Venezuela border has returned to normal one day before the Union of South American States (UNASUR) meeting, which will address the Colombian allegations that Venezuela is…
The Colombian government Tuesday declared 30 day “social emergency” in 37 municipalities that border Venezuela and suspended taxes on all commercial transactions, in a bid to deal with the economic crisis…
Members of the Wayuu indigenous population who inhabit the Colombia-Venezuela border regions have reported sightings of FARC guerrillas, according to a report by El Heraldo. According to the newspaper, villagers from…