The Colombian administration has announced that over the next four years, $43 billion from the recently approved National Development Plan will be spent on peace consolidation programs. According to the…
Colombian Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera arrived in Miami Monday on an official visit. Before meeting his U.S. counterpart Robert Gates in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Rivera will visit Miami and Fort…
Colombia and Chile will form a strategic alliance for bilateral development and will intensify trade between the two countries and Peru, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Chilean counterpart…
Following a series of rebel attacks against the security forces, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera announced the government’s new strategy to combat leftist guerrillas. Interior and Justice Minister German Vargas Lleras…
Colombia’s Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera and his Chinese counterpart General Liang Guanglie met on Monday to expand existing defense and security pacts. As part of the pact, China agreed to…
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…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez will meet in the near future to discuss security and defense issues, Colombia’s foreign minister announced Tuesday. The presidents’…
Colombia’s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos announced Wednesday that his defense minister will be former Liberal senator Rodrigo Rivera, while Cambio Radical’s German Vargas Lleras will manage the Andean nation’s portfolio…
Officials from Colombia and Peru will meet Friday to discuss developing a system of information sharing, as part of a plan for international cooperation in the fight against terrorism and…