Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño said Sunday that the latest FARC attack in Colombia’s Putumayo department was not launched from Ecuador. Patiño stressed that the attack, in which at least…
U.S. President Barack Obama denies that increasing drug-related violence in Mexico is comparable to Colombia’s fight against drug traffickers in the 1980s, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton controversially claimed.…
The foreign ministers of Colombia and Venezuela will meet before the end of September, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said Friday. According to a press release signed by Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro,…
Venezuela’s new Ambassador to Colombia Ivan Rincon said Wednesday that there must be dialogue between the two countries in order to avoid a return to their history of conflict. Rincon said…
The Venezuelan government named Ivan Rincon as its new ambassador to Colombia, replacing Gustavo Marquez, who held the post before the socialist nation severed ties with its neighbor in late…
Colombia’s Consul in Los Angeles Gabriel Jaime Restrepo passed away Saturday, the Colombian Ministry for Foreign Affairs announced. The 51-year-old had held the post since 2007 and had served in…
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says that his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos knows that the Colombian Caribbean archipelago of San Andres, Providencia and Serrana belongs to Nicaragua. “I am certain…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday stressed that his country is not “a sanctuary for violent armed groups” and reiterated his government’s willingness to re-establish “cordial and cooperative” relations with…
Ecuador’s Vice Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said at a press conference Wednesday that his country hopes to restore relations with neighbor Colombia before the end of the year. Lucas said that…