Uribe meets Obama
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Friday he had met with United States President Barack Obama in Toronto, Canada where the G8 are meeting. Uribe told reporters that Obama had a…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Friday he had met with United States President Barack Obama in Toronto, Canada where the G8 are meeting. Uribe told reporters that Obama had a…
In his first press conference as Colombia’s president-elect, Juan Manuel Santos comments on future international relations policy with neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela, as well as with ally the U.S. Santos announced…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says that Colombia’s foreign relations, particularly with Venezuela, will improve when his mandate ends, but that the next government will not stop protesting against the harboring of…
Juan Manuel Santos, who emerged from weekend voting as the front-runner in next month’s presidential runoff election, said Monday he hopes to restore good relations with Venezuela and Ecuador if…
Gimena Sanchez, Senior Associate for Colombia at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), says that despite the fact that Colombia is not a priority for the Obama administration, U.S.…
“Colombian foreign policy is facing one of its worst crises in a long time.” The sentence above is how a report published last week on Colombia’s foreign policy began. One…
Four of the eight Colombians arrested by Venezuela on espionage charges were released on Friday, after a judge found there was not enough evidence to take them to trial. According…
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro on Sunday told press his country is “most willing” to take the necessary steps to restore relations with neighboring Colombia. Maduro was responding to a…
Colombia’s Foreign Minister, Jaime Bermudez said this weekend that his government is willing to accept Venezuela’s invitation to sit down and talk about improving relations. “I invite Venezuelan Foreign Minister…