Chavez backs out of Mercosur summit
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Monday evening that he will not attend Tuesday’s Mercosur summit in Argentina, despite the fact that the Colombia-Venezuela crisis has been bumped to the top…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Monday evening that he will not attend Tuesday’s Mercosur summit in Argentina, despite the fact that the Colombia-Venezuela crisis has been bumped to the top…
Venezuela’s Prosecutor General Luisa Ortega said Sunday that Colombia’s evidence of guerrilla presence in Venezuela, presented to the Organization of American States (OAS), lacks legal validity. “You can’t go to…
Many Uribistas were surprised when the international media and, to a lesser extent, the Colombian public reacted skeptically to Colombia’s recent decision to “expose” the FARC’s presence in Venezuela. According…
Relations between Colombia and Venezuela worsened after Colombian President Alvaro Uribe “forgot” to congratulate his Venezuelan counterpart with his 56th birthday on Wednesday. Chavez, who had been “waiting for any…
The presidents of Brazil and Nicaragua call for “calm,” as feuding neighbors Colombia and Venezuela head to a Union of South American nations summit, where the diplomatic crisis between the…
Colombia’s Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez says that it was his nation’s “political and constitutional responsibility”to submit allegations that Colombian leftist guerrillas are hiding out in Venezuela to the Organization of American…
Colombia’s President-elect Juan Manuel Santos and Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez pledged to work together to promote unity in Latin America, during a meeting in the Argentinian capital city of Buenos…
In the lead up to Thursday’s Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) meeting, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister will tour South American condemning Colombia’s allegations of a guerrilla presence in Venezuela. Foreign…
My column about no honeymoon between Colombia and Venezuela seems to have become true faster than I expected. Granted, I was talking about the relationship under the Santos presidency, but…