President Juan Manuel Santos’ controversial handling of escalating protests in west Colombia is severely harming his ability to successfully promote a fiercely contested peace deal with leftist FARC rebels. While the president and his…
Colombia’s largest and longest-living rebel group, the FARC, will dissolve itself at the group’s 10th and final rebel conference, President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday. Following years of peace talks…
Speaking before Congress at the inauguration of Colombia’s new congressional year, President Juan Manuel Santos called on Colombians to unite behind peace talks with far-left FARC guerrillas. The Santos administration has…
A proposal to add a verse on peace to Colombia’s national anthem has stirred controversy after the opposition found the change was proposed by the president’s brother whose reported firm had received…
Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday he will seek a private talk with his his counterpart from Venezuela to come a quick reopening of the border between the two countries.
Peace talks with Colombia’s largest and oldest guerrilla group, the FARC, will be ready before July 20, President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday.
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos has received fierce criticism for allegedly fear mongering his country’s population into ratifying a pending peace deal with FARC guerrillas. The Santos administration has been holding peace…
Colombia’s president Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday expressed his country’s solidarity with the victims of a mass shooting at an Orlando, FL gay club that killed 50 people.
Colombia’s congress approved a law that judicially shields a pending peace deal with rebels group FARC from possible changes by later administrations. Opponents of the talks are furious.