Santos rejects peace talk mediation offers
Colombia’s new Santos administration rejected any offers to mediate between the government and guerrilla groups such as the FARC or ELN, saying “Thanks, but no.” According to President Juan Manuel Santos,…
Colombia’s new Santos administration rejected any offers to mediate between the government and guerrilla groups such as the FARC or ELN, saying “Thanks, but no.” According to President Juan Manuel Santos,…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos offered a COP500 million reward ($272,000) for information leading to the capture of those responsible for the car bomb that caused millions of dollars of…
Colombia’s peso fell and headed for its biggest weekly decline since May after President Juan Manuel Santos said the currency’s rally is “worrisome.” The peso slid 0.6% to 1,835.56 per…
Colombia’s peso fell the most in a month after President Juan Manuel Santos challenged the Central Bank to take steps to ease a rally that drove the local currency to…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visits the site of the bomb blast that rattled Bogota early Thursday morning and condemned the incident as a terrorist attack. Santos arrived at the…
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she hopes Colombia and Venezuela’s agreement to fix their fractured relations will resolve “longstanding issues” between the neighbor nations. Speaking in Washington on…
The governments of France, Brazil and Mexico on Wednesday expressed their satisfaction that Colombia and Venezuela agreed to work towards the normalization of diplomatic and economic ties at a bilateral…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez announced Tuesday that their countries had re-established ties that were broken by Chavez after former President Alvaro Uribe accused…
Senator Piedad Cordoba said Monday that she has no intention of entering peace negotiations with guerrillas that could affect the Colombian government’s efforts to settle the nation’s ongoing conflict, reports…