FARC sought to kidnap abroad: Santos
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC planned to kidnap people outside Colombia, the country’s President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday. According to Santos, documents found on the computers of slain rebel…
Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC planned to kidnap people outside Colombia, the country’s President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday. According to Santos, documents found on the computers of slain rebel…
Computers seized at the camp of assumed dead FARC commander “Fabian Ramirez” reveal ties between the guerrillas and the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, reported newspaper El Tiempo on Tuesday. Photos that…
Former members of Colombia’s armed forces train members of Mexican drug cartel Familia Michoacana, Mexican newspaper La Razon reported on Monday. The newspaper based its allegations on reports by U.S.…
Colombia could receive $10 million, starting in January 2011, from a fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change, a Colombian negotiator at the Cancun Summit told El Espectador.…
Mexico’s arrest of Carlos Mauricio Poveda, alias “El Conejo,” marks the 18th major Colombian narco-trafficker captured or killed abroad in the last six years, according to Caracol Radio. Poveda spent time…
Ecopetrol SA, Colombia’s largest oil company, said it plans to invest $10.6 billion in 2011 as it seeks to almost double production over the next decade. The Bogota-based company may…
Colombian Minister of Defense Rodrigo Rivera said the country not respond to recent accusations from Nicaragua that Colombia is conspiringwith other nations to “seize” the Caribbean, reports La F.m. Rodrigo said…
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega accuses Colombia of heading a “conspiracy” of countries within the Organization of American States (OAS), newspaper El Colombiano reported Sunday. Following the OAS’s ruling on Friday that…
Ecopetrol announced Tuesday it has discovered oil in Colombia’s central department of Meta. The state-owned oil firm’s press release states that the well is just over a kilometer in depth and…