Future of Plan Colombia remains uncertain
The future of U.S. military aid to Colombia is in question, following the absence of any mention of Plan Colombia in President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposal to Congress on…
The future of U.S. military aid to Colombia is in question, following the absence of any mention of Plan Colombia in President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposal to Congress on…
Plan Colombia, the U.S. financial and military aid program to help Colombia fight drug trafficking and leftist guerrillas, was not mentioned in President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget proposal to Congress.…
A joint humanitarian mission by the Colombian and U.S. military in the south of Colombia has been able to provide treatment to over 3,300 people in its first week, a…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday poked fun at Colombia’s expulsion of a Venezuelan soldier accused of carrying out an operation in Colombian territory, saying “only people like Rambo or…
Last Wednesday, at around 9.30 in the morning, a military helicopter from Venezuela entered Colombian airspace. For about 20 minutes, the Venezuelans flew over the city of Arauca and a…
Colombia’s Congress has requested that the Ministry of Defense invest in more sophisticated weaponry, due to the country’s current turbulent relations with Venezuela. Vice President of Congress Santiago Castro suggested…
Colombia will increase the number of its troops in Afghanistan, sending soldiers trained in counter-insurgency, the South American country’s foreign minister announced Thursday. Without yet knowing how many more troops…
Colombia’s foreign minister on Friday said his country will denounce Venezuela before the Organization of American States and the United Nations for its alleged violation of Colombian airspace with a…
In an open letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, three Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday asked Washington to decrease military aid to Colombia. The senators requested that the U.S.…