Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos welcomed the U.S. State Department’s certification that Colombia meets “statutory criteria related to human rights,” calling the decision “just.” “This is good news and more…
The Colombian government meets “statutory criteria related to human rights,” the United States government determined. The official certification is necessary for Washington to send $30.3 million in military aid to…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday he would “redouble” the military’s offensive against leftist guerrillas after attack killed 40 police and military officers. Colombia’s rebel groups have launched a…
Authorities on Saturday found an air force plane that went missing Tuesday in central Colombia and confirmed that none of the six soldiers on board survived the crash. Air force…
Six Colombian army soldiers on Friday were sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2008 assassination of the husband of one of Colombia’s most prominent indigenous leaders. According to…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office issued arrest warrants for seven soldiers, including a lieutenant, suspected of killing a farmer in the country’s northern Sucre department and presenting him as a rebel killed…
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro labelled Colombia “a country converted into a base” and criticized U.S. military presence in Latin America. “They don’t have them in Venezuela. Colombia is a…
Private military firm Blackwater violated U.S. arms trafficking regulations when training the Colombian military in 2005, a leaked State Department report shows. The controversial firm, renamed Xe Services LLC in…
Colombia is seeking a renewal of the bilateral political agenda with the United States, Colombian newspaper El Espectador reported on Tuesday. According to the daily, the Colombian diplomatic corps in…