Uribe is a toy of US politics: Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Wednesday vehemently denied having sold weapons to Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC,adding Uribe is nothing more than a toy of U.S. politics. According to the Venezuelan…
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Colombia to explain military pact with US worldwide
Colombian embassies around the world were instructed on how to explain the controversial U.S.-Colombian pact that allows the U.S. to conduct international counternarcotics operations from Colombian soil. Confronted with broad…
Colombia town celebrates Obama’s birthday with star-spangled donkey
Turbaco, a small town near Colombia’s Caribbean coast, celebrated the birthday of U.S. President and local hero Barack Obama Tuesday in true Turbaco style. The town’s former mayor, Silvio Carrasquilla,…
ELN wants to join forces with FARC to avoid ‘imperialist invasion’
Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group ELN asked the country’s largest rebel group FARC to join forces to avoid a U.S. “invasion” into Venezuela. The rebels published an open letter to…
US will have access to seven military bases in Colombia
Colombia will allow the United States access to seven military bases as part of a deal that allows the U.S. to conduct international counternarcotics operations from Colombian soil, Armed Forces…
Uribe to travel to Brazil to defend US military plans
Colombian president Alvaro Uribe will travel to Brazil Thursday to meet with Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to explain the planned agreement with the U.S. about the use…