Colombia’s military expenditure increased 11% in 2009, while Venezuela’s spending fell 25%, according to figures released by a Swedish think tank. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s annual report put Brazil…
Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa said Tuesday that, like Colombian presidential candidate Juan Manuel Santos, he hopes for good relations between the neighbor nations, but added that actions speak louder than…
Venezuela’s Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami said Monday that he hopes that his nation and Colombia’s next government will “respect each other like brothers” and that the new president will abandon…
Juan Manuel Santos, who emerged from weekend voting as the front-runner in next month’s presidential runoff election, said Monday he hopes to restore good relations with Venezuela and Ecuador if…
Despite having replaced nearly all of the country’s lost trade with Venezuela, Colombia continues to push hard to diversify and increase trade with new countries across the world. Nubia Stella…
“Uribista” Juan Manuel Santos won the majority of votes of Colombians living abroad, in the first round of the Andean nation’s presidential elections held Sunday. Of the 410,485 Colombian nationals eligible to…
Venezuelan authorities have apparently detained seven undocumented Colombians who were in the neighboring country for work purposes, reports La Opinion on Thursday. Family members of the seven Colombians report that…
The U.S. Ambassador to Colombia, William Brownfield, criticized the intervention by foreign governments in Colombia’s upcoming presidential elections, reports El Tiempo on Wednesday. Brownfield, when asked about foreign interference in…
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday that allegations his brother has paramilitary ties are made by those who seek to “discredit the democratic security” in Colombia. “They want to kill democratic security.…