Santos seeks better ties with Chavez
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…
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.…
Colombia’s Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said Tuesday that allegations by former police Major Juan Carlos Meneses that Uribe’s brother, Santiago Uribe, led a paramilitary death squad in the early 1990s,…
Colombian police arrested a Venezuelan sodlier who was found in uniform, armed and drunk on the Colombian side of the border. According to a press release on the website of…
President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that the almost $700,000 (2,968,650 bolivares fuertes) in counterfeit Venezuelan currency seized in a DAS raid in Bogota, is evidence of “a great economic war against Venezuela.”…