Colombia’s oligarchy is to blame for Venezuela’s soaring violence, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday. According to the leftist president, the soaring crime rate is being influenced by Colombian…
The U.S. does not believe that tense relations between Venezuela and Colombia will lead to war, U.S. assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, said on Monday.…
Venezuela’s devaluation of its currency will further complicate its troubled commercial relationship with neighboring Colombia, where the economy is already suffering from a breakdown in cross-border trade. President Hugo Chavez…
Colombia’s stock market had the largest growth of any in Latin America in the last decade. The stock exchange of the Andean nation enjoyed a 927.9% increase in the ten-year…
Venezuela’s National Assembly announced on Tuesday it will investigate an alleged U.S.-Colombian plot to attack the country. On Wednesday, the lawmakers will receive a document by the Assembly’s Foreign Relations…
A Colombian man built a chessboard using figures depicting the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela after ongoing tensions between the two countries sparked the idea. Faryd Jose Quintero and his…
President Alvaro Uribe said on Tuesday that as long as he is President, Colombia will not have a strategy of international aggression. Uribe disavowed any statements of aggression against the…
Colombian border authorities said Monday they arrested a Venezuelan soldier who had crossed the border illegally. According to immigration officials of intelligence agency DAS, the sergeant of the Venezuelan National…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is accusing Colombia and the United States of plotting to set up a fake rebel camp on Venezuelan soil to discredit his government. Chavez accused Colombia…