President Hugo Chavez’s government is sending 15,000 soldiers to the border with Colombia, saying the military buildup is needed to increase security, combat drug trafficking and root out paramilitary groups.…
The insecurity on the Venezuela-Colombia border is part of a plan hatched by Bogota and Washington to destabilize Venezuela, the socialist country’s Foreign Minister said Thursday. “This plan includes trying…
Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday urged Venezuela not to create divisions like the “Berlin Wall” between the feuding neighbors as he sought to cool a crisis fueled by border…
The Venezuelan Civil Guard is not allowing Colombians to cross the border at Cucutá. The Guard is only people allowing people with Venezuelan identification to cross between the two countries.…
A mob of angry Medellin residents attacked Colombian Bolivarian Socialist Movement (MSB) leader David Corredor Cuellar while he was campaigning for the Presidency in the Antioquian capital Tuesday. Corredor was collecting…
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Tuesday threatened to completely close the border with Colombia following the murder of two members of the Civil Guard by an alleged Venezuelan ally of Colombian…
A Venezuelan national, allegedly tied to Colombian paramilitaries, was arrested Tuesday for the assassination of two officers of the Venezuelan Civil Guard. The border between the two countries remains closed,…
Colombian Congress on Tuesday received a copy of the controversial military pact with the U.S., signed by both nations last Friday. Congress is not permitted to amend the pact but…
Venezuela closed the border with Colombia following the assassination of two officers of the country’s Civil Guard close to the border and rising tensions about the alleged incursion of Colombian…