Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos received his Venezuelan counterpart today in the northern port city of Cartagena while opposition mounted a symbolic protest against the high-level visit.
Colombian authorities announced on Thursday that Venezuela captured former AUC paramilitary commander Omar Montero Martinez, alias “Codazzi,” who is accused of stealing up to 25,000 acres from farmers in northern Colombia.
A local Ombudsman’s office filed a complaint with Colombia’s foreign ministry after an alleged incursion of Venezuelan troops into Colombia, where they demolished three bridges, according to local media.
The Pacific Alliance trade bloc (uniting Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Peru) announced plans to strengthen ties with Latin America’s other major trading group, Mercosur, reported Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper on Tuesday.
Anti-smuggling operations on both sides of the Colombia-Venezuela border made progress this week in the fight against the trafficking of contraband from Venezuela, national media reported on Thursday.
The former state representative who “disappeared” in northern Colombia Thursday was found in a hotel in Venezuela Sunday, according to reports by national media.
Porters transporting products from Venezuela to Colombia blocked the passage of the Simon Bolivar international bridge with their motorcycles on Tuesday, protesting against the alleged excessive control exercised by the…
Colombia asked Venezuela on Sunday to investigate allegations that Venezuelan soldiers illegally entered Colombian territory to rob a local farmer.
The US State Department has declared that allegations linking the US ambassador to Colombia in a plot to overthrow and assassinate the Venezuelan president are “completely unfounded,” Colombia’s Semana newsmagazine…