Wikileaks releases 7000 new cables on Colombia
Wikileaks released 500,000 US diplomatic cables from during the administration of President Jimmy...
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Extradited FARC leader faced no criminal charges in US: Fellow rebels
Prominent FARC guerrilla “Simon Trinidad” was extradited to the U.S. on trumped up...
El Espectador Stratfor’s only media informant in Colombia: Wikileaks
Newspaper El Espectador was U.S. intelligence company Stratfor’s only media informant in Colombia, files released by Wikileaks showed. According to the leaked files, the newspaper signed an intelligence-sharing deal in...
US funded corrupt Afro-Colombian caucus: WikiLeaks
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) spent over half a million dollars funding an Afro-Colombian caucus dominated by politicians accused of ties to illegal armed groups or of corruption, according to diplomatic...
Uribe advisor slammed Santos over political credentials: WikiLeaks
The advisor to former President Alvaro Uribe, Jose Obdulio Gaviria, heavily criticized in 2009 current President Juan Manuel Santos and other potential candidates to the presidency during the debate over Uribe’s quest for...
Ex-President Pastrana feared ICC prosecution: WikiLeaks
Former President Andres Pastrana feared being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his actions while in power from 1998 to 2002 a WikiLeaks cable has shown. Pastrana, in a conversation with then-U.S....
Army commander tried frustrating investigation of civilian killings: WikiLeaks
The former commander of the Colombian army, Oscar Gonzalez Peña, made “obvious” efforts to “frustrate” internal investigations into the killing of hundreds of civilians by members of the army, a...
Corruption on border allowed FARC presence in Ecuador: WikiLeaks
Corruption, insufficient resources, and difficult terrain on Ecuador’s border with Colombia allowed FARC guerrillas to jump the boundary and use the country for refuge from Colombian security forces according to a...
Ecuador president’s campaign to be investigated for FARC funding
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ecuador will investigate the veracity of a recently publicized WikiLeaks cable that claims Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa received campaign funding from the FARC and Venezuela, El...
Colombia’s relations with Israeli defense firm a ‘disaster’: WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks cables dating between 2006 and 2009 detail the “souring” of Colombia’s relationship with Israel over the poor return on business deals with an Israeli defense firm. Current president and then-Defense...
Paramilitaries controlled 10% Colombia’s land: WikiLeaks
Paramilitaries and drug traffickers may have controlled 10% of Colombia’s land, according to a 2007 diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks Sunday, via El Espectador. The figure came from a series of studies which showed...
US wanted to rescue American hostages: WikiLeaks
The United States were willing to unilaterally rescue three military contractors who were held in Colombia by the FARC between 2003 and 2008, a WikiLeaks cable released by the magazine Semana has shown. According to the...
