A top U.S. State Department anti-narcotics official has said that the FARC rank alongside the Taliban as the world’s largest drug trafficking organizations, U.S. news agency AP reported Thursday. Assistant Secretary of...
< The U.S. believed that former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s administration was overreacting to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ “war rhetoric,” a WikiLeaks cable revealed Wednesday. In a...
Several officials from Colombia’s Ministry of Defense privately suspected corruption in the process that saw former Navy Admiral Gabriel Arango Bacci acquitted in 2009 of all charges relating to ties with drug traffickers,...
The Colombian Supreme Court wanted former President Alvaro Uribe’s attempt to get re-elected in 2010 to fail because of an ongoing feud with the executive branch, according to a WikiLeaks cable released by newspaper El...
A WikiLeaks cable says that Jose Obdulio Gaviria, then-adviser to ex-President Alvaro Uribe, secretly met with DAS officials in 2009 during a peak period in the wiretaps scandal, contradicting his public denial at the time....
Despite the supposed commitment of former President Alvaro Uribe’s administration to creating a climate for foreign investment, U.S. officials were still concerned about corruption and apparent favoritism shown to...
WikiLeaks cables reveal that the U.S. pressured the government of then-President Alvaro Uribe to clean up the scandal-hit intelligence agency DAS in 2009, El Pais reported Tuesday. The cables show that then-U.S. Ambassador...
