Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he will allow an opposition senator to accompany the release of hostages held by FARC rebels.
During the Colombia Free Trade Agreement discussions in the White House and Congress, a major point has been missed. Colombia is the No. 1 source of drugs that lead to murders, crowding in prisons and family disunion. Congressional ratification of the Colombia Free Trade agreement will help Colombia create jobs outside of the drug trade and reduce the export of these lethal products.
A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.
An Ecuadorean judge has issued an arrest order for a former Colombian defense minister in connection with a cross-border raid on a guerrilla camp in Ecuador's jungle.
President Barack Obama said Monday he is confident the U.S. and Colombia can ultimately reach a deal on a stalled trade agreement, despite continuing concern about the killings of labor leaders in Colombia.
A survivor's account sheds light on the 'false positive' executions that have brought grief to thousands of Colombian families and inflamed world opinion.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the oldest and strongest terrorist group in North or South America, turns 45 this week -- that's 45 years of kidnappings, murders, bombings and drug trafficking.
Hit by increased desertions and military attacks, Colombia's leftist insurgency is working to reinvent itself.
An alleged rebel turned over to Colombia by Mexico held a key role promoting his guerrilla group internationally, authorities said Saturday.
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe says it would be ''inappropriate'' for him to seek a third consecutive term. His statement comes two days after the senate approved a referendum that would ask voters to permit him to run again. Uribe did not, however, clearly rule out a reelection bid.
Colombia's conservative President Alvaro Uribe never had much in common with leftist President Hugo Chávez of neighboring Venezuela -- until now.
Authorities in neighboring Colombia contend that the Ecuadorean border town of Puerto Nuevo is the thriving nerve center for an elite Colombian rebel unit that helps keep a 44-year-old insurgency alive by trafficking cocaine through Ecuador's ports.
For weeks after the news broke, Colombians knew only that the secret police had spied on Supreme Court judges, opposition politicians, activists and journalists. Suspicions swirled that the orders for the wiretapping, as well as general surveillance, had come from the presidential palace.
Dole Food Co. made regular payments for at least a decade in a banana-growing region to illegal far-right Colombian militias that killed thousands, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Two men and a woman have been brought to the United States from Panama to face charges that they aided a terrorist organization. Prosecutors say the three were charged with conspiring to provide material support to Colombia's leftist FARC guerrillas. The U.S. has designated the FARC as a terrorist organization.
What happened in northwestern Colombia more than a decade ago might easily have been forgotten. Illegal militias forced poor black farmers off their land, which politically connected businessmen then seized
Whether they criticize President Uribe or his opponents, bloggers from Bogotá and other cities employ irreverent humor—borrowing from the British and Argentine traditions—to illustrate Colombia's political tensions. “Behind the liberty that their pseudonyms give them, (the bloggers) loosen the reins of their political passions," the weekly magazine Semana says.
Programs that help former FARC rebels and paramilitary troops reenter society is seen as crucial to the nation's long-term peace. The U.S. is on board, checkbook in hand.
The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instability in the African nation.
El ex director de Inteligencia del Ejército ecuatoriano Mario Pazmiño confirmó hoy a Efe que informes y fotografías que señalaban la presencia de la estudiante mexicana Lucía Morett en varios campamentos de las FARC el año pasado están documentados en la Dirección de Inteligencia Militar.
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