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Finally U.S. politicians have understood that the War on Drugs and by extension Plan Colombia has failed. As it was to be expected the Colombian government swiftly refuted this view. Paradoxically both views are right to some extent depending of the...
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Venezuela and Colombia differences won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbors will end up finding a way out through dialogue, says Nelson Jobim, the...
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Seven FARC rebels and four government soldiers were killed in separate engagements in southwestern and eastern Colombia, the military said.
All of the guerrilla losses...
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Brazil and the U.S. urged Colombia and Venezuela on Tuesday to talk out their differences after Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez ordered his military to prepare for a...
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be...
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Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public.
Under the 10-year deal, the US military...
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Fredys Villanueva has abandoned his native Colombia for neighboring Venezuela. But he’s not quite like the hundreds of thousands of Colombians who have fled their...
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Two international bridges between Venezuela and Colombia remained closed, as Venezuelan authorities searched for three people and arrested a fourth suspected in the...
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From Nariño to Bogota to Magdalena, armed death squads are once again imposing a brutal brand of justice with worrying tolerance from the authorities. Alvaro Uribe...
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In a private ceremony, the American ambassador, William Brownfield, and three Colombian ministers signed an agreement on Friday to expand Washington’s military...
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Colombia’s National Planning Council claimed Tuesday that the fight against drugs is lost and the current government’s ‘Democratic Security’...
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Colombia is doing better than Venezuela, but still has a long way to go before the country can proudly say it is guaranteeing a freedom of press, prominent journalist...
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The bullet-ridden bodies of 10 members of a Colombian football team, who were kidnapped two weeks ago, have been found on the Venezuelan border.
One member of the team...
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Colombian federal authorities announced Monday it will station 1,900 troops in the area south of Bogota after two local politicians were found murdered in a village 30...
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The Colombian government has, for the most part, ignored the frustrations of the country’s growing victims’ organizations. Now, these groups are speaking directly...
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Beauty queens, fashion models, actresses or regular girls made good are lovers of drug capos and above all lovers of the finest luxuries cocaine money can buy.
Few are...
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This city’s drug underworld is littered with “poseurs” — lowlife triggermen pretending they’re the real hard cases.
But a longstanding...
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A 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver lie on his work bench. An old battery-powered radio blares out the salsa music classic, “Todo Tiene Su Final” or...
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Peace in Colombia is impossible at the moment because of the current country’s government policy, opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba said Sunday.
According to the...
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Two of Latin America’s best known airlines are set to merge in a deal aimed at cost-cutting.
Avianca of Colombia and El Salvador’s Taca will join forces,...
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