BOGOTA - Declassified U.S. documents show that the CIA and former U.S. ambassadors were fully aware, as far back as 1990, that the military in Colombia – the third largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and Egypt – were committing extrajudicial killings...
HATO GRANDE, Colombia, Aug. 31 (IPS) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s efforts to broker a humanitarian agreement for the release of hostages held by Colombia’s guerrillas have already begun to bear fruit. The main announcement after...
BOGOTÁ - U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Colombia was accompanied by signals that Washington may step up its efforts to secure the release of three U.S. intelligence operatives who have been held hostage by the main guerrilla group, the FARC, since...
BOGOTÁ - Just a few days into Colombian President Álvaro Uribe's second term in office, the close U.S. supervision of his government's negotiations for the demobilization of the ultra-rightwing paramilitary militias became evident. Fourteen of the heads of the...
BOGOTA – Three decades after Washington declared Colombia the world's leading producer of cocaine, experts consider U.S.-financed efforts to eradicate illegal drug crops a failure. Although Washington has poured more than 40 billion dollars into anti-drug efforts...
BOGOTA - Many Colombians have expressed deep concern over U.S. President George W. Bush's reelection, while others share the enthusiasm of right-wing Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, Washington's closest ally in Latin America. "I want to congratulate President...
BOGOTA - The Intercongregational Justice and Peace Commission in Colombia was recently told "watch what you write," in a message threatening that "something terrible" could happen. The anonymous message threatened a "major attack" that...
BOGOTA - Local secretariats of finance, roads and health – "that's where the money is, that's where the show is run," a member of a paramilitary militia in Colombia can be heard saying in the taped telephone conversation. The wiretapped conversation...
BOGOTA - The Colombian government hopes to demobilize 14,000 right-wing paramilitary fighters by late 2005 – 95 percent of the combatants that the paramilitary leaders sitting down at the negotiating table in a remote village in northwestern Colombia claim to...
BOGOTA - Shrouded in silence in Colombia, the Plan Patriot has begun to emerge as the most ambitious military offensive to date against the leftist guerrillas, in which the U.S. military is providing tactical and logistical support. Taking part in the operation, which...
