Bomb Found In Theater Hours Before Former President's Speech
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Police on Tuesday defused a pair of powerful firecrackers hidden in a Buenos Aires theater and apparently timed to exp...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Police on Tuesday defused a pair of powerful firecrackers hidden in a Buenos Aires theater and apparently timed to exp...
Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.27.2012
The UNHCR has released a report in which it concludes that, between 2008 and 2011, around 250,000 teachers and students have been displaced by neo-paramilitary death squads.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 04.17.2012
I just had the pleasure of reading an important new book entitled, Cocaine, Death Squads and the War on Terror (U.S. Imperialism and Class Struggle in Colombia).
AP | By VIVIAN SEQUERA and LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 11.18.2011
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Presidents typically quit the limelight when their terms end, ease into contemplative repose, perhaps pen a memoir, and stay out o...
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011
Renewal of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act is critical if the Obama administration is to maintain its strategic alliance with the world's largest grower of coca leaves.
Eric Farnsworth | Posted 05.25.2011
Growth has returned to the region and Latin America has emerged from the global crisis. Together, Latin America and Asia are two regions pulling the world out of economic crisis.
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no democracy, unless there is dissent and that dissent can be overtly expressed. It obfuscates one's mind to see how heads of states, democra...
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011
When I saw the images of the recent attack near my Bogota apartment, I could not help but think about the car bombings that had occurred when I was in Sicily, 18 years ago.
Lisa Haugaard | Posted 05.25.2011
If the Obama Administration wants to be a true friend to Colombia, U.S. support-both aid and trade-must be conditioned upon real and lasting human rights improvements.
Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011
Ban Ki-moon denied the Israeli military was off limits in a U.N. inquiry into the deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla heading for Gaza. Israel disputes this and no one is sure what the panel's job description is.
Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011
The UN's flotilla investigation may well be "unprecedented." But don't get too excited yet. This particular "international" and "UN-backed" team actually reflects Israel's own US-backed influence at the UN.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011
The rupture of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and Colombia after a special session of the Organization of American States (OAS) on July 22 mar...
John H. Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011
Chávez's socialist government is in no danger of losing the majority, but opposition parties are making inroads. In desperate need of diversion, Chávez has created a state of high alert.
Gabriel Elizondo | Posted 05.25.2011
Morris' work has led him to uncover evidence of atrocities potentially committed by actors of the state. His reporting has often thrown doubt on official government positions few other journalists seem dare to challenge.
Max Schoening | Posted 05.25.2011
A Colombian journalist who was recently denied a visa to study under Harvard University's Nieman Fellowship program says the State Department's decision may put his life under further threat.
Luis Guillermo Plata Paez | Posted 05.25.2011
As experts predict emerging markets will grow up to three times faster than developed countries this year and will drive global economic recovery, Colombia is well positioned for growth.
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the past ten days, I was amazed to see window with signboards for Antanas Mockus, the presidential candidate of the Green Party. It's the Colombian version of the Obama syndrome.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011
In his book, Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy, Father Javier Giraldo, a Jesuit priest and long-time human rights activist in Colombia, estimated that...
James Bacchus | Posted 05.25.2011
The United States risks becoming an afterthought in much that is unfolding commercially in Latin America.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 05.25.2011
The largest mass grave unearthed in Colombia was discovered by accident last year. The grave was discovered when children drank from a nearby stream and started to become seriously ill.
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011
There is an anecdote circulating in Washington. It is about a meeting between the Colombian foreign minister Bermudez and the president of the Senate ...
AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011
FLORENCIA, Colombia — A Colombian soldier held hostage for more than 12 years was freed by rebels Tuesday and reunited with his family, ending a...
Michael Fairbanks | Posted 05.25.2011
How many countries in the world could elect as its next president someone who dropped his pants and mooned a disrespectful audience of students?
Jaclyn Simon | Posted 05.25.2011
Presidential candidate Antanas Mockus is a potential ray of light in Colombia's political miasma of corruption.
Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011
The results of Colombia's elections raise serious doubts about the quality of that country's democracy, especially in the light of past and present violence.
AP | MICHAEL WARREN | Posted 05.22.2012