Colombia Bomb Attack Kills At Least 6
VILLA RICA, Colombia — Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least si...
VILLA RICA, Colombia — Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least si...
AP | By LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 12.27.2011 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian rebels on Tuesday announced plans to release six hostages who have been held captive for more than a decade. The Revolu...
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 01.29.2012 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main leftist rebel group is blaming President Juan Manuel Santos' government for the weekend deaths of four securi...
AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.28.2012 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — The Colombian police sergeant who saved himself when leftist rebels killed four fellow captives said Monday that he ran for h...
AP | By FRANK BAJAK | Posted 11.26.2011 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's main rebel group executed four of its longest-held captives during combat Saturday between guerrillas and soldiers sear...
AP | LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 01.15.2012 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main rebel group announced Tuesday that it has named a successor to its leader, who was killed in combat this mont...
AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.05.2012 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — Alfonso Cano was a bespectacled middle-class intellectual who rose from chief ideologist to maximum leader of the Revolutiona...
AP | LIBARDO CARDONA AND CESAR GARCIA | Posted 01.04.2012 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday called on fighters of Latin America's only major rebel force to accept the killing o...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.02.2012 | World
NEW YORK -- In March 2008, former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout stood in a Bangkok hotel lobby, waiting for an elevator with an avowed member o...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.12.2011 | Crime
NEW YORK -- Surface-to-air missiles. Armor-piercing rockets. Sniper rifles. Plastic explosives by the ton. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military of...
David D. Burstein | Posted 12.10.2011 | College
We're the first generation to spend all of our grown years in a world where connecting to people from all over the world, instantly and constantly, seems normal and natural.
AOLLatino.com | Posted 11.26.2011 | Latino Voices
'Infiltrados' (Infiltrated) is the first documentary produced by the new Documentales Univision (Univision Documentaries), a new unit of Univision New...
AP | By VIVIAN SEQUERA and LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 11.18.2011 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Presidents typically quit the limelight when their terms end, ease into contemplative repose, perhaps pen a memoir, and stay out o...
AP | Posted 11.06.2011 | World
PANAMA CITY -- Authorities in Panama say they have broken up a major cocaine trafficking organization that moved drugs from Colombia to Panama and the...
Sarah Stephens | Posted 10.24.2011 | World
It is both untrue and a travesty to paint Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as the United States government did in its annual report on the subject last week.
Dan Kovalik | Posted 09.04.2011 | World
While the mainstream press has been silent on the issue, there is a growing movement in Colombia for a peaceful settlement of the decades-long civil w...
Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 08.24.2011 | World
Recently, a global transition to a more diffuse distribution of economic power is broadly recognized, pointing to a shift in the balance of global growth from rich to low- and middle- income economies. Colombia may be a prime example of this trend.
Kelly Nicholls | Posted 08.22.2011 | World
Bowing to pressure, the Obama administration is pushing the FTA forward with little consideration of its potential impacts on marginalized and impoverished sectors of Colombian society.
Milburn Line | Posted 07.27.2011 | World
Armed forces are accused of murdering 2,547 civilians and presenting them as combat kills; there are now 27,000 forced disappearances in Colombia
Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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.
AP | RODRIGO ALMONACID | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — Not until Johan Steven Martinez began school at age 4 did he learn why he had never met his father. "I realized that all my ...
Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Historic FBI shenanigans committed against Native Americans are well known. But WikiLeaks documents now reveal that the they have their sights set on indigenous peoples farther afield as well.
The Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Early next year, anti-narcotics police will begin deploying squads of rats to sniff out land mines in remote areas of Colombia where leftist rebels an...
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — The powerful rebel comandante who Colombian officials say died in the bombing of a clandestine jungle camp was nicknamed "Mono Jo...
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's military killed the No. 2 leader and top military strategist of the country's main rebel army in blistering bombar...
AP | CARLOS JULIO MARTINEZ | Posted 02.02.2012 | World