By Admin Friday, September 3, 2010
BOGOTA, (Xinhua)—Colombian authorities have seized 28 million U.S. dollars in Bogota and they are investigating if there is any relation between the money and Mexican and Colombian drug-traffickers, the district attorney’s office of Colombia announced Thursday.
General District Attorney Guillermo Mendoza said 12 million dollars were seized on Monday in a car and 16 million dollars were found Wednesday in another vehicle in Bogota.
Colombian Vice President Announces Government’s Intent to Work with IOM on the Restitution of LandsBy Admin Friday, September 3, 2010
Source: International Organization for Migration (IOM)
During the Second International Forum on Migration and Peace, held this week in Bogota with support from IOM, Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzón expressed his government’s commitment to the internally displaced population and reiterated their intention to work on the restitution of lands, in partnership with IOM Colombia.
By Admin Friday, September 3, 2010
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Suspected leftist rebels killed 14 police officers and wounded seven in an ambush of a five-truck convoy in southern Colombia, a police commander said Thursday.
Rousseff promises, if elected, full support for Colombian president SantosBy Admin Thursday, September 2, 2010
Brazilian incumbent presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff held on Wednesday a private meeting with visiting Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and promised if elected that Brazil would continue with its willingness to mediate with the Colombian FARC guerrillas, as long as Bogotá formally makes a request.
“If Colombia at some point requests the presence of Brazil, we would participate, but in the case it does not, we don’t have why to participate, because the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, are not a Brazilian problem”, said Rousseff on leaving the Colombian embassy in Brasilia.
Colombia’s Santos meets Lula da Silva in his first overseas visitBy Admin Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos arrived Tuesday in Brazil for an official two-day state visit that begins Wednesday with a meeting with President Lula da Silva to address a regional political agenda and strengthen bilateral trade.
Santos will be the first leader to be received at the refurbished Planalto Palace, seat of the Executive that underwent 18 months of maintenance and upgrading. He arrived in Brasilia with Foreign Affairs minister Maria Angela Holguin and Sergio Díaz-Granados head of Trade, Industry and Tourism.
Las FARC y los cárteles mexicanos cultivan al menos 10 años de relaciónBy Admin Wednesday, September 1, 2010
BOGOTÁ (CNNMéxico) — Con la detención de 11 personas presuntamente ligadas al cártel de los hermanos Beltrán Leyva en Colombia, se exhibe nuevamente la relación que por años han cultivado los grupos guerrilleros en este país sudamericano con los grupos criminales mexicanos.
What can Mexico learn from Colombia’s drug war?By Admin Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By Liz Goodwin
In the space of a week, the powerful drug cartel Los Zetas has been suspected of launching a full-on attack on social institutions in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, hitting the media, police, an elected official and the court system in what appears to be an effort to prevent the investigation of a massacre of migrants.
By Admin Tuesday, August 31, 2010
By Bertil Lintner
BANGKOK - While Bangkok-based observers weigh the legal merits of extraditing alleged Russian gunrunner Viktor Bout to the United States, a far more important issue seems to have eluded the media: why is Washington so eager to get its hands on Bout and why is Moscow doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening?
By Admin Monday, August 30, 2010
* President Santos had been wanted for 2008 bombing
* Case against Santos continues, but without arrest order
LAGO AGRIO - (Reuters) - An Ecuadorean arrest order against Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was revoked by a provincial judge on Monday, but the case stemming from a 2008 bombing of Ecuadorean territory remains open.
By Admin Monday, August 30, 2010
Posted by Erin Rosa
Blackwater, a corporation that specializes in providing military-style training and support to other businesses and governments, recently entered into a $42 million civil settlement with the State Department this month after the agency found that the company violated international arms trafficking and export regulations no less than 288 times.
