US promises Colombia ‘critical resources’ to confront coronavirus pandemic
US President Donald Trump agreed to send medical aid to Colombia to help confront the coronavirus crisis, the White House and President Ivan Duque said Thursday. In his daily Facebook Live...
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Paranoid Colombia: even Duque’s former chief of staff target of military spying
Colombia’s military used US resources to spy on American journalists, local NGO’s and politicians, and even President Ivan Duque’s former chief of staff, according to weekly Semana. Weekly Semana on...
View Article‘Duque ordered to facilitate botched mercenary invasion in Venezuela’: Maduro
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque ordered to support American and Venezuelan “mercenaries” to overthrow Venezuela’s government, its president Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday. The two former members of the...
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Colombia’s military attache to Washington removed over spying scandal
One of Colombia’s military attaches to Washington DC is among the 12 army officials who have been sacked over a major spying scandal, newspaper El Tiempo reported Saturday. According to the newspaper,...
View ArticleUS further complicates prospects for peace in Colombia
The United States government further complicated the future of peace in Colombia on Wednesday, adding Cuba to its list of non-cooperative countries in counter-terrorism efforts for not extraditing ELN...
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North Colombia paramilitaries had access to classified US counternarcotics...
A paramilitary group from northern Colombia had access to classified information from Colombian and international counternarcotics agencies allowing it to avoid drug seizures, according to Noticias...
View ArticleUS Congress to be asked to investigate Colombia’s military mafia
Colombia’s opposition said Wednesday that it will formally ask the United States’ Congress to look into piling reports of an organized crime dissidence within Colombia’s armed forces. Opposition...
View ArticleUS special forces to help combat drug trafficking in Colombia’s war-torn areas
The United States embassy said Wednesday that American special forces will assist Colombia’s security forces in counter-narcotics operations in war-torn areas prioritized in the peace process. The...
View ArticleUS military support for Colombia’s mafia is a counternarcotics strategy how?
The US military providing counternarcotics support to Colombia’s government despite its evident ties to drug traffickers is beyond absurd, yet no surprise. Until now, I thought the granting of a Medal...
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Help me please. My ex won’t let me see my child after years of abuse
My name is Diana Arciniegas. I have quietly suffered abuse at the hands of my husband for years. I can no longer be quiet, because he is refusing to let me see my child and I need help. I met my...
View Article7.5 metric tons of cocaine seized in US-Colombia operation
Colombia’s defense minister said Wednesday that the Navy seized 7.5 metric tons of cocaine in a joint operation with American naval forces. The illicit drugs were found in international waters on a...
View ArticleJudge gives Duque 48 hours to suspend US military operations in Colombia
A judge gave Colombia’s President Ivan Duque 48 hours to suspend the participation of American troops in counternarcotics operations. The US sent 53 soldiers of a so-called Security Force Assistance...
View ArticleUS House threatens to cut aid for Colombia over failing peace policies, human...
The United States House of Representative threatened to cut US support for Colombia over human rights violations and President Ivan Duque’s failure to implement peace policies. The House also demanded...
View ArticleHow a US military doctrine became Colombia’s ‘origin of evil’ | Part 2:...
“The origin of evil” in Colombia was the “National Security Doctrine” the US military kicked off in the early 1960’s and degenerated over decades, according to a Medellin Court. This National Security...
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Colombia bungles extradition of inconveniently cooperative paramilitary...
US authorities plan to send former paramilitary chief Salvatore Mancuso to Italy after Colombia’s government apparently dropped an extradition request, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The...
View ArticleColombia Reports rejects US federal government until democracy is restored
The rejection of the administration of US President Donald Trump of the rule of law in Colombia to defend an alleged narco-terrorist impedes any cooperation until democracy is restored. Until then,...
View ArticleColombia and US talk big but offer no specifics in announcing rural...
This week’s ballyhooed joint announcement by Colombia and the US of a big investment package to support rural development was so empty of detail it amounted to nothing more than a PR offensive to prop...
View ArticleColombia admits $22 billion US counternarcotics strategy failed
The governments of Colombia and the United States want to resume aerial fumigation and continue the forced eradication of coca that cost $20 billion between 2005 and 2014 without any significant...
View ArticleColombia admits lying about requesting paramilitary leader’s extradition
The extradition of former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso to Colombia is increasingly unlikely after the foreign ministry admitted the government lied about filing an extradition request. Over...
View ArticleUribe spending $40K / month to lobby his way out of court?
The son of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe has hired a Washington DC lobbying firm for $40,000 a month while his father is sinking deeper into legal trouble, the Associated Press reported...
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