How Colombia’s defense minister screwed up US counternarcotics support again
Colombia’s defense minister may have to tell the US government he screwed up the involvement of American soldiers in counternarcotics operations for the second time in three months. Approximately 50 US...
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DCI Group LLC: smearing alleged war criminal’s victim for money
Washington DC lobby firm DCI Group embarked on a disinformation campaign in defense of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, who is under house arrest on fraud and bribery charges. Following a...
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The resurrected Medellin Cartel has the US government by the balls
“We won!” camouflaged men shouted after killing Pablo Escobar in 1993. They didn’t. The Medellin Cartel resurrected and now has the US government by the balls. The so-called “Oficina de Envigado”...
View ArticleThe secrets of ‘Jorge 40’, the warlord who owned Colombia’s Caribbean region
Rodrigo Tovar, the former warlord who virtually owned Colombia’s Caribbean coast and its politicians, wants to talk after years of silence. The former commander of the AUC’s Northern Bloc is expected...
View ArticleCIA re-hired sacked agent after Colombia terrorism claims: report
US intelligence agency CIA allegedly rehired a previously sacked agent after he was accused of ordering crimes against humanity in Colombia, a prosecutor told newspaper El Espectador. According to the...
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How a US military doctrine became Colombia’s ‘origin of evil’ | Part 3: Slavery
The military doctrine a Medellin court dubbed the “origin of evil” in Colombia contains the concept of “the internal enemy,” which originally referred to American slaves. The National Security Doctrine...
View ArticleLeave Colombia out of America’s elections | Republican edition
Incumbent US President Donald Trump should leave Colombia out of his election campaign as not doing so can only have negative consequences. Whenever there’s an election in the United States I stay out...
View ArticleLeave Colombia out of America’s elections | Democrat edition
Former US Senator Joe Biden should leave Colombia out of the US elections for the same reasons as incumbent President Donald Trump; the consequences of not doing so can only be negative. I hadn’t even...
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US officials in Colombia suspected of seeking narco bribes
US officials allegedly intimidated one of Colombia’s top counternarcotics prosecutors who was investigating their alleged bribery of mafia associates, newspaper El Espectador reported on Saturday. The...
View Article‘Tensions between US and Colombia over counternarcotics disaster’
The governments of the Colombia and the US are in damage control mode after media revealed how their failing counternarcotics policy is hurting their political alliance. The US embassy and Colombia’s...
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Did Trump’s Colombia drug policy fail because of mafia collusion?
The governments of Colombia and the US in 2018 agreed to cut cocaine production in half by 2023. Here’s how that became a catastrophic failure. Fifteen months before US assistant Secretary of State...
View ArticleColombia’s TV news argues Biden should let Trump win US elections
Presidential candidate Joe Biden should let incumbent President Donald Trump win the elections as an act of “chivalry,” according to Colombia’s most controversial television network. Journalist Luis...
View ArticleBiden must reboot US policy for Colombia
One of US President-elect Joe Biden’s virtues is a willingness to acknowledge mistakes, which may come in handy as he’s made some catastrophic ones in regard to Colombia. Now, as Biden begins to craft...
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How Biden’s election may affect Colombia
US President-elect Joe Biden is likely to put more pressure on Colombia’s far-right President Ivan Duque to implement peace policies and combat drug trafficking. US foreign policy on Colombia is...
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DEA all but destroyed Colombia’s peace process for no apparent reason
Evidence obtained by newspaper El Espectador confirmed that the DEA all but destroyed Colombia’s peace process in a plot that would make a B-movie look classy. Colombia’s war crimes tribunal ordered an...
View ArticleWill Colombia finally appoint a diplomat to Washington DC?
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque may have to appoint an actual diplomat as ambassador to Washington DC as Francisco Santos could also flunk the transition to a new US administration. Santos, a...
View ArticleFury and confusion over DEA plot that all but sunk Colombia’s peace process
A DEA plot that all but destroyed Colombia’s peace process is causing fury and confusion in the South American country. The publication of evidence that the US counternarcotics agency was trying to...
View ArticleColombia’s former chief prosecutor facing charges over plot to frame FARC leader
Colombia’s former chief prosecutor is facing criminal charges for allegedly conspiring with the US Government in order to file bogus drug trafficking charges against a demobilized guerrilla leader. The...
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The Plan Colombia disaster | Part 1: USAID for narcos
President Ivan Duque wants the US to maintain support for “what used to be Plan Colombia,” the counternarcotics strategy that subsidized at least three drug traffickers. In an attempt to attract...
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Colombia’s former chief prosecutor facing ‘high treason’ charge
Colombia’s former chief prosecutor can expect high treason charges for seeking to end the peace process in collusion with the DEA, according to the opposition. In a bombshell debate, opposition...
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