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How Colombia’s top corporate lawyer became a ‘threat to national security’
Colombia’s former chief prosecutor has gone from being one of the most powerful and influential corporate lawyers to facing trial for treason in just four years. Nestor Humberto Martinez was...
View ArticleUS drug policy report too superficial to offend even Colombia’s narcos
The report of a commission advising US Congress on counternarcotics efforts in the Americas was so superficial not even Colombia’s largest drug trafficking organization could have taken offense. In...
View ArticleColombia’s counternarcotics efforts ‘not a failure’: defense minister
Colombia’s defense minister contradicted findings of a US drug policy commission that deemed the abandoned joint strategy “Plan Colombia” a “counternarcotics failure.” In an interview with El Tiempo,...
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DEA bungled conspiracy against Colombia’s war crimes tribunal: report
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reportedly bungled a conspiracy against Colombia’s war crimes tribunal in an attempt to cover up a botched conspiracy against demobilized guerrillas. A DEA...
View ArticleUS embassy took part in DEA plot to discredit Colombia’s war crimes tribunal
A US Embassy official was actively involved in a DEA conspiracy to discredit Colombia’s war crimes tribunal last year, evidence released by Noticias Uno showed. In a letter, Special agent Craig M....
View ArticleUS counternarcotics in Colombia: a prehistory
The aerial spraying of marijuana in Mexico made Colombia the main supplier to the United States, whose potheads were corrupting the South American country, US lawmakers were told in 1979. The use of...
View ArticleColombia condemns pro-Trump assault on US Congress
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque condemned the violent assault on the United States Congress by supporters of his American counterpart Donald Trump on Wednesday. In a tweet, Duque said “we reject the...
View ArticleDear Americans, don’t go down Colombia’s road
American citizens and politicians need to know their political divisions are eerily similar to the ones that led to the war Colombia is struggling to get out of. I’m not going to pretend to know...
View ArticleColombia trying to mend strain relations with US after election meddling claims
Colombia’s ambassador to Washington DC used last week’s assault on Capitol Hill to suck up to US President-elect Joe Biden after learning his alleged election meddling would have consequences. In a...
View ArticleJoe Biden and Colombia | Part 1: Duque ‘optimistic’ about relations
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque is “optimistic” about working with US-President-elect Joe Biden despite strain relations over alleged election meddling by his government. Duque has every reason to be...
View ArticleJoe Biden and Colombia | Part 2: ending the ‘War on Drugs’
President-elect Joe Biden wants to end the United States’ so-called “War on Drugs,” which may force Colombia’s President Ivan Duque to drastically revise domestic drug policies. Duque gladly returned...
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The War on Drugs’ 50th anniversary | Part 1: applying cocaine to a CIA penis
US intelligence agency CIA claimed cocaine was being applied to the male sex organ after late US President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in 1971. Urologists were unable to confirm the...
View ArticleDuque praises Biden as future of US-Colombia relations remains uncertain
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque congratulated his American counterpart Joe Biden on assuming the presidency after alleged election meddling all but froze bilateral relations. In a video message, Duque...
View ArticleFrom left to right, Colombia’s political leaders warmly welcome Biden
Colombia’s political leaders from the left to the right welcomed the arrival of US President Joe Biden to the White House on Wednesday. Far-right former President Alvaro Uribe said he wished “all the...
View ArticlePolitical vultures lurking after Colombia’s defense minister dies
International responses to the death of Colombia’s defense minister on Tuesday were warm, but political vultures are lurking from the sky and lobbyists are seeking inroads. Radical critics of Defense...
View ArticleDuque isolated as US vows ‘strong support for peace in Colombia’
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed his “strong support for peace in Colombia” in his first phone call to his Colombian counterpart Claudia Blum on Thursday. A press release by Blinken’s...
View ArticleColombia’s ex-president asks Biden to remove Cuba from terror list
Colombia’s former President Juan Manuel Santos asked US President Joe Biden to reverse a decision to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism. Santos made the requested on behalf of The Elders, a...
View ArticleColombia’s peace process ‘essential’ to fight drug trafficking: US
Colombia’s peace process is “essential” for the US government’s counternarcotics efforts in the country, embassy officials told newspaper El Tiempo. Two US Embassy officials said that the...
View ArticleUS lawmakers want to suspend aid to Colombia’s police
Members of US Congress called on the government of President Joe Biden to suspend all aid to Colombia’s police, which is being accused of gross human rights violations to quell anti-government...
View ArticleHow Colombia turned US support for protests into support for violent repression
The PR people of US President Joe Biden and his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque failed to present coherent accounts of the two leaders’ first call on Monday. The press secretaries of both presidents...
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