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Uribe is set to jet off this week to Caracas where he will meet the Venezuelan leader. Not unlike Romulus and Remus, the two “brothers” will face each other with…

The state of the justice in Colombia may be reflected in a black joke circulating at the time of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic’s trial: “What do you do…

  Bolivia’s daily La Razón had an interesting feature on cocaine production in the country, last weekend. La Razón interviews ‘Julio’, a Bolivian drugs trafficker in jail, who has connections…

Barack Obama will make his first trip south of the U.S. border as president when he visits Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas in mid-April. The Summit…

It is widely conceived that Uribe has split Colombia’s history in two. His supporters, on the one hand, mention the weakening of the FARC, the demobilization of the right-wing paramilitaries…

  Claudia López’s column in El Tiempo had an interesting analysis Tuesday. She states that Colombia is no longer a priority for the United States in Latin America, because the…

In the last several days, the relationship between the Colombian government and the FARC has gone through a dramatic set of changes in tone. Consistency must be regarded as a…

“Oh, y ahora ¿quién podrá defenderme/nos?” (“Oh, who can save me/us now?”) This sentence was popularized by the television quasi-superhero ‘El Chapulín Colorado’ created by the Mexican comedian Roberto Gomez…

The former paramilitary warlords in Colombia who have been extradited to the United States are going to testify very soon and are going to give 60 testimonies. Colombia’s Justice and…