Minister German Vargas Lleras said that Sunday’s WikiLeaks revelations relating to Colombian politics do not worry the government. Justice and Interior Minister German Vargas Lleras told El Tiempo on Sunday…
The director of Colombian newspaper El Espectador, Fidel Cano, spoke with La F.M. on Monday about receiving 16,000 cables from WikiLeaks. Cano confirmed El Espectador’s report on Sunday that he…
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks gave Colombian newspaper El Espectador 16,000 leaked diplomatic cables, which the newspaper will publish over the coming few months. According to the newspaper, it had received cables…
The administration of former President Alvaro Uribe feared that the revelation of ties between politicians and demobilized paramilitary organization AUC would damage the country’s institutions and politics, former President Alvaro…
Former President Alvaro Uribe in 2004 predicted the rise of neo-paramilitary groups from the ashes of the demobilized AUC. He also said guerrilla groups FARC and ELN wouldn’t last to…
Colombia is wary of China’s growing investor interest, despite the need for new economic partners due to the lack of progress on a U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), a U.S.…
Colombia asked the United States to install aerial defense systems to protect the country from “external threats, particularly Venezuela.” In a cable sent by then-Ambassador to Bogota William Brownfield on…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe told a U.S. navy admiral that he would allow troops to enter Venezuela to capture FARC guerrillas, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks. Uribe…
Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe told a U.S. diplomatic mission that the threat posed by his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in Latin America was comparable to that of Hitler in…