Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 26, 2010 on the Open Democracy website. When Juan Manuel Santos in his inauguration speech said that, “all the land of those displaced by violence, regardless of whose hands it might be in today, will be returned to its rightful owner”, many assumed [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 27, 2010 on the CNN News website. (CNN) – Colombia’s attorney general removed and disqualified Sen. Piedad Cordoba from the Congress for 18 years for having “promoted and collaborated” with the FARC guerrillas, the attorney general’s office said in a statement. Attorney General [...]
Discover Colombia News provides this syndication from the original story that was posted on September 25, 2010. UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) — Colombia on Friday declared its desire to have a seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2011-2012, representing Latin America and the Caribbean. “I make explicit today, before this Assembly, my [...]
WASHINGTON — Citing improvements in the Colombia human rights record, the Obama administration on Wednesday freed up more than $30 million in assistance to the country’s military to help it fight leftist insurgents and other drug-funded illegal armed groups. The administration said Colombia’s government had curbed what had been a growing number of extrajudicial killings [...]
MIAMI, FL–(Marketwire – September 20, 2010) – Latin Trade, the leading pan-regional business magazine focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, announced today that former Colombian President, Alvaro Uribe, will be recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 16th Annual Latin Trade BRAVO Business Awards, to be held on October 29 in Miami. Uribe [...]
President Barack Obama will meet with his Colombia counterpart Juan Manuel Santos on the sidelines of the United Nation’s General Assembly this week, the White House said on Monday. The meeting in New York on Friday will be Obama’s first with the former Colombia defense and finance minister since Santos won the presidency in June. [...]
As part of his trip to New York to participate next week in the Assembly of the Organization of the United Nations, President Juan Manuel Santos will hold several meetings with Heads of State and world leaders at the UN in New York. Colombia’s president said that during his participation in United Nations General Assembly, [...]
