From Dotconnector : An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department regarding...
Press agencies have informed that Venezuelan ruler, Lt. Col. Hugo Rafael Chávez, has ordered the mobilization of fifteen thousand soldiers to the frontier with Colombia in his unbounded urge to proclaim the existence of a supposed imminent aggression, or something like it, on the part of Colombia. For a long time now Chávez has been accusing the government of Alvaro Uribe of a conspiracy...
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An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department regarding the military agreement...
Alleging that anti-communist paramilitaries from Colombia are invading Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez has dispatched 15,000 National Guards to six states bordering its neighbor. On Thursday Venezuelan Vice President and Defense Minister Ramon Carrizalez announced to reporters that the soldiers will be deployed to the southern states of Amazonas, Apure and Bolivar, and the southwestern states of Barinas,...
By Eva Golinger 11-05-09 An official document from the Department of the US Air Force reveals that the military base in Palanquero, Colombia will provide the Pentagon with “…an opportunity for conducting full spectrum operations throughout South America…” This information contradicts the explainations offered by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and the US State Department...
olombia's President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday urged Venezuela not to create divisions like the "Berlin Wall" between the feuding neighbors as he sought to cool a crisis fueled by border violence and espionage charges. Ties between the Andean countries have frayed over the murders of nine Colombian civilians and two Venezuelan soldiers near the frontier and accusations from President Hugo...
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez describes agreement as threat to region's security Colombia and the US today signed a pact to expand Washington's military's presence in the country. The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, said the agreement was a threat to the region's security . The US ambassdor, William Brownfield, signed the deal with the Colombian foreign, justice and defence ministers...
Critics of Colombia President Álvaro Uribe's decision to sign the accord say it is 'unbalanced' for Colombia. Far-left and moderate leaders alike have expressed concerns about an increasing US presence in the region.
The “justice and peace” process the Colombian government offered to right-wing paramilitaries is at risk of falling apart ONE of the most horrifying testimonies to Colombia’s gruesome internal conflict is a video sent to prosecutors that shows a paramilitary fighter in the northern town of Aguachica wielding a machete to hack off the hands of a victim who is still alive. The town...
The AFL-CIO is saddened and angered by news of the assassination of Honorio Llorente Melendez, a union organizer for the CUT—Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (Unitary Central of Workers) of Magdalena Medio—in Colombia . Until he was fired recently for trade union activity, Llorente had served as treasurer of Sintrainagro (National Union of Agricultural Industry Workers) in Santander. A...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Monday requested his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez to coordinate measures aimed at protecting people living on their common borders. The call was made after 10 people were killed at the border area on Saturday . "I make a call to the Venezuelan government, to its president; for over any difference, we seek the way to coordinate the activities to protect...
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Sunday that police had killed Hermes Triana, one of the top leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the largest rebel group in the country. National Police launched an operation in Puerto Rico, a rural town in the southwestern province of Caqueta, where Triana, known as Pata Mala (Bad Paw), had been hiding, Uribe said. Triana was the leader...
Video link : * Puerto Rico: Thousands of residents near Bayamon have been urged to evacuate after a fuel storage facility explosion yesterday spewed massive columns of toxic smoke. * Latin America: According to the International Monetary Fund the global economic slowdown will cost Latin America over $150 billion in lost output. * Colombia: Time is running short on whether or not President Alvaro Uribe...
Colombia Reports, 20 October 2009 Ecuador's National Court of Justice declined to process an extradition request involving the former defense minister of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, upon finding that the judge making the request had incomplete documentation. A court official who declined to be named saying he was not authorized to give information, told the AP that "as soon as the papers are...
Only members of president's Sandinista party took part in ruling by heavily politicised court Leftist Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega appears to have won the right to seek re-election in 2011, though opponents call the decision illegal and vow to fight it. The constitutional commission of the supreme court yesterday overturned a ban on consecutive re-election and on serving more than two terms,...
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