The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Caracas is one of the most dangerous cities in the world and under Hugo Chavez Venezuela's murder rate has surpassed that of neighbouring Colombia.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
European governments could strike a crucial blow against the drugs trade by allowing free access to their markets according to Colombia's foreign minister.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Victor Solano of ¿Comunicación? [es] congratulates the winners of the Simón Bolívar prize for journalism. Some are former classmates and students.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Maria reports on a developing scene in Bogotá when she and her fellow students witnessed panels falling from the Santo Domingo building that houses the School of Administration at Los Andes University. She used twitter and “citizen journalism 3.0″ to write what she was seeing. Her report can be found at equinoXio.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | yesterday
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime....
InfoZports (Free subscription) | yesterday
Colombia still does not overcome the lack of goals in their way to Southafrica. This Saturday they lost against Paraguay by 0 - 1 and stays with 10 points in the midle of the table, complicating their pass to the World Cup. The single goal of the match was scored by Salvador Cabañas at minute 9, and after that Paraguay controlled the match. Video of the goal Colombia 0 - 1 Paraguay / FIFA World Cup...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a second retired general in the disappearance of 12 people during the Colombian army's bloody 1985 retaking of the Palace of Justice from leftist rebels.
Blabbeando (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Without much fanfare, a Colombian Senate committee rejected a bill on Wednesday that would have brought the legislative branch of the Colombian government up to speed with several Constitutional Court rulings determining that same-sex couples should be granted access to limited partnership benefits. According to a statement released by Senator Gloria Inés Ramírez , the bill would have addressed what...
Shakirablogspot (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
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Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Russia has offered Colombia to hold joint operations against cocaine contraband, a source at the Federal Drug Control Service told Itar-Tass. Service Director Viktor Ivanov and Colombian Defence Mini...
Out of the Woods Now (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
One of the more interesting articles I've seen in response to Le Clézio's Nobel Prize win recounts his visit to Colombia in the 1970's and the time he spent with the Embera tribe of el Chocó (which he discussed in his book La fête chantée et autres essais de thème amérindien ): De sus experiencias con las culturas indígenas de México, Panamá y Colombia, el Premio Nobel destacó en alguna oportunidad:...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Buenos Aires: Argentina beat neighbours Uruguay 2-1 in a bruising World Cup qualifier on Saturday to end a run of six successive draws while South American group leaders Paraguay won again, 1-0 away to Colombia.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the opposition of engineering a political crisis in the country for next year in a renewed attempt to overthrow him. The opposition was preparing subversive plans together with "the paramilitaries in Colombia, the extreme fascist right of Venezuela and the U.S. imperialist government," Chavez said at events marking the Discovery of America, which is...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mike Power: Want to help Colombia escape its violent past? Come here and spend your cash
BoRev.Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
After Colombia, the Bush Administration's only ally in South America is Peru, so naturally President Alan Garcia has roughly the lowest approval ratings on the planet. Last week they were holding steady at a comical 15 percent, but then a...
