Frank Bajak
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 00:00
So closely was the Syrian immigrant's son tied to what Washington has deemed a narcotics-trafficking cabal of military men loyal to leftist President Hugo Chavez that his arrest last year in a Colombian border city had U.S. and Colombian drug agents beami
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican officials publicly disputed Thursday the declaration by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton the previous day that Mexico is "looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago"
Monday, August 9, 2010 - 00:00
While state control is taking root in those areas, huge red zones of rebel control remain.
Monday, July 12, 2010 - 00:00
Betancourt stressed during the TV interview that her intention in filing for the damages - for her as well as her mother and two children - was to "open the way so that other people who have been kidnapped can get compensation."
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 00:00
The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend a prestigious fellowship at Harvard University.
Monday, June 21, 2010 - 00:00
Juan Manuel Santos got 69 percent of the vote in Sunday's runoff in a ringing endorsement of his promise to continue the U.S.-backed security policies of outgoing conservative President Alvaro Uribe that he helped craft.
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 00:00
Mockus recently told an interviewer he thought Colombia should follow the Costa Rican model and dissolve its military. Backtracking later, he said he wasn't actually proposing dismantling Colombia's armed forces, still locked in a war with the FARC.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 00:00
The former policeman said Santiago Uribe also claimed his older brother, who was a senator at the time, was fully aware of the death squad. But former Maj. Juan Carlos Meneses, 42, said he had no evidence Alvaro Uribe had any knowledge of the illegal mili
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 00:00
While hardly Colombia's only river repository for human remains, the Cauca may well be its most prolific
Monday, November 9, 2009 - 00:00
Throughout Latin America, native languages are disappearing and Indians are under intense pressure to speak Spanish. At the same time, Indians have little access to post-secondary education