Hugh Bronstein
Friday, September 26, 2008 - 00:00
The brother of Colombia's justice minister was arrested Thursday as part of an organized crime probe linking dozens of political allies of President Alvaro Uribe to the country's cocaine trade
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 00:00
The No. 1-rated show is tinged with nostalgia for the early days of cocaine trafficking and the explosion of wealth it brought Colombians willing to use crime to escape the country's rigid class structure and dead-end economy.
Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 00:00
Sixty-three percent of those surveyed had a favorable opinion of Betancourt, according to the poll
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's thriving cocaine business provides lucrative opportunities that tempt poor and rich alike, often bruising relatives who hold public office
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian coffee reserves are running thin and exports will be cut hard if a seven-day-long truck drivers' strike lasts into next week
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian coffee exports were slowed on Tuesday in a six-day-old truck drivers' strike, keeping 30,000 60-kilogram sacks of beans per day from getting to port
Sunday, July 27, 2008 - 00:00
Sen. Carlos Garcia, head of Uribe's main coalition party, was seized in a hotel in the Caribbean resort city of Santa Marta. He was the 31st politician to be jailed
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 00:00
The eight Afro-Colombians were kidnapped last week by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, while travelling on the country's northwestern jungle rivers
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's FARC guerrillas have released eight hostages in the first such handover since the rebel group was tricked in a military operation to free Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other captives on July 2, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Th
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 00:00
The new accord will include a 9.1 percent pay increase for the first year of the deal and a raise of 1.75 percent plus Colombia's inflation rate for the second half