Jeremy McDermott
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 00:00
The government has realised that encouraging rebels to desert is more effective than killing them
Monday, December 1, 2008 - 00:00
Colombians around the globe joined marches calling for an end to kidnapping and hoping to remind people that Marxist guerrillas still hold dozens of hostages
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela endures 48 murders for every 100,000 people each year. Britain, by contrast, has 2 per 100,000
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuela's daily oil production has fallen by a quarter since President Hugo Chavez won power
Friday, September 12, 2008 - 00:00
Bolivia has expelled the US ambassador, accusing him of fomenting the civil unrest that threatens not only the country's first indigenous Indian president, Evo Morales, but the unity of the nation itself.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 - 00:00
"We believe it is possible to negotiate with individual blocs and fronts and offer them a dignified way out," said Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo
Saturday, August 2, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's mass graves are starting to reveal the true horror of more than a decade of paramilitary massacres and murders. But few believe the full truth will ever be known or that the government wants it all revealed
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 00:00
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to call for an end to kidnapping and a halt to the country's 44-year civil conflict
Sunday, July 20, 2008 - 00:00
Hundreds of thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets to call for an end to kidnapping and a halt to the country's 44-year civil conflict
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
So if the Farc are on the ropes, the right-wing paramilitaries now officially disbanded and the biggest civilian cartel (called the Norte Del Valle cartel) has been smashed, then who is handling all this coke