John Paul Rathbone
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00
Demonstrators, wearing white and carrying placards emblazoned with the slogan "Peace is the Way", marched through Bogota and several other Colombian cities
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 00:00
Both ex-presidents raise valid points - but the manner in which they have done so has exasperated many.
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 00:00
"You will have industrialisation in Mexico that didn’t exist before," Mr Lozoya, chief executive of Pemex, the state-owned oil company, declares. "After all, we share the same geology as the USA"
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 00:00
This wait is more than an inconvenience. It represents a genuine economic cost – and to both sides.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 00:00
Rather than compare Venezuela today to the Venezuela of yesterday, the opposition are now tacitly comparing it to what Venezuela could have been.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 - 00:00
If Mr Capriles wins on Sunday, the world will look to the Venezuelan army and the rest of Latin America to recognise and uphold the result. Yet even assuming Mr Chavez recognises defeat, it will still be a difficult transition.
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 00:00
It was in November 2011, when Colombian troops killed Farc guerrilla leader Alfonso Cano and the rebel group still wanted to keep peace talks going, that Bogota knew for sure that this time the Farc was serious.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 00:00
Peace is the only lasting solution. But how to achieve it? Enter those perennial US pariahs, at Colombia's request, Cuba and Venezuela.
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 00:00
General Óscar Naranjo is known as the world’s "best policeman", or at least that is what the Canadian mounties have called Colombia's top cop. Gen Naranjo, profiled here by the FT, is also looking for a job.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 00:00
Many hold a stereotypical view of a country of drug lords and unbridled violence, in the same way England is sometimes stuck in popular perception as a land of drunken lords, cups of tea and bowler hats.