Sibylla Brodzinsky
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 00:00
Britain has quietly ended nearly a decade of military aid to Colombia's armed forces after accusations of gross violations of human rights, including the murder of civilians who were shot and reported as guerrillas killed in combat.
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00
Colombia's successes against drug lords, a former senior US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official explains, are the result of decades of experience by top law-enforcement officials, of Colombia's policy of extraditing wanted traffickers to the US
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
Daniel Rendon, Colombia's most powerful cocaine trafficker whose war of expansion may have led to 3,000 deaths, was caught `like a dog.'
Monday, April 13, 2009 - 00:00
The bill would overturn a 1994 Constitutional Court sentence which ruled that prohibiting the use of drugs violated the right to ''free development of personality'' set forth in Colombia's constitution
Monday, March 30, 2009 - 00:00
The Uribe government recently joined the effort, buying land and funding the construction of the new ring of villages. It has environmental, political, and security motives for participating
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 00:00
The FARC's strategy is to avoid combat situations with the military and concentrate on quick, clean attacks on infrastructure and urban areas.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 00:00
The release of four hostages Sunday marks an attempt by FARC to regain public credibility after a devastating year
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
The real consensus for action to free the hostages will have to come from within Mr. Uribe's conservative government and top leaders of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:00
The town of Trujillo, associated for years with Colombia's violence, is also a symbol of the country's attempt to acknowledge victims and search for truth and justice
Friday, November 7, 2008 - 00:00
The Army's successes, however, have been muted by a macabre revelation that the Colombian military reportedly killed civilians to inflate their rebel body count in an effort to appear more successful