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This section includes the latest news relating to U.S. security policy around the world. Updated daily, the news provided in this searchable database highlights the most relevant security developments from around the world. 

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Diputado sucreno, investigado por 'parapolitica', a La Picota en Bogota

Sunday, August 19, 2007
La Direccion del Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario (Inpec) decidio el traslado de fue el presidente de la Asamblea en Sucre, Angel Villarreal BarraganSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Hervidero en Casanare

Sunday, August 19, 2007
El debate electoral en Casanare se vive en medio de denuncias de candidatos inhabilitados, investigaciones de la Fiscalia, favorecimientos oficiales y financiacion con dineros ‘non sanctos’Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)

Superar dificultades es dif�cil pero no imposible

Sunday, August 19, 2007
El panorama del proceso entre Gobierno y Eln muestra que las partes a�n tienen mucho camino por recorrer y diferencias por superarSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Colprensa

Chavez to visit Colombia to push for hostage swap

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will visit Colombia this month to try to jump-start talks aimed at freeing hostages held for years in Colombian jungles by leftist rebelsEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Author(s): 
Hugh Bronstein
Wire Service: 
Reuters (UK)
Tag(s): 
Foreign Policy
Conflict

Atentado en la via al mar deja un civil muerto y cinco heridos

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Un cilindro bomba fue lanzado contra una patrulla del Ejercito que se movilizaba por La Maria, a la altura del kilometro 88 de TumacoSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Violence

‘Miramos cumplimiento de sentencias’

Sunday, August 19, 2007
El jurista Pablo Saavedra Alessandri sostuvo que la Corte supervisa si Colombia esta ejecutando o no sus mandatos en procesos emblematicos contra el EstadoSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Enrique Rivas G.
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Human Rights

Cronolog�a de los encuentros en Cuba

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Julio de 2007 <br />Las partes sostuvieron una cita en Cuba, centrada en el an&#65533;lisis pol&#65533;tico del momento y las dificultades del proceso.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia)

Colombia's Fall From Grace

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Colombia will be left to sit back and watch this fall as two of its neighbors -- Peru and Panama -- become the latest Latin American countries to enter into free trade agreementsEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Marcela Sanchez
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Tag(s): 
Free Trade
U.S. Policy

Gobierno desplaza a efectivos de FFAA para controlar orden en zona de desastre

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Los saqueos y pillaje cometidos por desesperados damnificados del terremoto en el sur, provocaron que el gobierno disponga redoblar el contingente militarSpanish
Country(s): 
Peru
Publisher / Source: 
La Republica (Peru)
Tag(s): 
Security

Entre acuerdo humanitario y no al despeje

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Mientras la senadora Piedad Cordoba, autorizada por Uribe, ejerce como facilitadora del acuerdo humanitario, el ministro de Agricultura, Andres Felipe Arias, tambien autorizado desde la Casa de Narino, promueve por los municipios una campana por el NSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Tirofijo, un fantasma en las filas de las Farc

Sunday, August 19, 2007
Desaparici&#65533;n de Marulanda a&#65533;n despierta especulacionesSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
El Colombiano (Medellin Colombia)
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Colombia sheds messy drug spraying at last

Sunday, August 19, 2007
The U.S.-financed spraying was meant to hit the drug crops. But it was clear to me after three days that it wasn't very accurateEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
David Adams
Publisher / Source: 
The St. Petersburg Times
Tag(s): 
Drug Trade
U.S. Policy

Audio: U.S. Militarization of Latin America

Monday, April 23, 2007
Lisa Haugaard is Executive Director of the Latin America Working Group, Adam Isacson coordinated the Columbia program for the Center for International Policy, and Joy Olson is Executive Director of The Washington Office on Latin America. English
Publisher / Source: 
Chicago Public Radio
Wire Service: 
WBEZ
Tag(s): 
Civil-Military Relations
U.S. Policy

Audio: Underreported: Anti-Union Violence in Colombia

Thursday, April 5, 2007
In mid-March, the Ohio-based banana company Chiquita Brands admitted to paying $1.7 million to Colombian right-wing death squads who have killed thousands, including union organizers. English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
The Leonard Lopate Show
Publisher / Source: 
WNYC
Tag(s): 
Free Trade
Security
Conflict

The United States and Colombia: the next plan

Monday, March 12, 2007
The United States could play a decisive new role in helping a crisis-ridden Colombia move toward being a modern democracy. In the wake of George W Bush's brief visit to Bogota, Adam Isacson assesses the chances of a policy shift in Washington.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
OpenDemocracy.net
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

President Bush Vows to Fight Drug Trade in Latin America

Monday, March 12, 2007
President Bush visited Guatemala Monday, after pledging Sunday on a stopover in Colombia to seek more aid for the country to fight drug traffickers. Experts discuss the growing drug trade and the administration's efforts to curtail it.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Publisher / Source: 
PBS NewsHour
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Bush makes a quick stop in Colombia

Friday, March 9, 2007
President Bush will be in Colombia this weekend to show support for America's strongest ally in the region. Kai Ryssdal talks to foreign-policy analyst Adam Isaacson about the U.S.-Colombia relationship.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Venezuela
Publisher / Source: 
American Public Media
Wire Service: 
Marketplace
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Isacson: U.S. Needs 'Humility' in Latin America

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Adam Isacson, director of programs at the Center for International Policy in Washington, discusses the Bush administration's 2008 foreign aid proposal for Latin America.English
Publisher / Source: 
Council on Foreign Relations
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

&quot;Elecciones legislativas en EE.UU.: Que esta en juego para Colombia&quot;

Saturday, November 4, 2006
Casi todos los analistas en Washington estan diciendo que las elecciones legislativas del martes pueden darle al Partido Democrata el control de al menos una camara del Congreso estadounidense, despues de 12 anos en la minoria. Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

&quot;Diez amenazas a la luna de miel&quot;

Sunday, August 6, 2006
El gobierno de &Aacute;lvaro Uribe no hubiera podido tener relaciones mas cercanas con el de George Bush durante los ultimos cuatro anos.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

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