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Interconexion energetica, vista desde Washington

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
El gobierno de los Estados Unidos no esta muy preocupado por la construccion de un nuevo gasoducto entre Venezuela y Colombia.Spanish
Country(s): 
Bolivia
Ecuador
Mexico
Venezuela
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security
U.S. Policy

Energy integration, seen from Washington

Sunday, July 9, 2006
The U.S. government is not very worried about the construction of a new natural gas pipeline between Venezuela and Colombia. Likewise, Washington did not complain publicly about the gas-sector nationalization carried out by Evo Morales in Bolivia.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security
U.S. Policy

The Real Solution for Colombia's Drug Problems

Monday, July 3, 2006
In "More Help for Colombia" [op-ed, June 26], Robert D. Novak employs a tired tactic: slapping the "soft on drugs" label on any who oppose the current U.S. policy toward Colombia.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
The Washington Post
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

En armonia, por el momento

Sunday, June 11, 2006
No debe sorprender que al gobierno de George Bush y a la mayoria republicana del Congreso estadounidense les complacio muchisimo la reeleccion de Álvaro Uribe. La felicidad del Departamento de Estado fue evidente: en menos de 48 horas anuncio una mSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

In harmony, for the moment

Sunday, June 11, 2006
It shouldn’t surprise us that the Bush administration and the Republican majority in the U.S. Congress were very pleased with Álvaro Uribe’s reelection.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

De Faluya al Plan Patriota

Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Todos los extranjeros que nos preocupamos por Colombia queremos expresar nuestras condolencias a las familias de las victimas de la reciente ola de ataques guerrilleros que ha consumido lugares como Iscuande, Puerto Asis, Vistahermosa y Mutata.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Politics and Security
U.S. Policy

Una derrota en Washington

Sunday, November 6, 2005
Por fin el Congreso estadounidense aprobo el proyecto de ley de ayuda al exterior para 2006. Y los del gobierno de Uribe deben estar infelices.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Aprobacion de la reeleccion es un mensaje de continuidad a Estados Unidos

Thursday, October 20, 2005
En el 2004, cuando se estaba debatiendo en Washington la duplicacion del numero de tropas de E.U. permitidas en Colombia, la gente del gobierno de George Bush utilizaba un argumento curioso en defensa de la propuesta.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Tiempo (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Estados Unidos, las AUC y la extradicion (PDF)

Friday, July 1, 2005
Para el Gobierno colombiano la amenaza de la extradicion es su as bajo la manga, asi que podria aprovechar plenamente esa ventaja en las negociaciones con las auc y sacar concesiones de los lideres de las autodefensas.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
UN Development Program
Wire Service: 
Hechos Del Callejon
Tag(s): 
Extraditions
U.S. Policy
Conflict

Ni Siquiera Migajas

Sunday, June 26, 2005
La politica estadounidense hacia Colombia refleja, aunque de forma desigual, las prioridades de ambos partidos. Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy
Conflict

Security: An electoral liability for Uribe?

Sunday, March 27, 2005
A bit more than a year before the Colombian presidential elections, President Uribe is doing so well in the polls that his likely opponents are either hoping that the Constitutional Court blocks his re-election, or they simply have their gaze truly fixed English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
FARC
Tag(s): 
Conflict

La seguridad: ¿Una debilidad electoral para Uribe?

Sunday, March 27, 2005
Un ano y pico antes de las elecciones colombianas, el presidente Uribe sigue tan popular en las encuestas como sus probables opositores, o estan esperando que la Corte Constitucional bloquee su reeleccion, o simplemente tienen su verdadera mirada fija en Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
FARC
Tag(s): 
Conflict

Extradicion: una espada de doble filo

Sunday, January 9, 2005
El miercoles pasado, Simon Trinidad aparecio por primera vez ante una corte aqui en Washington. Su extradicion y el intento del presidente Uribe de condicionarla a la liberacion de los 63 rehenes 'canjeables' en poder de las Farc han desatado una polemicaSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
Semana (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Extraditions
U.S. Policy

Failing Grades: Evaluating the Results of Plan Colombia (PDF)

Saturday, January 1, 2005
On July 13, 2000, President Bill Clinton signed into law an emergency bill giving Colombia $860 million “to seek peace, fight drugs, build the economy, and deepen democracy.” The U.S. and Colombian governments sold the aid package as the U.S. contrEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
Yale Journal Of International Affairs
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
U.S. Policy

Bush and Uribe make their shopping list

Sunday, November 14, 2004
Colombia - and not Mexico, as was the case four years ago - will be the first Latin American country to get a bilateral visit from George Bush after his reelection. This shouldn't surprise us: there are very few governments in the hemisphere that have polEnglish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Free Trade
U.S. Policy

La 'lista de compras' de Uribe y Bush

Sunday, November 14, 2004
Colombia –y no Mexico, como ocurrio hace 4 anos– sera el pais latinoamericano que recibira la primera visita del Bush reelegido. Esto no nos debe sorprender: son muy pocos los gobiernos del hemisferio que apoyan politicamente la aventura de Iraq, el lSpanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Free Trade
U.S. Policy

Diluyendo las Distinciones

Sunday, October 10, 2004
La relacion militar entre EU y America Latina esta cambiando rapidamente, a medida que la “guerra contra el terrorismo” va reemplazando a la guerra fria y la guerra contra las drogas como la mision principal de los programas de ayuda militar.Spanish
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Civil-Military Relations
Terrorism
U.S. Policy

Two Blows to President Uribe's Image

Sunday, August 1, 2004
Here in the United States, nearly all the members of Congress, NGOs and journalists who normally pay attention to Colombia are distracted by the presidential campaign and the never-ending flow of bad news from Iraq.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
U.S. Policy
Conflict

Golpes a la imagen de Uribe

Sunday, August 1, 2004
Aqui en los Estados Unidos, casi todos los congresistas, ONG y periodistas que normalmente se preocupan por Colombia, estan distraidos por la pelea Bush-Kerry y el desfile de malas noticias que nos sigue llegando desde Iraq.Spanish
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
El Espectador (Colombia)
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy
Tag(s): 
Human Rights
U.S. Policy

The Tragedy of Alternative Development in Colombia

Monday, December 3, 2001
Go to one of Colombia’s coca-growing zones, and almost everyone there will tell you that they hate having all those green bushes in their fields.English
Country(s): 
Colombia
Author(s): 
Adam Isacson
Publisher / Source: 
Colombia Journal
Wire Service: 
Center For International Policy

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