The Guardian (UK)
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
The OPEC nation says it loses 27,000 barrels per day and $1 billion per year to traffickers ranging from small-time peddlers like Rueda to large-scale smuggling involving corrupt border officials
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 00:00
It is not coca growing per se that fuels the conflict in Colombia, but the fact that cocaine is illegal - a point lost on most policymakers
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 00:00
The Republican senator John McCain yesterday renewed criticism of Barack Obama's foreign policy, accusing him of being soft on Cuba
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 00:00
One of the world's richest cities received £15m in subsidised diesel - gracias, Uncle Hugo - and in return the cracked concrete craze that is Caracas received ... Hmm, not the easiest sentence to finish
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 00:00
The guerrilla, 45, was under pressure from Colombia's US-backed security forces as well as her own family, who reportedly pleaded with her to quit before she was killed
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 00:00
The fate of the Colombia agreement has been up in the air since April when Pelosi pushed through a vote to indefinitely delay action
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 00:00
The surge in demand has sustained a ruthless landgrab by rightwing paramilitary groups in Colombia's rural areas, War on Want, a London-based advocacy group, says
Friday, May 9, 2008 - 00:00
A judge on Wednesday gave a 54-year prison term to a cashiered army lieutenant colonel who was convicted of ordering the massacre of 10 elite anti-drug police
Thursday, May 1, 2008 - 00:00
The twins led a gang which, from the 1990s, allegedly smuggled huge quantities of cocaine from South America's top producer to the US
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 - 00:00
He faces charges of allegedly seeking the political backing of paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso in 2002 just before national elections and of negotiating with another warlord the purchase of land in areas under paramilitary contro