Financial Times (UK)
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
"With 10 times the troops and a $7bn annual budget, the least [Colombia] could do is control the border," said Wellington Sandoval, Ecuadorean defence minister, during a recent surprise visit to Puerto Nuevo
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 00:00
Several thousand protesters took to the streets of Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires on Tuesday night after President Cristina Fernandez refused to back down on a tax rise
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 00:00
She marked the milestone this week amid protests from farmers over a rise in tariffs on the lucrative grain exports that are fuelling Argentina’s economic boom, and with a deepening debacle over alleged government interference in official inflation data
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 - 00:00
“We’re not winning this war,” says an off-duty policeman who has come to pay his last respects. “It is just getting worse”
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 00:00
The White House is likely to pursue what it has claimed would be its least preferred option – forcing Congress to consider the deal without having guaranteed bipartisan support
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
The raid, in which Raul Reyes, a Farc commander was killed, has sparked a widening diplomatic row
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 - 00:00
Analysts say Venezuela's army would be no match for an adversary with 254,000 people on active service - more than twice the size of Venezuela's 115,000-strong force
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
The announcement, made on the Venezuelan presid­ent’s weekly television show Alo Presidente, came a day after Colombian forces killed a senior commander of the leftwing Farc guerrilla move­ment
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
The danger that tensions between Colombia and Venezuela could erupt into open conflict is increasing, in part because of Mr Chavez’s increasingly explicit sympathy for the left-wing Colombian guerrillas
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 00:00
Four hostages held for more than six years by leftwing Colombian guerrillas have been released as part of a deal brokered by Hugo Chavez