Tag: Colombia

• Thursday, August 23rd 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  The democratic challenge to dictatorships and xenophobia in Latin America

  

  During the conference entitled “The democratic challenge to the autocracies of the 21st century in Latin America,” organized by the Center for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL) on Tuesday at the Senate of Uruguay, the Government of Venezuela was described as a “dictatorship” and it was exhorted that the democratic governments of the region, especially the Uruguayan government, not be indifferent or “accomplices” against today’s Latin America’s autocratic governments.

• Sunday, August 19th 2018 - 18:26 UTC

  Complications for the diaspora: Venezuelans can only flee with a passport to Peru or Ecuador

  

  The Ministry of the Interior of Peru has announced that as of the dawn of next Saturday, August 25, Venezuelans will be required to present their passport to be admitted to the country. This measure coincides with that taken by Ecuador this week when it reached record figures in the entry of Venezuelan citizens in that country. The National Superintendency of Migrations of Peru recorded last Saturday the largest number of Venezuelan citizens who entered the country in a single day: more than 5,100.

• Wednesday, August 8th 2018 - 06:50 UTC

  Colombian president Duque anticipates “corrections” to the peace deal with guerrillas

  

  Colombia’s youngest elected president was sworn in to office on Tuesday, promising to “make corrections” to a peace deal with leftist rebels that has divided the country and to crack down on lingering armed groups still roaming the countryside.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Ivan Duque takes office as Colombian president; staunch ally of the Trump administration

  

  Ivan Duque, who will be sworn in as Colombia’s president on Tuesday, is poised to become an unusually strong ally for the Trump administration after he made a project of cultivating ties with the White House and spotlighting shared views on drug control, counterterrorism and the unfolding political and economic crisis in next-door Venezuela.

• Friday, August 3rd 2018 - 09:38 UTC

  Colombia's kingmaker withdraws his Senate resignation letter

  

  Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, accused of witness tampering and bribery, asked the Senate to ignore his resignation letter so that his case remains with the Supreme Court. Uribe, who was in office from 2002 to 2010 and mounted a military offensive against Marxist guerrillas, said on Monday he would resign his seat in the Senate to concentrate on his defense after the Supreme Court called on him to testify.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2018 - 07:35 UTC

  Santos convinced that Maduro's days in Venezuela are numbered, “in the near future”

  

  Nicolas Maduro's days as president of crisis-ravaged Venezuela are numbered, his outgoing Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos told the French government news agency.“I can see it happening in the near future,” said Santos, pointing to the International Monetary Fund's latest projection that Venezuela's inflation will hit one million percent this year.

• Saturday, July 14th 2018 - 19:53 UTC

  Corruption unleashed: Venezuelan government denounced for enriching itself with aid funds

  

  According to a financial intelligence panel that met Friday in Cartagena, Colombia; in Venezuela, Maduro's government “uses food and humanitarian aid as a weapon for social control.”

• Thursday, July 5th 2018 - 08:10 UTC

  FIFA strongly rebukes Maradona's comments on the England/Colombia match

  

  FIFA says it “strongly rebukes” comments made by its ambassador Diego Maradona criticising American referee Mark Geiger's handling of England's win against Colombia in the World Cup round of 16 on Tuesday. It's the third controversy involving the Argentina great at the World Cup, which he has mostly attended as a VIP guest of FIFA.

• Wednesday, June 20th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Ecuadorean ex president included in kidnapping investigation

  

  Ecuador's highest court has ordered former President Rafael Correa included in an investigation into a 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker. The judge in charge of the case gave Correa a month to clear his name.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 07:20 UTC

  President elect Duque pledges to unite Colombia and change the peace accord with FARC

  

  Colombia's President-elect Ivan Duque, who swept aside leftist Gustavo Petro in Sunday's election, pledged to unite the nation after a divisive campaign but insisted he would change a landmark peace accord with leftist rebels