Tag: Colombia

• Friday, June 13th 2014 - 08:23 UTC

  OAS deploys 74 observers for Colombia's presidential election second round

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) Electoral Observation Mission (EOM ) began the final deployment of observers ahead of the second round of the Colombian presidential election on Sunday June 15.

• Monday, June 9th 2014 - 06:01 UTC

  FARC declares a cease fire for the Colombian residential election runoff

  

  Colombia's FARC rebels declared a ceasefire on Sunday from June 9 to 30, a period that will cover a run-off presidential election being contested mainly over how to end five decades of war with the guerrillas.

• Monday, May 26th 2014 - 07:50 UTC

  Colombia: Zuluaga and Santos, plus allies, will decide on the peace dialogue on 15 June

  

  Right-wing opposition candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga won most votes in Colombia's presidential election on Sunday but fell short of a first-round victory and will face President Juan Manuel Santos in a close runoff on 15 June.

• Friday, May 23rd 2014 - 11:52 UTC

  Santos-Uribe rivalry has turned the presidential campaign into a mudslinging contest

  

  Accusations of bribes from drug traffickers, spying and email hacking have turned Colombia’s presidential election into an ugly slugfest that has further polarized a country trying to emerge from its violent past.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2014 - 00:35 UTC

  OAS deploys observers in Colombia for Sunday’s presidential election

  

  Former President of Costa Rica, José María Figueres, has begun the deployment of 64 international experts and observers in Colombia ahead of the country’s presidential election on Sunday May 25.

• Monday, May 19th 2014 - 07:58 UTC

  Calls for Colombian opposition presidential candidate to quit over spying

  

  A candidate in Colombia's presidential elections next Sunday has called on the leading opposition candidate, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, to quit the race after new video evidence of spying by his campaign consultant on peace talks with leftist rebels.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 08:55 UTC

  Another chapter of Colombia peace talks closed; FARC admits links with the drug trade

  

  Colombia's government and FARC rebels announced on Friday an agreement to jointly combat illicit drug trade in the country as part of a six-point peace plan. The deal comes ahead of May 25 elections in the country and is an implicit admission of the guerrillas' links with the drug trade.

• Thursday, May 8th 2014 - 04:38 UTC

  Colombian May 25 presidential candidates suffer severe credibility blows

  

  Just three weeks before Colombia’s presidential election begins, President Juan Manuel Santos’ re-election campaign has been hit by yet another blow. His chief campaign strategist J.J. Rendón resigned on Monday night amid controversial allegations that he took 12 million dollars from some of Colombia’s top drug lords in exchange for helping to negotiate their surrender with positive terms.

• Thursday, April 24th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Paraguay moving closer to Pacific Alliance; expects invitation for summit in Mexico

  

  A top Paraguayan official will be travelling to Colombia to establish 'closer links' with the Pacific Alliance and advance with the country's full membership request. Paraguay currently with observer status is also waiting for the official invitation to participate in the Pacific Alliance summit scheduled for 22 June in Mexico.

• Thursday, April 17th 2014 - 22:09 UTC

  OAS Secretary General Insulza: “García Márquez Raised Latin American Literature to Global Heights”

  

  José Miguel Insulza, today expressed his “deep sorrow over the death of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian and Latin American author, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, primordial figure of the most prolific and brilliant generation of authors our continent has ever seen, who raised the literature of Latin America to global heights.”