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Montevideo, May 4th 2024 - 09:21 UTC

Tag: Juan Manuel Santos

  • Monday, July 22nd 2013 - 06:21 UTC

    Colombia orders strong offensive after guerrillas ambush and kill 19 soldiers

    Santos: “I instructed our forces not to stop shooting until the conflict is over”

    Colombia’s president has ordered the military to mount a strong offensive against the country’s biggest rebel movement, FARC, after guerrillas killed 19 soldiers this weekend in two regions. President Juan Manuel Santos said Sunday the army will go after the rebels even though the government has been in peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia since last year.

  • Monday, July 15th 2013 - 18:00 UTC

    Cristina Fernandez will be absent from AMIA bombing commemoration

    The president will be visiting her peer Colombian Juan Manuel Santos

    The Argentine Foreign Ministry confirmed that President Cristina Fernández will for the second consecutive year not attend the AMIA Jewish community association’s memorial to commemorate the anniversary of the terrorist attack on its headquarters, which killed 85 and injured more than 300 in 1994.

  • Wednesday, June 26th 2013 - 17:39 UTC

    Santos wants Mujica in Colombia to help with the peace reconciliation process

    Foreign minister Holguin extended the invitation to President Mujica

    President Juan Manuel Santos wants his Uruguayan peer Jose Mujica “much closer” to the Colombian peace process which is currently taking place in Cuba and has invited him to the country, said Foreign minister Maria Angela Holguin during a visit to Montevideo.

  • Tuesday, June 25th 2013 - 17:04 UTC

    Colombia renews IMF two-year 5.8bn dollars flexible credit line

    President Santos: IMF contingency to manage potential shocks and sustain strong economic growth

    The IMF said on Monday it had approved a new two-year 5.84 billion dollars flexible credit line for Colombia, following a request by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos. The new flexible credit line will replace a previous 6bn two-year program, which recently expired.

  • Tuesday, June 11th 2013 - 21:57 UTC

    Israel and Colombia sign far reaching free trade agreement

    President Santos with Shimon Peres at the signing ceremony in Jerusalem

    Israel and Colombia this week signed in Jerusalem a free trade treaty to increase trade and promote investments in the fields of technology. The treaty which was reached after fifteen years of intense negotiations now needs legislative approval which should be accomplished by early 2014 according to Israeli political sources.

  • Friday, June 7th 2013 - 23:40 UTC

    President Santos in London says that cooperation with NATO has been going “since a long time”

    The Colombian leader on Friday met with PM David Cameron

    President Juan Manuel Santos revealed on Friday in London that Colombia has been cooperating with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, “since a long time”. Last June first the Colombian Executive announced that the Ministry of Defence was going to sign an agreement with NATO “to begin the process of becoming closer to NATO”.

  • Tuesday, June 4th 2013 - 05:27 UTC

    Strong reaction from Bolivarian countries to Colombia’s cooperation with NATO

    “A threat for Bolivarian countries” claimed Bolivia’s Evo Morales who requested an urgent meeting of Unasur Sec Council

    President Juan Manuel Santos announcement over the weekend that Colombia will look for a cooperation understanding with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) on their invitation, has irked the so called Latinamerican group of ‘anti-imperialist countries’, at a moment when relations between neighbouring Colombia and Venezuela have hit a new low.

  • Friday, May 31st 2013 - 07:27 UTC

    Venezuela threatens Colombia after Santos meets opposition leader Capriles

    Cabello: “President Santos is putting a bomb in the good relations that President Chavez”

    Caracas is furious over a Wednesday meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua told state television the meeting “will bring a derailment of the good relations that we have” while Parliament Speaker Diosdado Cabello compared the meeting to “placing a bomb on the train.”

  • Tuesday, May 28th 2013 - 07:01 UTC

    Biden in Colombia praises peace talks and success of bilateral trade agreement

    Colombian president Santos and the US Vice-president at the press conference

    In his first visit to Colombia in more than a decade, US Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday that he is pleased security concerns can now take a back seat to trade and economic issues in talks with Washington’s long-time ally. Biden also praised President Juan Manuel Santos for helping lead Latin America toward a “middle class, democratic and secure” future.

  • Monday, May 27th 2013 - 02:59 UTC

    Colombia and rebels reach agreement of agrarian reform and development of rural areas

    President Santos wants the talks ended this year

    Colombia and the Marxist-led FARC rebels have reached agreement on the critical issue of agrarian reform, the two sides said in what appeared to be a major step forward for the peace process aimed at ending their long war.