Tag: Juan Manuel Santos

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2016 - 05:49 UTC

  FARC will enter politics once peace deal is signed, announces top guerrilla leader

  

  Colombia’s FARC rebel guerrillas will enter politics and seek alliances with other parties after it signs a peace deal with the government, its secretive leader said, despite rebel fears they may be targeted by right-wing armed groups..

• Thursday, January 21st 2016 - 07:52 UTC

  Colombia's peace deal to end war almost there; joint request to UN Security Council

  

  Colombia’s government and rebel guerrillas Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) agreed to jointly ask the United Nations Security Council to help monitor and verify a future rebel disarmament, should the two sides reach a final peace deal to end their 50-year-old war, crossing a major stepping stone on the road to ending Latin America’s longest-running conflict.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2015 - 06:57 UTC

  President Santos confirms Colombian drug lord killed in military operation

  

  A wanted Colombian drug lord who had a $5-million price on his head from the United States has been killed in a military operation, authorities said Friday. Victor “Megateo” Navarro, a former guerrilla fighter accused of running a cocaine supply route along the Colombian-Venezuelan border, was first reported killed in August.

• Thursday, September 24th 2015 - 08:27 UTC

  Colombia and FARC put a date to end Latam's deadliest conflict, 23 March 2016

  

  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end Latin America's longest war within six months and sealed their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image.

• Tuesday, September 22nd 2015 - 10:14 UTC

  With mediation of Uruguay and Ecuador border Colombia / Venezuela reopens

  

  Colombia and Venezuela have agreed to restore diplomatic dialogue and oversee “progressive normalization” of their border, after a meeting between Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and his counterpart Nicolas Maduro.

• Monday, September 7th 2015 - 09:38 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil scheduled to meet Maduro over the border situation with Colombia

  

  In the margins of the Petrocaribe Summit currently taking place in Jamaica, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will be meeting the foreign ministers of Argentina and Brazil to discuss the border crisis with Colombia.

• Thursday, September 3rd 2015 - 10:17 UTC

  Colombia was one vote short in OAS to address the border crisis with Venezuela

  

  Colombia on Monday was one vote short at the Organization of American States to summon a meeting of foreign ministers over the ongoing border crisis with Venezuela. Bogotá had requested the high-level meeting up as the country is seeking international support for an ongoing diplomatic crisis with its socialist neighbor.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2015 - 06:37 UTC

  Pacific Alliance summit takes off in Peru with business conferences

  

  The Xth summit of the Pacific Alliance took off on Wednesday with the attendance of presidents from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru at the Peruvian sea-side resort of Paracas.

• Saturday, June 6th 2015 - 07:48 UTC

  Colombian congress bars presidential re-election; 70% of public opinion supports decision

  

  Colombia’s Congress has voted to bar presidents from seeking re-election, a move backed by President Juan Manuel Santos that undoes a law passed by his predecessor and rival Alvaro Uribe. The decision also marks a difference with the ongoing Latin American trend of successive re-elections, when not unlimited.

• Friday, June 5th 2015 - 06:27 UTC

  Colombia and FARC agree to name a “Clarification of the Truth Committee”

  

  The Colombian government and FARC guerrillas said they plan to form a truth commission to investigate atrocities committed during the country's five-decade civil war. The agreement was announced on Thursday and will consist of an “independent and impartial” body as soon as a final peace deal is reached.