BOGOTA, Colombia –  Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced Monday that he has prostate cancer. The 61-year-old Santos told reporters in announcing the cancer at the presidential palace, his wife Maria Clemencia at his side, that he has a 97 percent chance of a full recovery. Santos said the tumor [...]

Exclusive Interview With Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on NLB’s “From Washington al Mundo“ Uribe Strongly Criticizes Current Negotiations With FARC Terrorists and Urges Next U.S. President Not to Ignore Castro-Chavez Threat in the Region Click here to listen to the interview in its entirety. WASHINGTON D.C. – In an exclusive 30-minute [...]

El candidato opositor confirmó que mantendrá un encuentro privado con el presidente de Colombia. “Sostendré una reunión privada con el presidente Juan Manuel Santos. Es un encuentro que le solicitamos para tratar aspectos que nos unen como naciones, como, por ejemplo, la situación de nuestra frontera”, adelantó Henrique Capriles cuando terminaba la jornada del martes 18 de septiembre. [...]

No one I know of has ever calculated the net present value of future cash flows from the drug-trafficking activities of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). It would be a good number to have as Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos embarks on the fourth attempt in 30-some years [...]

Un líder de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), informó a la agencia AP, el nombre de los cinco dirigentes guerrilleros que negociarían con el gobierno colombiano una salida al conflicto armando en ese país. Según la fuente, los cinco voceros del grupo guerrillero serían Luciano Marín Arango, alias [...]

Source: NTN24 Otto Reich, exsubsecretario de estado de EE.UU. para América Latina, aseguró que la petición de las FARC de liberar a alias ‘Simón Trinidad’, para que haga parte de la mesa de negociación, es “poco seria”. Related PostsJon Perdue: Crackdown on Afro-Cubans destroys myth of racial equality (May 18, [...]

Uno de los 50 líderes de las FARC solicitados en extradición por Estados Unidos por cargos de narcotráfico y terrorismo, murió en un bombardeo en la selva del noroeste de Colombia, cumpliéndose así la advertencia del presidente Juan Manuel Santos de que la guerra continúa pese a que se negocia [...]

HAVANA — Cuba’s government has announced a news conference in Havana in which it is anticipated that Colombia’s main leftist rebel group could announce the start of talks to end a half-century old conflict. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos announced last week that preliminary talks to end the confrontation with [...]

By Fabio Rafael Fiallo The crumbling of the Berlin Wall and the development of social media have provided a renewed impetus to peoples’ aspirations to live under democratic rule. Political movements with dictatorial designs have been obliged to conceal their ulterior objectives and elaborate new tactics aimed at enticing the population [...]

A failure at a Venezuelan substation that supplies emergency electricity to Arauca, the capital of the same-named northeastern province on the border with Venezuela, left the city without electricity on Wednesday. Arauca province has been the Colombian region most affected by rebel sabotage of the electric grid, regional officials said. [...]