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Political Feud Could Cripple Colombia -
It's not unusual in Latin American politics for presidents to clash with their predecessors who once helped elect them, but the current feud between former Colombian President Al...
U.S. Lessons in Afghanistan Can Aid Colombia -
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta got a glimpse into how America's military's experience in Afghanistan is contributing to the U.S. counterinsurgency training in Colombia....
Obama's Latin American Disconnect -
The unfolding Secret Service imbroglio has completely overshadowed the results of the Summit of the Americas that took place in Colombia last weekend. That is a pity, for the gathe...
The U.S.-Latin America Disconnect -
From the photographs of Hillary Clinton partying up at a Cartagena disco during last weekend's Sixth Summit of the Americas, it appears she was the only U.S. official who enjoyed ...
What Comes After the War on Drugs -
Colombia's president has the right idea. We must, first, accept that the status quo is a mess. That doesn't mean committing to any particular change. It just means acknowledging w...
U.S. Drug Appetite Plagues Latin America -
As the drug war continues to ravage much of Mexico, other countries in Central America, and the Caribbean, the US Office of National Drug Control Policy could learn something from...
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Latin Leaders Want to End Drug War - Benny Avni, New York Post
At this weekend’s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, a number of leaders will plead with President Obama to end the futile war on drugs. Obama won’t change US pol...
Lift Latin America's 'Drug Curse' - Christian Science Monitor
At the Summit of the Americas, Obama will likely be asked to discuss alternatives to the get-tough tactics on the drug trade - even to endorse legalization. He should point to La...
Can Colombia's Santos Unify the Americas? - Llana & Eulich, CS Monitor
As Latin America asserted its diplomatic and economic autonomy from the United States over the past decade, Colombia was consistently seen as the outlier – a lackey of the ...
Time for Obama to Reconsider America's Drug War - The Observer
This week, at a summit in Colombia, the president has a chance to show he understands there has to be a political solution....
Colombia Needs U.S. Anti-Insurgency Aid - Michael O'Hanlon, Bloomberg
There are signs that violence is on the gradual increase again. The insurgents have learned from their reverses, a regrouping that began in Uribe’s tenure, and adopted more e...
Can Colombia's Santos Solve the Cuba Conundrum? - Tim Padgett, Time
Santos' Cuba conundrum, in fact, revolved around the question of how strongly linked the Summit of the Americas is to the OAS and its Inter-American Democratic Charter. The chart...
FARC's Insufficient Olive Branch to Bogota - The Economist
Kidnapping is hardly the FARC's only means of threatening public safety....
Cocaine: The New Front Lines - John Lyons, Wall Street Journal
Colombia's success in curbing the drug trade has created more opportunities for countries hostile to the United States. What happens when coca farmers and their allies are in cha...
The End of America's Pro-Democracy Pretense - Glenn Greenwald, Salon
Why should 'American interests' determine the type of government Egypt has? That it should is simply embedded as an implicit, unstated assumption in Alterman’s advocacy. Th...
Will the Americas Drift Apart in 2012? - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Hld
Latin America's Pacific rim countries may decide their future lies in becoming a bridge between Asia and the U.S. market. And Latin America's Atlantic rim countries may decide th...
Don't Blame U.S. for Changing Latin America - Greg Weeks, Miami Herald
Conventional wisdom holds that the United States has been ignoring Latin America, thus prompting governments there to seek new trading partners, different investors, and fresh co...
Latin Leaders Forge New Bloc, Exclude U.S. - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
Latin and Caribbean leaders form a new bloc that excludes the U.S. and Canada. Some hope the CELAC will replace the Organization of American States....
Two Models for Integrating Asia - Center for Strategic and Int'l Studies
In sum, the U.S.-led model is deep and requires massive political commitments by governments to legally bind themselves and reform current regulations and practices. The China-led ...
Santos Holds the Line Against FARC - and Wins - Sabatini & Berger, CNN
Santos’s security policy, built on his predecessors’ Andrés Pastrana and Álvaro Uribe, has put the defeat of the FARC in sight - after the 1990s when the region’s longest...
Colombia Vote Comes Amid Violence, Corruption - Jim Wyss, Miami H'ld
Colombia hopes municipal elections this Sunday will help burnish its international image, but violence and corruption hound the race....
Colombia Model for Afghanistan - Wolfowitz & O'Hanlon, Foreign Policy
Many analysts have noted that the surge strategy in Afghanistan needs to be fundamentally different from that in Iraq. It is not an accident but rather a product of geography ...
Latin America Deserves Attention - Jaime Daremblum, Weekly Standard
At a time when Washington is (understandably) consumed by disputes over how to boost employment and slash the federal budget deficit, all foreign policy issues are receiving shor...
The Impact of Colombia Free Trade - Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Human rights flaws sit heavily on Colombia’s reputation. As COHA Guest Scholar Robert Works has noted elsewhere, the present Santos administration would be wise to launch a m...
Is Venezuela a Narco-State? - Joel Hirst, Fox News
Venezuela has taken the next step in a long series of steps toward being publically labeled an international pariah....
Colombia's Spreading Scandal - Los Angeles Times
The U.S. provided nearly $6 billion as part of Plan Colombia, an anti-narcotics and counterinsurgency program. But did the money also pay for human rights abuses?...
Colombian Politics Remains a Deadly Profession - Jim Wyss, Miami Herald
As Colombia heads toward key elections in October, powerful new criminal gangs and left-wing guerrillas are putting their imprint on the race - by killing people....
FARC Keeps Terrorizing Colombia - John Otis, Time
Over the past three decades, the Colombian town of Toribío has suffered more than 600 attacks by Marxist insurgents, earning it the nickname "Toribistan" as a comparison wit...
As Washington Dithers, Europe Races Ahead on Trade - Washington Post
The Republicans have a valid complaint when they say that this entire mess could have been avoided if President Obama had long ago embraced the three trade agreements, which were...
Drug War: One Cartel Falls, Another Rises - William Rempel, LA Times
The crushing of Colombia's powerful Cali cartel was a triumph, but it left a power vacuum that Mexico's brutal drug lords were only too willing to fill....
Will U.S. Welch on Colombia Free Trade? - Tim Padgett, Time
Today, June 15, marks Colombia's deadline to pass Washington's free-trade test, and it made the grade. To assuage well-founded U.S. concerns about workers' rights and anti-labor...
Rick Santorum's Venezuelan Delirium - Daniel Larison, Eunomia
Two years after Santorum made these dire warnings of Venezuelan military build-up, Chavez had to back down from his saber-rattling against Colombia in the recognition that Venezuel...
Is it Time to End the Global War on Drugs? - Ishaan Tharoor, Global Spin
The global war against drugs is fought seemingly every day in the jungles of Colombia and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, the inner cities of the U.S. and the trafficking corrid...
The Most Entrepreneur-Friendly Nations - World Public Opinion
Indonesia, the USA, Canada, India, and Australia are among the countries with the best cultures in the world for people to start a new business, while Colombia, Egypt, Turkey, Ital...
Colombia's Very, Very Wet 11 Months - John Otis, Time
Amid 11 months of nearly nonstop rain, dykes have burst and rivers have topped their banks, inundating communities, cattle ranches, and croplands in 28 of Colombia's 32 departments...
Washington Needs Bipartisan Support for Free Trade - Washington Post
If the president can take the heat from his party's labor union base, Republican leaders should be able to stand down their conservative followers....
Why American Workers Need U.S.-Colombia Trade - Sen. Max Baucus, FP
Done right, trade bills are jobs bills. Nowhere is this truer for American workers than with the pending U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA). Colombia is not only a strat...
Is China Muscling Into America's Backyard? - Federico Delgado, RCW
The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming! Or so declare a plethora of reports covering the burgeoning presence of China in Latin America. Nowadays it is safe to say the Chine...
Is Obama Losing Colombia to Chavez? - Jackson Diehl, Washington Post
Why isn't Obama fighting Colombia’s dirty deal with Chavez?...
Move Forward on Colombia Free Trade - Miami Herald
The United States and Colombia have come to a welcome and long overdue agreement to advance the stalled free trade deal between the two countries. What this means is that the years...
Colombia's Santos Pivots Toward China - Sebastian Castaneda, WPR
A number of recent overtures by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos toward China have caused concern in Washington and put pressure on Congress to finally pass the free trade ag...
Latin America - No Drama, Obama - Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Washington Post
U.S. presidents should always pick the wrong time to go to Latin America -- i.e., times when something dramatic happening on the other side of the planet concentrates their attent...
Obama's 'New Model' of U.S.-Latin Ties - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami H'ld
I am afraid that, barring concrete mechanisms to maintain White House attention on the region - be it annual summits, or a high-level special envoy, or anything else, we won't see...
In Latin America, Obama's High Job Approval Fading - Gallup
Ratings down in three nations Obama will visit on his five-day tour....
Obama Must Prioritize Central America - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami H'ld
Obama's expected announcement of new aid to help Central America combat criminal organizations will be a welcome development, but it will be a Band-Aid approach that won't do much ...
Time for Colombia to Think Big - Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Colombia is on the right track on virtually every front, but it may be time for the country to think more ambitiously - and move to the next level....
More American Trade Follies - New York Times
Some powerful members of Congress, from both parties, seem more concerned about politics and narrow parochial interests....
An Odd Stance Toward Egypt, Colombia - Robert Kagan, Washington Post
Why doesn't the U.S. ratify a free trade deal with Colombia?...
Property Rights Could End Colombia's Guerrilla War - John Otis, Time
Without land titles, poor Colombian farmers have no access to credit to buy seeds and fertilizer and improve their standard of living....
Losing Out in Latin America - Washington Post
At last, the Obama administration has cut a deal with South Korea, paving the way for congressional approval of a long-stalled free-trade agreement with that crucial Asia...
About Colombia
- Republic of Colombia
- Population: 45,644,023 (28th)
- Area Size: 440,831 sq mi (26th)
- GDP: $396 billion (29th)
- Currency: Peso (COP)
- Official Language: Spanish
- Capital City: Bogota
- Largest City: Bogota
Colombia Prosperity Rank: 61 |
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