Invited paper to be presented to the “Encuentro Nacional de comunidades Campesinas, Afrodescendientes e Indigenas por la Tierra y la Paz de Colombia” “El dialogo es la Ruta” 12 al 15 de agosto 2011 Barrancabermeja – Colombia Introduction We live in a time of great destruction and grand economic opportunities... » read this article

The great Orinoco River flows in a region shared by Venezuela and Colombia and along the watershed of the river lies Los Llanos, grasslands as far as the eye can behold. The unresticted openness and wild beauty of the plains have attracted humans for thousands of years, first with nomadic... » read this article

Banana giant Chiquita Brands International paid off paramilitary and guerilla factions inside Colombia and benefited handsomely from these secret deals with Colombian death squads. George Washington University published a series of papers released by the Justice Department, and the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act, detailing Chiquita’s cover-up of payments... » read this article

Editor's Comment: There are some on the revolutionary left who tend toward a knee-jerk prejudgement of President Chávez for his political negotiations with Colombia's right-wing president, Juan Manuel Santos. We encourage them and others to read this analysis very carefully. Whatever else he might be wrongly accused of, Chávez is no fool and his... » read this article

Editorial Comment: Venezuela's detention and deportation of Joaquín Pérez Becerra to Colombia is regrettable to say the least. For years, President Chávez has been accused by Colombia, Washington and the US and European corporate media for collaborating with the FARC and thus accused of, "state sponsored terrorism." Chávez says that... » read this article

Mérida, April 25th 2011 – At the request of the Colombian government, the Venezuelan government has arrested and says it will soon deport a supposed ex-FARC leader and alternative journalist, Joaquin Perez Becerra, despite opposition to the deportation from many groups on the Venezuelan left. The Venezuelan government said in a... » read this article

On a continent which has been moving away from U.S. imperial dominance, Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe was an exception. In stark opposition to defiant leaders like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, Uribe emerged as Washington’s closest ally in Latin America, making Colombia the main U.S.... » read this article

State Department documents published by Wikileaks evidence Washington's plans to "contain" Venezuela's influence in the region and increase efforts to provoke regime change A substantial portion of the more than 1600 State Department documents Wikileaks has published during the past two weeks refer to the ongoing efforts of US diplomacy... » read this article

Existing international economic institutions and relations operate in ways detrimental to third world development. That is why eight Latin American and Caribbean countries—led by Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia—are working to build the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a regional initiative designed to promote new, nonmarket-shaped structures and patterns of... » read this article

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has urged people to evacuate a hillside neighbourhood near Medellin, after a landslide buried around 50 houses. More than 30 bodies have been recovered since the landslide in Bello on Sunday, about a third of them children. More than 80 people are still missing, but... » read this article

December 7, 2010 Rescuers say they have recovered 24 bodies following a landslide near the Colombian city of Medellin. More than 100 people are still missing and feared dead after a hillside collapsed on Sunday, following the heaviest rains in the country for decades. Local residents initially used their bare... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Peacemaker and Senator Piedad Córdoba was removed from office on September 27 and blocked from public office for 18 years by the new Manuel Santos regime in Bogota. This attack on Senadora Córdoba is a testament to her leadership and heroism and to Colombia's rejection of transparency, justice and even... » read this article

October 6, 2010 Liberal Senator Piedad Córdoba, who was recently removed from her post and barred from holding public office by Colombia’s Inspector General, denies alleged mentions in the computer of deceased FARC leader, ‘Raúl Reyes’. Some of the evidence against her is incriminating. ¿Is it Justice or political persecution?... » read this article

Editor's Note: This 45 minute Al Jazeera film documentary shows how the Alvaro Uribe regime and transnational corporations supported the massacres of thousands of Colombians by the AUC paramilitaries. When Uribe left office he designated Juan Manuel Santos as his successor. Santos, now president, was Uribe's Defense Minister and allied the Colombian Army with the paramilitary... » read this article

US urges 'appropriate steps' on Colombia military accord Agence Presse France August 20, 2010 The United States urged Colombia's new government Wednesday to take "appropriate steps" to sustain its relations with Washington after a key bilateral military accord was declared unconstitutional. State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said the United States... » read this article

A Colombian court has declared as unconstitutional a deal which gives US troops access to its military bases. The constitutional court ruled the 2009 accord should be redrafted as an international treaty and sent to Colombia's Congress for approval. The deal allows the US to use seven bases to help... » read this article

Forrest Hylton: Is Colombia's new leader stepping back from U.S. plan to isolate Chavez?   Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Paul Jay in Washington. In Colombia, the new president, Juan Manuel Santos, has done something that seems quite unexpected: he made peace... » read this article

If you want to understand what’s behind the recent tension between Colombia and Venezuela, think “smokescreen,” and then go back several months to some sick children in the Department of Meta, just south of Bogota. The children fell ill after drinking from a local stream, a stream contaminated by the... » read this article

Is President Álvaro Uribe trying to prevent his successor from making peace with Venezuela? When Luis Alfonso Hoyos walked into a regional meeting on Thursday, July 22, he would have done well to remember that -- ever since U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the alleged evidence of weapons... » read this article

Many Axis of Logic readers have probably heard about the guerrillas and paramilitary bands in Colombia. Drug running, murder of civilians and labor leaders, terror of the civilian population and more recently the “parapolitics” scandal are the daily bread in large swathes of Colombia. Members of the Senate and Congress... » read this article