A king’s vengeance

[caption id="attachment_4648" align="alignright" width="300"] Jordanian King Abdullah has vowed to open the gates of hell on ISIS. Photo: Chatham...

Colombia-Venezuela tension increases

[caption id="attachment_4633" align="alignright" width="251"] Leopoldo Lopez Mendoza[/caption] Ex-President Pastrana stopped from visiting imprisoned...

Obama wants $288m for Colombia

On February 2, US President Barack Obama requested $288 million USD in funding from Congress to support Colombia. These funds are part of the US...

The bulls are back

[caption id="attachment_4623" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo: Naoki Nakashima CC BY-SA 2.0[/caption] In latest chapter of ongoing saga,...

Fear in the air

[caption id="attachment_4619" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo: Santiago Narayana CC BY-SA 3.0[/caption] Passenger scare as Vivacolombia plane...

Hurtado and Uribe to be investigated

On January 31, Maria del Pilar Hurtado, the former head of Colombia’s ex-intelligence agency DAS, returned to Colombia from exile in Panama to face...

FARC plan to transform into political movement after conflict

The latest round of the FARC-Colombian government peace talks kicked off in Havana on February 2, with the guerrilla delegation tabling a number of...

Plan for the nation

Santos tables National Development Plan that seeks to tackle rural poverty, close rich-poor divide, invest millions in housing and schools and fund...

Santos blasted over false positives

[caption id="attachment_4600" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Colombian victims and citizens protesting because of Colombia’s so-called “false...

The peso’s plunge

[caption id="attachment_4605" align="alignright" width="300"] USD - Peso in the past year. Graph: xe.com[/caption] The Bogota Post talks to the...