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

Merida, July 23rd, 2010 – Following Colombian accusations before the Organisation of American States (OAS) yesterday that Venezuela is “protecting” its guerrillas, Chavez announced that Venezuela would break off diplomatic relations with Colombia and withdraw its ambassador. Venezuelan institutions and international social organisations have expressed their support for Venezuela, while... » read this article

Caracas, July 25, 2010 - UPDATE by Eva Golinger: Venezuela will suspend all oil shipments to the US in the event of an attack After Venezuelan President Chavez revealed intelligence data yesterday during a national address indicating the imminence of an aggression against his government via Colombia with support from... » read this article

  Back in January 2010 the first reports started appearing on internet about the discovery of a mass grave about 120 miles south of Bogotá in La Macarena, in the department of Meta. Some 2000 bodies were mentioned in initial reports and the Colombian Attorney General has spoken about 25,000 “disappeared”.... » read this article

24 July 2010 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez broke off diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia Thursday over charges made by that country’s government that Caracas has sheltered Colombian guerrillas on its territory. In a histrionic presentation to the Organization of American States in Washington, DC, Colombia’s ambassador accused the Chavez government... » read this article

In the small town of La Macarena, Meta, 200 kilometers south of Bogota, one of the hottest areas of the Colombian conflict is the largest mass grave discovered in the recent history of Latin America, with a number of bodies "NN " buried without identification, which could reach 2,000, according... » read this article

President Chavez ordered maximum alert on Venezuela’s border with Colombia after the Uribe administration made grave accusations against Venezuela claiming the Chavez government harbors terrorists and terrorist training camps.   The outgoing government of Alvaro Uribe in Colombia gave a shameful presentation before member states of the Organization of American... » read this article

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Caracas, July 16, 2010 - The Ministry of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects the new attack from the outgoing President of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, in his effort to destroy Colombian-Venezuelan relations, a goal which he has undertaken with... » read this article

Editor's Commentary: Carlos Mantilla, born in 1945 in Tuluá, Colombia, is a Colombian narco-trafficker and crime boss. Mantilla operated his own organization under a cartel that shipped multi-tons of cocaine. He shipped cocaine is shipped from Colombia, Peru and other South American countries since the 1970s, primarily to Mexico for... » read this article

WAR I don’t get tired of quoting Clausewitz, who says that war is a continuation of politics by other means. The United States has failed so completely and successively in its policies that it always has the temptation of war. PEACE Venezuela doesn’t represent the slightest risk to the safety... » read this article

Juan Manuel Santos, notorious Defense Minister in the regime of outgoing President Alvaro Uribe and closely identified with high crimes against humanity “won” the recent Presidential elections in Colombia, June 2010.  The major electronic and print media CNN, FOX News, Washington Post, the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,... » read this article

Introduction The first casualty of state terror is the corruption of language, the invention of euphemisms, where words mean their opposite and slogans cover great crimes:  There is no longer a world consensus that condemns crimes against humanity.  This is because   mass murder and assassinations secure investor ‘confidence’, because Indians... » read this article

'This scandal revolves around the Colombian military, most recently under the direction of Juan Manuel Santos*, knowingly murdering civilians in cold blood and then dressing them up to look like armed guerillas in order to justify more aid from the United States. According to the UN High Commissioner for Human... » read this article

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Apparently, the corporate media doesn't consider it to be newsworthy: the confession to a Colombian prosecutor of 30,000 murders by paramilitaries who are linked to the Alvaro Uribe regime. To date, Associated Press, Reuters and their contracted media outlets remain silent on this latest news. If it had taken place... » read this article