Give Colombia’s Long-Overdue Peace a Chance
Continued dissatisfaction with the Colombian peace process may impact the final outcome of next year’s presidential elections. The stumbling talks may also come to represent yet another missed opportunity to end decades of conflict between the state and FARC rebels, or so warns Robert Valencia. By Robert Valencia for World Policy Institute In More...
Big Labour Was Bigtime Wrong On Trade With Colombia
Big Labour worked hard to halt the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, claiming it threatened our economy and our workers. But a year since its passage, the pact has surpassed all expectations. Where’s the More...
War and Peace in Colombia and Venezuela
By Clara Nieto In this column for IPS, Clara Nieto, a former Colombian ambassador to the United Nations, discusses the intersection between Colombia’s peace talks and post-Chávez Venezuela. BOGOTA (IPS) – More...
Conscience objections urged in face of Colombian gay unions
(CNA/EWTN News).- Officials from the Bishops’ Conference of Colombia have urged Catholics to adhere to Church teaching in the face of potential same-sex unions and a movement towards a secular nation. Father Pedro More...
Colombia Leads the World in Displacement Due to Conflict and Organized Crime
Colombia continues to have the world’s largest internally displaced population, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), with hundreds of thousands displaced in 2012 by the country’s More...
The observations of Former President Lleras in 1946 seem relevant today
“La Violencia” was a decade of fierce political violence that began in 1946 and unleashed much lawlessness and bloodshed. By 1960, it had claimed 200,000 lives. In March 1946, just prior to the presidential More...
Humanitarian action in Colombia
In Colombia, 2012 saw the continuance of an armed conflict that began almost half a century ago, while other forms of violence intensified. The year was also marked by hopes for a resolution of the conflict between More...
Colombian ex-president under investigation for loss to Nicaragua
Colombia’s congress on Wednesday opened an investigation against ex-presidents Alvaro Uribe and Andres Pastrana for their alleged responsibility in losing Caribbean waters to Nicaragua. Constantino Rodriguez, More...
Making peace in Colombia
They say that a bad agreement is better than a good fight. But not, it seems, in Bogotá. Last September, President Juan Manuel Santos launched a formal peace process with Colombia’s Farc guerrillas. This sparked More...
Can Northern Ireland act as a template for Colombia?
Fifteen years on from the Good Friday Agreement, there may be scepticism at home about the weaknesses of the Stormont assembly and executive. But in some other parts of the world Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace More...
