Colombia Accuses Cos. of Illegal Imports
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The Colombian government has filed a lawsuit accusing Pernod Ricard SA, Diageo PLC and Seagram Export Sales Co. of illegally importing spirits via Colombian companies that launder drug money.
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Human rights campaigners outraged at Foreign Office minister Kim Howells' visit to Colombia
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Colombia&#039;s coca crop increased by 8 percent last year despite a U.S.-backed eradication campaign that was the largest in history, U.N. drug officials said Tuesday.
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The State Department is accusing Cuba of training Colombian rebels and says it is troubled by a large presence of Cuban personnel in Venezuela, whose president, Hugo Chavez, is a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia will require banksand money changers to report all international transfers ofmore than $200 starting next year to help combat drug moneylaundering and "narco terrorists" and control the strength ofthe peso.
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President Alvaro Uribe&#039;s government is lobbying to restrict a U.N. agency that has been the most trusted monitor of human rights violations in Colombia, according to foreign diplomats and rights activists.
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Venezuela recalled its ambassador to Colombia after accusing the neighboring country Thursday of sending police to capture a Colombian rebel on Venezuelan soil and bribing local authorities to help.
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By FRANK BAJAK  BOGOTA, Colombia - A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias.
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Colombia, locked in a 40-year war fueled by the drug trade, has made gains in restoring order and economic growth but needs more international help to secure
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Critics say President Alvaro Uribe's government is manipulating statistics to make Colombia appear safer than it is, casting doubt on achievements that have made him popular both at home and with the U.S. government.
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A recently declassified cable from the U.S. embassy in Colombia in 1979 indicates that Colombia's military created a paramilitary group linked to human rights abuses.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 28 -- President ÃÂlvaro Uribe on Thursday accused Colombia's largest rebel group of killing 11 civilian hostages, just hours after the guerrillas implied that a botched military rescue operation was to blame for the deaths.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombiaâs main rebel group on Monday criticized a government proposal to swap jailed guerrillas for kidnapped politicians, soldiers and three American contractors, saying any deal should allow its freed comrades to return to the
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A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias.
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President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela.
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By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian police confiscated$600,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency from a Medellin printingshop, the first time authorities have caught anyone using aprinting press to duplicate the new, hard to copy, $20 bill.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President Alvaro   Uribe's U.S.-backed plan to disband right-wing militias has   been hit by charges he is too easy on paramilitaries and that   drug smugglers are posing as fighters to win short jail terms.