For Colombia, last week supposed to be the week of peace. It was anything but. Five Colombian soliders were killed by the FARC terrorist group, just a few days after peace talks were launched in Oslo. The FARC have no interest in peace. If it did, it would lay down arms and agree to [...]
Over on Facebook recently I posted the following comment to see what reaction it would receive from interested FB connections:
Starting to wonder if Colombia was forced to negotiate with the FARC to secure the FTA from the Obama Administration. These FARC talks with Cuba make no sense. Bad for Colombia and regional matters.
When [...]
Prostitutegate aside, there were other, more pressing things that happened at the Summit of the Americas two weeks ago. We can tinker with a lot of things. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, for example, sideswipe of U.S.-Cuba policy: “The isolation, the embargo, the indifference, and looking the other way, have shown their ineffectiveness” and the policy [...]
Just a few years ago, you could not get people in this town to focus on the pockets of instability throughout the Western Hemisphere. It is not top-ranked news but, as of late, it has become the issue du jour in some wonk circles. Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan still dominate the headlines and think tank [...]
Three years after Colombia’s successful raid of a terrorist camp in Ecuador, a European think tank has announced that it will release a report of the contents of a computer seized during the operation that belonged to a FARC commander, Raul Reyes. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies announcement the publication:
“provides unique insights [...]
Earlier this week, Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said, yet again, that Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has been helpful in the war against the FARC terrorist group.
“President Chavez has said: ‘If you find a FARC camp in Venezuela, give me the coordinates and [...]
Transparency International released its 2010 corruption index. It ranks Communist Cuba – the most corrupt government in the entire Western Hemisphere – in the same bucket with Colombia and less corrupt than democratic Honduras or Mexico. This is not the first time TI investigators do this. They seem to have a soft spot for [...]
That I know of, witchcraft is not a crime in Colombia, but this is not about hexing or potions.
An international arms smuggler needs to concern him or herself with numerous things, the most important of which is not getting caught.
A disinterested middleman, false paperwork, no paperwork, or untraceable funds come to mind. [...]
Colombian officials announced last week that they had arrested suspected Hezbollah operatives in Colombia. The capture of the three potential terrorists was part of an international anti-drug and anti-money laundering operation that had been ongoing for about two years called Operation Titan. According to various news sources it was the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) [...]
A leading, yet elusive figure of El Salvador’s primary political opposition party has come under legal and political scrutiny in his country for allegedly offering to sell weapons and arrange business deals with Latin America’s largest home-grown terrorist organization, the Colombian FARC-People’s Army. If this link is confirmed, the impact of this finding goes well beyond [...]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury yesterday issued a press release announcing the designation of two Venezuelan-based supporters of the terrorist group Hizballah. The Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that “[i]t is extremely troubling to see the Government of Venezuela employing and providing safe harbor to Hizballah facilitators [...]
If Mexico allowed al-Qaeda to build camps on the Mexico-side of the U.S.-Mexico border, would Mexico really expect the U.S. to sit idly by and do nothing? Why should Colombia act any differently when dealing with the FARC?
An unreasonable reliance on multilateralism to advance the national interest is a vice. And, like [...]
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