Colombia and Venezuela – Joining Forces
When 12 Colombian soldiers were killed by FARC insurgents a stone’s throw away from the northern border with Venezuela, the consequences included military cooperation that reinforces the political,...
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Colombia Tightening Laws Against Acid Attacks
Nobody will ever know if Jhon Jairo Echenique decided to take his own life out of remorse, fear or mental illness. But the suicide followed his arrest for the stabbing and burning with acid of his...
View ArticleColombian Informant Exposes Destabilisation Plot
The same week that a bomb attack targeted Colombia’s former interior and justice minister, Fernando Londoño, a Colombian national came forward and confessed that similar attacks were being planned...
View ArticleAssault on Colombian Trade Unions Continues Unabated
Two months after a free-trade agreement between the United States and Colombia went into effect, workers and activists are warning that U.S.-stipulated labour reforms have not been fully implemented...
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Peace in Colombia?
People in the streets and squares of the Colombian capital are breathing easier. The air is fresh with hope, in contrast to the former leaden and fearful atmosphere of eternal violence and interminable...
View ArticleHugo Chavez and Colombia’s Peace
Colombia has suffered an internal armed conflict for so many decades that it almost amounts to a “forgotten crisis” for external donors. But the president of neighbouring Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, is...
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Controversy Brews Over Climate Change Adaptation Project
An ambitious programme of infrastructure works to overcome the risks of climate change in Cartagena de Indias, a city on the Caribbean coast in northern Colombia, has generated controversy, with...
View ArticleBuilding Beaches Against the Sea
The government of this historic walled city, a bastion of tourism on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, is widening beaches and building dual carriageways on its north side to protect against the...
View ArticleOpen Pit Miners Strike in Colombia
Two weeks into an indefinite strike called by workers at Cerrejón, one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world, the company has agreed to sit down again and negotiate with Colombia’s National...
View ArticleGroup Warns of “Natural Resources Giveaway” in Latin America
Researchers have unveiled new data warning that governments in Latin America are infringing on the rights of their indigenous populations in a bid to fuel development through the extraction of natural...
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Civil Society Under Attack Around the World
In December 2011, 159 governments and major international organisations recognised the central role of civil society in development and promised to create an “enabling” operating environment for the...
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Insects, from Delicacy to Tool against Hunger
Toasted grasshoppers on sale in the Benito Juárez market in the capital of Oaxaca state, Mexico. Credit: Nsaum75 CC BY-SA 3.0The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s recommendation to consider using...
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Key Land Reform Accord in Colombia’s Peace Talks
Land reform was the first item on the agenda of Colombia’s peace talks. Credit: Constanza Vieira/IPS Colombian government and guerrilla delegates have announced an agreement on the question of land...
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When the Train Passes, But Never Arrives
José “Goyo” Hernández has never been given a mask to keep him from breathing in the coal dust blowing off the 13 trains that pass daily through this village in the municipality of Zona Bananera in the...
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Colombia, the United States, and Montesquieu
The United States and Colombia are the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas. Both have good reasons: Colombia has witnessed the longest lasting violence in any contemporary country: from 1949,...
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Documenting Invasive Species on Colombia’s Plains
Biologist Juliana Cárdenas gathers samples of the invasive species West Indian foxtail along the road between the towns of Orocué and Yopal, in the Colombian department of Casanare,.during the Travesía...
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Santos Says Colombia Doesn’t Need U.N. Human Rights Office
Navi Pillay at a press conference in the Palais des Nations, Geneva. Credit: UN Photo/Jean-Marc FerreThe Colombian army killed Marta Díaz’s son Douglas in 2006, dressed him in combat fatigues and...
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Colombian Town Says ‘No’ to Gold Mine
AngloGold Ashanti Colombia billboard on the road from Ibagué, capital of Tolima, to Cajamarca: “Together we build the future: La Colosa means progress for Colombia in harmony with the environment and...
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Tapping Rural Culture for Development Potential
Local campesino Omar Caicedo shows IFAD president Kanayo Nwanze the fruits of his land, in Colombia’s biodiverse Pacific coastal region. Credit: Juan Manuel Barrero/IPS“I was a hunter. I killed many...
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Q&A: “When the String of the Inequality Gap Snaps, You Have Political Crisis”
IFAD president Kanayo Nwanze, interviewed by IPS at the end of his Aug. 2-8, 2013 visit to Peru and Colombia. Credit: Juan Manuel Barrero/IPS “There is no development without peace. It should be...
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