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JUAN MANUEL SANTOS
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has paid tribute to the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, hailing his work on behalf of his country's poor and his support of Colombia's peace process.
Colombia's leftist Farc rebels have confirmed they are holding two captured police officers, but ignored government charges that it was a violation of human rights.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has put the country's Marxist Farc rebels on warning that they have until November 2013 to strike a peace deal under recently opened talks.
The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Guatemala have all called for a global debate of anti-narcotics laws at the UN, raising new questions about the wisdom of the, US-led "war on drugs".
One of Colombia's most wanted drug traffickers has been captured in Venezuela with the help of Caracas as well as British and US intelligence agencies, says Colombia's president.
President Juan Manuel Santos has rejected a proposal by Colombia's main leftist rebel movement to observe a cease-fire during peace talks in Norway.
Colombia's government is seeking peace with the country's biggest rebel group, the Farc, to end five decades of war, says President Juan Manuel Santos.
A French journalist freed by leftist rebels on Wednesday says he is not embittered, but he has criticised the rebels for using his capture for propaganda purposes.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has urged leftist guerrillas to release a French journalist "as soon as possible", hours after the rebels confirmed that they were holding him.
Colombia's ex-president Alvaro Uribe is fuming about the direction his successor is taking.And he's letting everyone know tweet-by-tweet.
A Venezuelan drug kingpin who Colombia has decided send back home rather than to the US says that he has proof that his country’s rulers are involved in cocaine trafficking.
Heavy rains have left hundreds dead in Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, caused millions of dollars in damages and forced a temporary closure of the Panama Canal, say officials.
Colombian rescue officials say they have recovered 37 bodies from a massive weekend landslide, with President Juan Manuel Santos having declared a local state of emergency.
Emergency crews have been clawing through huge piles of mud in a desperate bid to rescue more than 100 people missing in a landslide that has claimed at least 23 lives in Colombia.
At least 50 people are missing in Colombia after heavy rains caused a landslide in the northwest of the Andean nation, say relief organisations.
