Tag: Colombia

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, left, shakes hands with with Rodrigo Londono, top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, after signing a revised peace pact at Colon Theater in Bogota, Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

National Security

Colombia signs peace deal with rebel group

Paige Winfield Cunningham · November 24, 2016 5:25 pm

The war has resulted in the deaths of 220,000 people and left millions of residents displaced. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)

Colombia, rebels will sign truce to end 50-year war

Anna Giaritelli · November 23, 2016 12:09 am

Ivan Marquez, chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, from left, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, and Humberto de La Calle, head of Colombia's government peace negotiation team, applaud after the signing of the latest text of the peace accord between the two sides in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Colombia, rebel group put final touches on historic peace deal

Anna Giaritelli · November 16, 2016 2:37 am

Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a felon and Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump a traitor. Unfortunately for America, there is plenty of basis for the former charge and less but still disturbing evidence for the latter. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Barone: The ugliest election

Michael Barone · October 22, 2016 12:00 pm

Britain and Colombia have different political cultures and traditions, but examination of the referendum results shows similar patterns in both countries, one similar to the partisan divisions that have developed in American politics since the 1990s. (AP Photo)

Despite Trump, demotic protest politics doesn’t always fail

Michael Barone · October 18, 2016 6:02 pm

Washington Secrets

Clinton Foundation attacks reporter in failed bid to kill critical story

Paul Bedard · October 18, 2016 5:55 pm

Obama's policy of benign neglect may be paying unexpected dividends by forcing Latin America to be more assertive. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

The only place where ‘leading from behind’ has worked

Alvaro Vargas Llosa · October 12, 2016 7:00 am

President Obama and top administration officials celebrated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Friday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

US honors Colombian president for Nobel Peace Prize

Anna Giaritelli · October 8, 2016 12:16 am

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met with former President Alvaro Uribe on Wednesday to discuss how to work out their differences after the public rejected a referendum on Sunday that would have concluded a peace deal with FARC. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

Colombian president and opposition leader vow to find common ground on truce

Anna Giaritelli · October 6, 2016 12:16 am

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos votes in a referendum to decide whether or not to support the peace deal he signed with rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in Bogota, Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Beltway Confidential

Latin American voters spurn the left

Michael Barone · October 4, 2016 2:39 pm

The State Department, led by Secretary of State John Kerry (above), on Monday rejected the prediction that Colombia will return to a state of war between the government and FARC rebels, now that millions of Colombian voters have rejected a peace deal the U.S. helped broker. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

State Dept. downplays Colombia’s rejection of US-brokered peace deal

Pete Kasperowicz · October 3, 2016 7:07 pm

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia commander Rodrigo "Timochenko" Londono signed a peace treaty Monday ending the brutal half-century of war between the government and rebel group. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombia, FARC sign truce ending 52-year war

Anna Giaritelli · September 26, 2016 10:50 pm