News Links tagged {Colombia} "U.S. Policy"
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Friday, January 15, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | U.S. imposes new sanctions on Colombian drug network |
| Author/Source: | David Lawder Reuters |
| Brief: | The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control added Ramon Quintero Sancemente, along with 19 other individuals and 16 entities in his organization, to its list of specially designated narcotics traffickers |
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Secretario de Estado adjunto visita Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Nuevo Herald |
| Brief: | El secretario de Estado adjunto de Estados Unidos, James Steinberg, se reunio el martes con el presidente Alvaro Uribe, en la primera jornada de una discreta visita de dos dias a Colombia |
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Audio: EE.UU. ratifico apoyo a politica de Seguridad Democratica |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | El Subsecretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, James Steinberg, afirmo este martes que la relacion entre Colombia y su pais es una "gran alianza" |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | FARC International Links, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | "El Qaeda" is nothing new |
| Author/Source: | Joshua Keating Foreign Policy |
| Brief: | Given FARC's dual status as a political militia and a criminal enterprise and its alleged murky connections to government supporters, it's not hard to tie it within a few degrees of separation to almost any nefarious global enterprise |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Relacion entre Colombia y E.U. constituye una 'gran alianza': Subsecretario de Estado |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | James Steinberg se reunio esta manana con el presidente Álvaro Uribe en la finca El Uberrimo |
Monday, January 11, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Deputy Secretary's Travel to Colombia and Peru January 11-14 |
| Author/Source: | U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | Deputy Secretary Steinberg arrives in Colombia Monday evening and will meet with Colombian President Uribe and senior Colombian government officials the following day to discuss the current state of the U.S.-Colombia bilateral relationship |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Uribe pedira hoy a los congresistas de EEUU que no continuen aplazando la aprobacion de un TLC con Colombia - Yahoo! Noticias |
| Author/Source: | Europa Press Yahoo! |
| Brief: | El presidente colombiano, Álvaro Uribe, pedira este sabado a un grupo de congresistas de Estados Unidos que no continuen aplazando la aprobacion de un Tratado de Libre Comercio |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy, Uribe Government Security Policies |
| Title: | Ser 'chivato' en Colombia se convierte en un negocio redondo |
| Author/Source: | Salud Hernandez-Mora El Mundo (Spain) |
| Brief: | Julio Cesar Rivera, un antiguo guerrillero ecuatoriano, vive feliz en Estados Unidos, con toda su familia. Pero que nadie le busque bajo esa identidad, porque los norteamericanos le proporcionaron una nueva |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Rueda de prensa del presidente Álvaro Uribe Velez y del representante a la Camara de EU, Eliot Engel al termino de la reunion en Cordoba |
| Author/Source: | Presidencia De Colombia |
| Brief: | Cuando venia camino a la finca del Presidente, tras el aterrizaje del avion y estabamos a bordo del bus, pensaba que estabamos todos juntos, los colombianos y los americanos en el mismo bus, sentados juntos, intercambiando conversaciones |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Title: | El acuerdo con Colombia permite seguir la lucha contra los narcos, dice un congresista de EE.UU. |
| Author/Source: | EFE Yahoo! |
| Brief: | Asi lo aseguro durante una visita a la base naval "ARC Bolivar" de Cartagena, en la que estuvo en compania de otros tres congresistas de Estados Unidos |
| Location: | Colombia, Ecuador |
| Category: | U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Relations with Ecuador, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | El delator de Raul Reyes reside en EE.UU. |
| Author/Source: | El Comercio (Ecuador) |
| Brief: | Segun diario El Tiempo, de Bogota, el ecuatoriano, que habria dado las coordenadas del campamento de Reyes recibio USD 1,2 millones por la informacion y ahora vive con su familia en Estados Unidos |
Friday, January 8, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Justice and Peace Process, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Former Colombian paramilitary leader gets 20 years |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Miami Herald |
| Brief: | Before his arrest, authorities say Sanchez-Jimenez was the top lieutenant to co-defendant Carlos Mario Jimenez-Naranjo, the leader of the Bloque Central Bolivar, part of the AUC |
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia extradites financial conman to U.S. |
| Author/Source: | Hugh Bronstein Reuters |
| Brief: | Colombia on Tuesday sent the country's best-known financial swindler, whose pyramid schemes sparked riots by victims, to the United States to face charges he laundered millions of dollars |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | 'Colombian Madoff' is extradited to US |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse |
| Brief: | David Murcia, who is accused of swindling investors out of a staggering 920 million dollars, arrived here Tuesday from Bogota in an aircraft belonging to the US Drug Enforcement Administration |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Free Trade, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Presidente se reunira con congresistas de E.U. para agilizar la ratificacion del TLC |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La delegacion la completan los representantes democratas Eliot Engel (Nueva York), Lynn Woolsey (California), Shelley Berkley (Nevada) y la republicana Marsha Blackburn |
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Corruption, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Corruption, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Colombia extradites alleged pyramid scammer to US |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Seattle Times |
| Brief: | A man convicted of bilking Colombians out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a pyramid scheme has been extradited to the United States. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Colombia Category: | Extraditions, Narcotrafficking, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Extraditado a EE.UU David Murcia |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | David Murcia Guzman debera responder ante la justicia de ese pais por el delito de lavado de activos |