A summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus to set Amazon priorities on climate change is fizzling after the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela bailed out.

A Colombian court has convicted a retired army general of murder and sentenced him to 40 years in prison for his role in a notorious 1997 massacre by far-right militias.

The 3rd China-Latin America Business Summit was inaugurated Wednesday in Bogota, with over 700 entrepreneurs from China and Latin America participating in the two-day meeting.

Colombia's government said Thursday Venezuelan soldiers had blown up two small pedestrian bridges that stretch across their border in the latest incident to stoke a diplomatic dispute between the Andean neighbors.

Tuesday, 24 November 2009, 12:43 pm Opinion: Global Research by Rick Rozoff , Global Research , Stop NATO There is no way of overestimating the challenge that the emergence of ALBA and the overall reawakening of Latin America pose to the role that the U.S. arrogates to itself as lord of the entire Western Hemisphere.

Reporting from Caracas, Venezuela - Reacting to a deal that gives the Pentagon use of seven bases in Colombia for flights to combat drug trafficking and insurgency, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said this month that his country should prepare for war with its neighbor.

After bridge explosions, Venezuela's Hugo ChA vez and Colombia's Alvaro Uribe agree on one thing: current conflict won't be resolved without outside mediation.

The Colombian government has authorized the extradition to the United States of David Murcia Guzman and his chief associate, both accused of running a massive pyramid scheme that illegally raised more than us$2 billion.

Venezuelan police captured a leader of a Colombia-linked paramilitary force, the interior minister announced Saturday amid sky-high military tensions between the South American neighbors.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is calling a meeting of eight Amazon countries next week to forge a common stand ahead of next month's key climate talks, officials said Friday.

The EMF recognises the importance of the Justice For Colombia Campaign and has sent a letter to MEPs calling for their support against the signing of an EU-Colombia FTA.

A report by Human Rights Watch paints President Ral Castro's regime in Cuba as little more than a continuation of his brother's `abusive laws and institutions.' Although the report on Raul Castro emphasized that ``there is no question the Cuban government bears full and exclusive responsibility for the abuses,'' it also proposed Washington lift the ...

The Afghan press has an interesting dispatch on burgeoning relations between Afghanistan and Colombia: Jawad seeks Colombia's support on terror, narcotics By Lalit K Jha WASHINGTON, Nov 3 - Afghan Ambassador to the US Said T Jawad on Tuesday met the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez to expand security and development cooperation between the ...

TENSIONS mounted between rival South American nations Venezuela and Colombia on Tuesday as Caracas accused Bogota of detaining four of its soldiers in international waters.

Gasoline smugglers fill tanks with gas on the Colombian side of the border with Venezuela on Wednesday.

The number of cases of torture attributed to the armed forces in Colombia increased 80 percent from 2003 to 2008, in a context of near total impunity for such crimes.

If South American neighbors Venezuela and Colombia are about to go to war, you would never guess it on the "Simon Bolivar" bridge.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez plays with children during his weekly broadcast Alo, Presidente in Portuguesa, about 350km west of Caracas Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday urged his military leaders to prepare "for war" and to ready citizens to "defend the homeland" as tensions mount over fractious ties with neighbouring Colombia.

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia - Nine Colombian army soldiers were killed in a bloody confrontation with leftist guerrillas early Tuesday along a well-known transit corridor in southwestern Colombia frequented by drug traffickers and insurgents.

Nine Colombian soldiers were killed when their post was attacked by Marxist FARC guerrillas in a southwestern part of the country used as a cocaine smuggling corridor by the rebels, officials said on Tuesday.