Colombia claims that two Venezuelan military aircraft violated sovereign airspace on Saturday and said on Monday that it would launch a formal protest.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos made a "serious mistake" when he characterized Venezuela's socialist "Bolivarian revolution" as self-destructing, embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro charged on Wednesday.
Escalating tension with their neighboring nation of Colombia, Venezuela has extended their partial border shutdown and sent in another 3,000 troops to the area.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Sunday called on his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, to enter into discussions about how the nations can resolve their ongoing border dispute.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is willing to meet his Venezuelan counterpart and discuss the border crisis only if President Nicolás Maduro establishes a "humanitarian corridor," allowing some 2,000 Colombian children to continue attending school despite the shutdown of border crossings.
Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro claimed on Monday that his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, had sanctioned a plan to assassinate him.
Maduro has extended border closures with Colombia to yet another six towns in the western state of Táchira. The towns that will experience the closures are Lobatera, San Juan de Colón, La Fría, Garcia de Hevia, Panamericana and Coloncito.
Undocumented Colombian immigrants in Venezuela were packing up their belongings and crossing into their homeland on Tuesday after Caracas intensified a crackdown along the border between the two South American nations.
Since the border crossings between Colombia and Venezuela were closed over the weekend, more than 1,000 Colombians have been deported from the neighboring socialist nation.
FARC, the Colombian Marxist guerrilla organization which has been at odds with the state since 1964, has announced that it will extend its unilateral ceasefire.
Ever since he broke with his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has aggressively used social media to keep himself relevant in the political scene of his South American nation.
Farc is trying to smooth relations with Colombia out by calling for a new unilateral ceasefire Peace talks between Colombia and the Marxist guerrilla organization FARC, which have been taking place for over two years in Havana, have been going badly.
The Colombian military has announced that Farc rebels have shot and killed three police officers who were out patrolling a stretch of highway. After this attack, Farc went on to bring down an electricity pylon, an act which cut off the power to nearly half a million people in the southern region of Caqueta
In an effort to deter violence directed at females, lawmakers in Colombia have this week passed a bill that would impose tough sentences for hate crimes against women.
The announcement that the militant left wing group will keep cooperating with peace talks came just days after dozens of their fighters were killed in an air force bombing raid in south-western Cauca province.
After 26 Farc fighters were killed in a Colombian air and ground offensive this past Thursday, the Marxist group has suspended a unilateral ceasefire which had been put in place since December 2014.
Against all likelihood, an 11-month-old infant was discovered alive, buried face-down in the mud, more than a mile from where he had been sleeping when the flash flood swept through town of Salgar, killing his family.
This past Saturday Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos announced that he would be putting a stop to the use of herbicide that has been a fundamental part of U.S.-financed attempts to kill coca crops.
The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has just authorized the extradition of Leiver Padilla Mendoza, a man wanted in Venezuela for the murder of a Caracas politician named Robert Serra.
