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Colombia and the region are paying the price for slow implementation of the 2016 peace accord, but a turnaround is still ...
While Colombia had managed to tame the worst excesses of organized crime within its borders—steadily lowering the murder rate ...
Colombia experienced a wave of violence in the southwestern part of the country, where in the morning, there were 24 separate ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
With a change of defense minister Wednesday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos broke both strategically and personally with the military strategy of the “Democratic Security” policy that was ...
The Colombian government is drawing up a new cyber defense strategy to deal with the growing rate of cyber attacks, as the Andean country continues to use information technology to overhaul its ...
Authorities in Cali, Colombia have attributed a decrease in homicides to a combination of citizen security measures and increased presence of security forces, highlighting effective strategies that ...
However, the investigation by the books authors uncovered several sources who identified secret joint security operations carried out while the journalists were being held hostage. Colombia’s special ...
"Beyond official advertisements of the strategy and occasional ... Still, it's unlikely that the U.S. is complaining about Colombia as new security competition in Latin America.
The crop-substitution strategy is set out ... caught between the security forces and the drug gangs, are among the most vulnerable to it. Nowhere is Colombia’s many-sided drug war more intense ...
In an effort to combat the drug trade, Colombia has historically deployed security forces to fumigate ... experiments with a new anti-narcotics strategy, the president will face pressure, both ...