April 23, 2008 The New York Times
	Pelosi Ties Colombia Deal to New Growth Bill -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration and Congress need to agree on new legislation to create jobs and boost domestic economic growth before lawmakers can approve a free-trade agreement with Colombia, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday.
January 12, 2008 BBC News
	Chavez makes Colombia rebel call -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on the US and European governments to stop treating Colombian left-wing rebel groups as terrorists.
April 05, 2007 Haaretz
	Colombia seeks Israelis accused of training death squads -- Interpol issued an international arrest warrant Tuesday for three Israelis accused of training private armies of Colombian drug cartels and right-wing death squads.
September 10, 2006 Houston Chronicle
	Colombia plans to sell stake in its oil company -- In a region of leftist leaders determined to nationalize their oil industries and extract higher taxes from multinational drillers, Colombia's government is insisting on a privatization plan for its state-run oil company.
August 19, 2006 New York Times
	Colombia's coca survives costly plan by U.S. to uproot it -- The latest chapter in America's long war on drugs — a six-year, $4.7 billion effort to slash Colombia's coca crop — has left the price, quality and availability of cocaine on American streets virtually unchanged.
August 10, 2006 Infoshop News
	World Indigenous Day and Death in Colombia -- The Awa Indians in Colombia held a news conference to mark World Indigenous Day. It began with a moment of silence for five of the tribe, killed by masked gunmen 570 kilometers southwest of Bogota.
August 09, 2006 Reuters
	Masked gunmen massacre five Colombia Indians -- Masked gunmen dragged five Colombian Indians out of their homes and killed them on Wednesday after accusing them of collaborating with left-wing guerrillas, U.N representatives and indigenous leaders said.
July 22, 2006 The Irish Times (Ireland)
	Colombia's demobilisation crisis deepened by key judgment -- Colombia's constitutional court has struck down key provisions of a new law governing the demobilisation of the country's right-wing paramilitaries. Last week's ruling found unconstitutional clauses that shielded them from serious criminal penalties and has plunged the country's paramilitary demobilisation process deeper into crisis.
June 30, 2006 The Boston Herald
	Failing Colombia policy can't be sustained -- On June 9, I spearheaded a bipartisan amendment that would have reduced Colombia's military aid by $30 million, transferring those funds to increase emergency refugee aid. For this I have been attacked by columnist Robert Novak, who insists such a move would have been a "disastrous cut." However, even if my amendment had passed, Colombia would have received $9 million more than what the Bush administration requested from Congress. That's a "disastrous cut?"
June 26, 2006 The Providence Journal
	In Colombia: Military crimes point to a growing problem. -- MEDIA REPORTS about the alleged massacre of 24 civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, have focused on the idea that soldiers "snapped" under combat stress. But as details emerge about Haditha and other civilian killings -- including allegations of cover-up attempts -- there is increasing concern that U.S. military forces could be turning rogue because some members think they operate in a culture of impunity. As Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told The Guardian, of London, on June 3, killings of civilians have become "a daily phenomenon." "They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion," al-Maliki said.
June 26, 2006 Inter Press Service
	New Breed of Paramilitaries Infiltrate Urban 'Refuges' -- Legend has it that Ciudad Bolívar, a poor neighbourhood strung along the hills on the south side of the Colombian capital, is so called because independence hero Simón Bolívar briefly took refuge in the area after narrowly escaping an assassination attempt in 1828. Today, it is riddled with the concrete failure of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe‚s push for paramilitary demobilisation.
June 14, 2006 Reuters
	Bush, Uribe say hope to finalize trade pact soon. -- President Bush and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said on Wednesday they hoped soon to finalize details of a free trade agreement the two countries said in February was done.
June 08, 2006 Financial Times (UK)
	Colombia 'most dangerous' place for trade unionists -- Colombia remains the most dangerous place on earth to be a trade unionist, with 70 people killed there last year for union activities. In addition, 260 Colombian trade unionists received death threats "in a climate of continuing impunity for the assassins, according to the annual survey released today by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.
May 22, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US -- Indigenous and campesino protests against the free trade deal that Colombia is negotiating with the United States drew a harsh military response from the government of rightwing President Álvaro Uribe, leaving an as yet unknown number of people dead, injured or missing.
May 21, 2006 The Boston Globe
	$4B LATER, DRUGS STILL FLOW IN COLOMBIA -- Six years and $4 billion into the US-backed campaign to wipe out cocaine at its source, Colombia appears to be producing more coca than when the campaign started, according to US government estimates.
May 19, 2006 El Nuevo Herald
	Mining boss accused of paying for killings -- A former intelligence officer said he saw the head of the Colombian branch of a U.S. coal company pay to have two labor leaders killed, according to a court document.
May 05, 2006 Miami Herald
	Uribe's microchip comments draw fire -- Comments attributed to Colombia's president that microchip implants could be used to track Colombians working temporarily in the U.S. drew attention - and criticism - Thursday.
April 26, 2006 The AP
	Colombian Farmers Fear Cheap U.S. Imports -- For 25 years, Victor Murillo has grown rice on a five-acre plot in Colombia's central farm belt. But a new trade pact with the United States threatens his livelihood, and he's tempted to switch to a new crop: the tall, stalky coca plant that yields cocaine.
April 20, 2006 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
	Plan Patriota: What $700 Million in U.S. Cash Will and Will Not Buy You in Colombia -- Since taking office on August 7, 2002, Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has made resolving that country’s decades-old internal conflict the prime focus of his administration’s policies. Now, in a politically risky move, Uribe has actively sought (and obtained) Washington’s backing for a military campaign against the long-surviving guerrilla movement, an offensive that may prove to be the Andean “bridge too far.”
April 18, 2006 Associated Press
	Colombian President Lashes Out at Magazine -- It was a most unpresidential spectacle: President Alvaro Uribe upbraiding the editor of Colombia's top news magazine on morning talk radio for rekindling a corruption scandal just weeks before he stands for re-election.
April 17, 2006 Reuters
	Rights group slams Colombia's Uribe over charges -- Human Rights Watch sharply criticized Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for what it called a "wildly improper response" to charges that his government's intelligence service helped paramilitaries kill civilians.
April 09, 2006 The Miami Herald
	An imperfect plan -- The story of Plan Colombia -- the U.S.-funded, $7.5 billion strategy launched to smash the cocaine traffic in this country -- may be best understood by studying a project to grow an ingredient for fancy salads near this once formidable coca-growing area.
April 04, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Coca-Cola, Nestle and Chiquita Brands on ‘Trial' -- The first public hearing held by the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) in its Colombia session accused U.S. and Swiss multinational corporations of benefiting from the civil war in this South American nation in order to boost profit margins.
April 04, 2006 UN High Commissioner for Refugees
	UNHCR warns of looming humanitarian emergency in Colombia among indigenous communities -- The UN refugee agency is warning of an imminent humanitarian emergency in Colombia after two different groups of indigenous people were forced to flee their ancestral homelands in recent weeks.
March 13, 2006 New York Times
	Elections, Reflecting Rightward Course, Buoy Colombian Leader -- While much of South America has veered to the political left, Colombia has taken a sharp turn to the right as voting results Monday showed a right-of-center coalition sweeping congressional elections.
March 05, 2006 New York Times
	Commanders Recast Old Militias of Colombia as Syndicates for Drugs and Extortion -- As some 23,000 paramilitary fighters have disarmed here over the last two years, their top commanders have declared their intentions to play a role in politics.
February 14, 2006 Colombia Journal
	Mainstream Media an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy -- The media’s continued over-reliance on official sources, despite being fully aware of a long history of lying and manipulation by those sources, suggests that the corporate media is quite content to operate as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy by providing disinformation and outright lies to the U.S. public. A sequence of events transpired over the past few days that perfectly illustrate the mainstream media’s role as propagandists for the U.S. and Colombian governments. The massacre of six family members in Colombia and the release of a United Nations human rights report made the propagandistic nature of the media evident for all to see.
January 05, 2006 The Miami Herald
	U.N. assails law -- The United Nations on Wednesday criticized new regulations governing a peace law that grants concessions to Colombia's paramilitary warlords, saying the rules lack teeth to ensure reparations for victims.
November 10, 2005 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
	The EU and Colombia: Betraying Responsibility -- The European Union (EU) is on the verge of sending financial support to implement the atrocious Colombian “Justice and Peace Law” to demobilize that country’s paramilitary groups.
October 15, 2005 Justicia y Paz
	Afro-Colombian Community Leader Orlando Valencia Disappeared in Paramilitary-type Action -- Orlando Valencia, a resident of the Community Council of Curvaradó, was arbitrarily detained and disappeared after the vehicle in which he was traveling together with national and international accompaniers and other members of the communities was intercepted by police from Belén de Bajirá.