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...Between 2006 and 2010 alone, the administration of Álvaro Uribe granted about 9,000 mining licences, with an estimated 15,000 more requests caught in a bottleneck of too few officials with too little office...
...President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and former president Álvaro Uribe of Colombia modelled a life-saving guayabera, the loosely fitting Caribbean dress shirt with two pockets at the waist....
...When Alvaro Uribe, then Colombia’s president, agreed in 2009 to let the US military use the country’s air bases to help local forces hunt down traffickers, it triggered protests across the region about “...
...Without lies, Santos, without lies,” Mr Londoño, known by his alias “Timochenko”, said in a note that likened the Farc to Adam and Eve being cast out of heaven....
...The temperature eventually lowered – but only after Mr Chávez reportedly threatened to leave, and Mr Uribe told him to stay and to “be a man”....
...Alvaro Uribe, centre-right president of Colombia and one of Washington’s closest allies in the region, endorsed the election....
...The first is that Mr Uribe’s manifesto of “democratic security”, which has made combating the country’s armed insurgent groups a priority....
...But when the administration of President Álvaro Uribe extradited Don Berna in May last year, things changed....
...Using a protein-heavy diet, Mr Uribe has managed to lose about 250kg, down from his peak of around 560kg. “I was so big that I couldn’t breathe,” recalls Mr Uribe. “Now I’m living a different life.”...
...Last month, Mr Obama asked to sit next to Alviro Uribe, president of Colombia, at a summit dinner....
...But as Adam Isacson, of the Center for International Policy in Washington, has pointed out, it is possible that Farc commanders may have exaggerated their connections with neighbouring governments in order...
...Jude Webber Uribe’s Machiavellian tactics The audacious President Álvaro Uribe has pulled off another political coup....
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...Adam Thomson Uribe’s gamble President Álvaro Uribe’s controversial attack on Ecuador-based Farc fighters at the beginning of March may have been a calculated gamble but it has paid off handsomely....
...Adam Isacson, a director at the Washington-based Centre for International Policy, said that the release of the hostages – “without fanfare, without a big political show” – would help to undo much of the...
...Since 2002, when Mr Uribe took office, the Farc has lost about 50 per cent of its troops....
...Adam Isacson, Colombia analyst at the Centre for International Policy in Washington, believes the latest incident will not greatly affect how Colombia is perceived in the US Congress but suggests it will...
...Even Colombia, which under Álvaro Uribe since 2002 has had a coherent security policy, has struggled to disrupt the organisation’s activities....
...shows President Alvaro Uribe was the main winner in the contest....
...Adam Thomson The US free trade push The Bush administration has been wheeling out its heavy guns for its Latin American allies over the last few days as it presses US legislators to approve pending free...
...Adam Isaacson, a Colombia specialist at the Center for International Policy, said: “The Democrats are not going to walk away from Colombia on drugs but FTA is a big problem....
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