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From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly US air force officers and Congressmen tour the Palanquero base in Puerto Salgar, Colombia, in August.

Venezuelan authorities have captured a former Colombian official wanted for collaborating with outlawed right-wing paramilitary fighters.

A thousand people were evacuated and traffic was stopped after the Galeras volcano erupted in southern Colombia without causing casualties, officials said Saturday.

HEADLINES: Once again, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez verbally attacks President Alvaro Uribe and Colombia's Chancellor Jaime Bermudez.

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.

On Friday, October 30, U.S. and Colombian officials signed the controversial Defense Cooperation Agreement , granting the U.S. armed forces access to seven Colombian military bases for the next ten years.

Colombia extradited 45-year-old drug trafficker Jorge Ivan Urdinola Perea, alias "La Iguana," to the United States on Tuesday.

Colombia has accused neighbouring Venezuela of blowing up two pedestrian bridges on its shared border.

HEADLINES: Colombia has a new beauty queen. Miss Bolivar was chosen Monday night as the new Miss Colombia 2009-2010 and will represent Colombia in Miss Universe.

Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years after his father's death.

Colombian police arrested 11 people over the weekend who allegedly belonged to two networks that sent young women to Guatemala, Honduras and Panama, where they were forced to work as prostitutes, the National Police said.

A Venezuelan soldier stands behind a map showing where troops have been deployed along the Colombian border in Cedeno, Venezuela, on 5 November 2009.

Mention Colombia and hearty home cooking might not be the first thing that comes to mind.

Share + Nov 15, 2009 9:47 pm US/Eastern CARACAS, Venezuela 1 of 1 Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez answers questions from journalists before receving former Colombian president Ernesto Samper for a meeting at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas on August 6, 2009.

The chief of Colombia's secret police says a mob assaulted three of its agents as they tried to arrest a suspect with alleged guerrilla ties.

Chancelor David Choquehuanca reported that the Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas scheduled for December 14 and 15 will surely discuss the use of the 7 US military bases in Colombia." On Tuesday, Bolivian President, Evo Morales, asserted that he will call for an ALBA emergency meeting in order to analyze the US military bases ...

Thousand Venezuelans will join a march against the US military bases in Colombia in respond to the call of Venezuela United Socialist Party .

More than a year and a half after Colombia bombed a Colombian rebel stronghold in Ecuador, the two South American countries Friday took the first steps toward normalising their relations.

A Colombian cooking school has concocted a "love dessert" made with passion fruit - and Viagra.