
Round nine in the Colombian Liga Postobon features two high profile derbies with Santa Fe taking on Millonarios while Deportivo Cali host arch rivals America.

Round nine in the Colombian Liga Postobon features two high profile derbies with Santa Fe taking on Millonarios while Deportivo Cali host arch rivals America.

Noemi Sanin won Sunday's Conservative Party primary and will be the party's presidential candidate in the May 30 election. Opponent Andres Felipe Arias congratulated the former ambassador to the UK.

Spanish opposition leader Mariano Rajoy commended president Alvaro Uribe on improving Colombia's human rights record during his administration, following a meeting with the president on Friday.

Authorities from the central Colombian department of Cundinamarca announced the release of sixteen members of the national army who were being investigated for committing extrajudicial murder of a youth in the municipality of Soacha.

The U.S.-Colombia military base agreement is completely misunderstood, and it is one of the many examples of U.S. military agreements aimed at exporting security in order to stay out of foreign countries in the long run, argues prominent U.S. political-military strategist and author Thomas Barnett.

Police in the western Colombian department of Cauca announced two separate attacks within the department by guerrilla group FARC in the last 24 hours.

The Colombian ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) walked out of a meeting after Ecuador requested that the OAS pass a resolution condemning Colombia for its 2008 attack on a FARC camp on Ecuadorean soil.

Independiente Medellin remain without a win in the Copa Libertadores. Late on Thursday, the Colombian league champions were held to a goalless draw by Racing Club of Uruguay.

Colombian guerrilla group ELN kidnapped three politicians active in the country's Partido de la U, in the western department of Arauca, close to the Venezuelan border.
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