Caucasia is the kind of backwater we’d like to pretend doesn’t exist. It is a miserable, poor, and ugly place, important only for drug traffickers, where grenade attacks are a weekly occurrence.

Oh Chavez, your huffing and puffing is that much less amusing now that your whole house is about to fall down.

Both Ingrid Betancourt and Oliver Stone have got some explaining to do.

With Juan Manuel Santos set to assume office, today is a good day to be looking towards the future. In many senses, the problems he is inheriting – particularly those concerning the drug trade – are far more complex than those faced by Uribe in 2006 and perhaps even 2002.