Obama Attends Meetings With World Leaders In NYC During UN General Assembly
President Juan Manuel Santos Calderon of Colombia attends a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama (not pictured) September 24, 2010 in New York City. Obama has been in New York since Wednesday attending the annual General Assembly at the United Nations, where yesterday he stressed the need for a resolution between Israel and Palestine, and a renewed international effort to keep Iran from attaining nuclear weapons. UPI/Spencer Platt/POOL
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BOGOTA, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- One of Colombia's most-wanted drug lords has been arrested in Venezuela along with his brother, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed.
BOGOTA, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says the country's largest guerrilla group is so crippled financially that members have resorted to selling cattle.
DOSQUEBRADAS, Colombia, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The death toll from a pipeline explosion and fire in central Colombia stood at 13 Saturday with 99 injured, 17 critically, authorities said.
BOGOTA, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Colombian officials say marches are planned Tuesday to protest the FARC rebels' execution of four military hostages who had been held for more than a decade.
BOGOTA, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos criticized leftist rebels' "cowardly" killings of four government security force members they had held prisoner for years.
BOGOTA, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Leftist Colombian rebels executed four government security force members they had held prisoner for years, the South American country's president has confirmed.
LIMA, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Latin America's Union of South American Nations, aspiring to become a regional security umbrella organization, has served notice on members to get their facts together on who is spending what on defense in the region.
BOGOTA, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Colombian security forces killed the leader of the country's largest socialist militant group, FARC, the president and defense minister said Saturday.
BOGOTA, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Colombia's security organization faced disarray after the government dissolved the main domestic intelligence agency and unveiled plans to fragment its operations.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Latin American defense spending is set to grow from less than $60 billion in 2011 to more than $65 billion by 2014 despite huge cutbacks and effects of economic slowdown in the region, industry estimates said.
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