Uribe Concludes U.S. Visit Marked by Honduran Crisis and FTA

July 01, 2009

Washington, 30 June (EFE).- Today the president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, concludes his visit to Washington, which has been marked by the crisis in Honduras and by Uribe’s efforts to unblock the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States, awaiting ratification by the U.S. Congress.

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For decades, Ecuador was perceived as an exception in a region plagued by drug trafficking, armed violence, and criminal capture of the state. While neighboring countries faced open wars between cartels and state forces, Ecuador seemed to remain on the sidelines of these dynamics. That image began to slowly crack and finally collapsed in January […]

Uribe Concludes U.S. Visit Marked by Honduran Crisis and FTA

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