News stories by Constanza Vieira, page 7

'They are very distressed. Their father, mother and two brothers have been killed. They have expressed the wish to leave the country,' Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzón said after meeting Tuesday with the surviving daughters and son of Ana Fabricia Córdoba, a prominent land rights activist assassinated on Jun. 7.

'First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist….' The celebrated quote by German anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller remains frighteningly relevant today in some parts of the world, like Colombia.

'I am Piedad Córdoba: a feminist, humanist and pacifist.'

The death of guerrilla commander Luis Suárez, aka Jorge Briceño or 'Mono Jojoy', is a 'devastating blow' for Colombia's FARC insurgents, military affairs analyst Ariel Ávila told IPS.

'The Santa Marta breeze cools off any conflict, it calms tempers. The city is the ideal place for the Santos-Chávez summit,' Colombian journalist Ernesto McCausland wrote on his Twitter blog ahead of Tuesday's meeting, which indeed patched up relations between Venezuela and Colombia.

During the eight years that Álvaro Uribe governed Colombia, annual economic growth averaged 4.3 percent. Nevertheless, President Juan Manuel Santos, who was sworn in on Saturday, has taken over a country with the highest unemployment rate in Latin America.

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe ends his second consecutive term Saturday with 75 percent approval ratings and strong international support reflected by his designation this week as vice chair of a United Nations-appointed international panel to investigate Israel's attack on a flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza in May.

The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure.

The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure.

Every day, Luz Marina Hache sees her disappeared husband, Eduardo Lorne, in their 25-year-old son. He sleeps the same way, is equally studious, and like his father, he is infuriated by injustice. He has the same beautiful face that she remembers.