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Around one hundred EFF supporters protested outside Parliament in Cape Town on Friday morning as President Zuma replied to the debate on the State of the Nation Address which he delivered on Tuesday.

Dying to use Chavez’s glass hearse

A Colombian funeral director had to buy back his customised Lincoln after a Venezuelan slip-up.

Rights abuses: Prosecutors in Colombia are investigating 3?000 cases where citizens were killed by troops to increase body counts

Colombia’s civilian kills exposed

The man who blew the whistle on ‘false positives’ says he’s now being targeted by a vengeful military.

US ‘holds key’ to peace in Colombia

Washington’s envoy will have to straddle a tightrope in the delicate process to end civil war.

Caption: Most popular at Poplar Grove: It is easy to see why this cottage is always the first one to be booked.

Colombians vote to end long civil war

Having won a close race, returning President Juan Manuel Santos vows to work towards peace.

Firebrand mayor guns for weapons

Firebrand mayor guns for weapons

Gustavo Petro has gone from guerrilla to peacemaker-politician.

Red-carding the cartels

Colombian Congress to tackle money laundering that threatens to make football ‘non-viable’.

Warring neighbours kiss and make up

The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia exploit the feelgood factor in the region to mend a relationship that had turned sour.

Colombians trick rebels

French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt freed from Farc rebels after six years

Farc’s prized hostage ‘losing her will to live’

The rumours are strong and persistent: Ingrid Betancourt, the most prized hostage being held by Colombian rebels, is in the jungles of remote Guaviare province, sick and losing…

Blood gold in Bogota

British mining giant Anglo American has been accused of profiting from the persecution, intimidation and killing of miners in Colombia who oppose the company’s operations. The…

Chávez rebuffs ‘the empire’

A billboard of Hugo Chávez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looms over a motorway in Venezuela, marking the entrance to a factory designed to produce three things: tractors, influence and…

Claims of militia links rock Colombian presidency

Colombia’s political establishment has been shaken by near-daily allegations of how President Alvaro Uribe’s allies worked with rightwing militias who for more than a decade used…

South American row under control

The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela met in Caracas this week to patch up frazzled relations after the worst diplomatic row between the South American neighbours for decades.…

Struggle to restore peace

Ten years ago, United States Marine Staff Sergeant Mark Hardin arrived in Haiti as part of a US force to restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power. Earlier this week, after the US…