THE bloodstained Plan Colombia campaign against Marxist revolutionaries in that country is to be wound up, US President Barack Obama said on Thursday.
Mr Obama welcomed Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to the White House to discuss the ongoing peace process with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) guerilla group.
Mr Obama pledged that his administration would be Mr Santos’s “partner in waging peace.”
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
ENRIQUE SANTIAGO ROMERO says the Colombian far-right’s election victory is deeply suspect — and the United States has its fingerprints all over it
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA



