COLOMBIAN President Juan Manuel Santos was ensnared on Tuesday in the massive corruption scandal rocking Brazil.
Colombian Attorney General Nestor Humberto Martinez said Brazilian firm Odebrecht paid up to £800,000 to Mr Santos’s election campaign in 2014.
The money was allegedly channelled to Mr Santos by Otto Bula, a former senator for the Liberal Party, founded by former president Alvaro Uribe — the chief opponent of last year’s peace deal with communist rebels.
Concessions to Washington by the post-Maduro leadership in Caracas are designed to preserve the core of the Bolivarian Revolution not betray it, argue Roger D Harris, Francisco Dominguez and Mara Paez Victor. How the solidarity movement responds is critical
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
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA



