La mayoría de las reuniones conjuntas ha sido en territorio estadounidense, según recordó este sábado en la capital colombiana el Servicio de Noticias del Estado (SNE).
Bush en Bogotá
El Tiempo, Colombia
Editorial
11 de Marzo de 2007. Redactor de EL TIEMPO.
Para Colombia, los puntos claves ante E.U. dependen menos de la Casa Blanca que del Congreso de ese país y su nueva mayoría.
Tan pronto el 'Air Force One' tocó tierra colombiana, una alarma advirtió a los visitantes que habían llegado al lugar más peligroso de todo el recorrido. Periódicos extranjeros coinciden en que la cita no le dejó nada concreto a Colombia.
Con absoluta puntualidad, a las 11:55 de la mañana, tocó tierra el Air Force One, que transportaba al Presidente de EE.UU., George W Bush, y a su comitiva. Con una franja azul y otra blanca y marcado con el número 29000, el Boeing se detuvo en la pista de la base aérea de Catam.
La visita a Bogotá del Presidente de Estados Unidos, George W. Bush, que tuvo lugar ayer domingo, no tiene ningún tinte ideológico pero si constituye un respaldo a las políticas del Jefe de Estado colombiano Álvaro Uribe, aseguró la embajadora de Colombia en Washington, Carolina Barco Isakson.
BOGOTA, Colombia --More than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Colombia over the past six years, by government count, yet the number of those murders solved can be counted on one hand.
BOGOTA, Colombia -- More than 800 trade unionists have been killed in Colombia over the past six years, by government count, yet the number of those murders solved can be counted on one hand.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's leftist guerrillas are planning attacks and sabotage during U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to his closest South American ally this weekend, the country's police commander said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration appears increasingly focused on undertaking a risky military rescue of three Americans held hostage more than four years by drug-trafficking leftist rebels in Colombia.
BOGOTA, Colombia --Facing skeptics in the new Democratic-led U.S. Congress, President Alvaro Uribe pleaded with the American public to continue a $700 million annual aid package that he credits for making his violence-tortured nation more peaceful and less corrupt.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, March 9 (Reuters) — A Colombian Navy sergeant was caught stealing a painting from the presidential palace in an embarrassing security lapse just days before President Bush visits, the authorities said Friday.
Colombia, a grateful recipient of $700 million a year in U.S. aid to fight drugs and guerrillas since 2000, rolled out a red carpet and a military honor guard for a brief but important visit by President Bush.
President Bush's visit to Latin America presents a timely opportunity to consolidate a success story in Colombia and to remind everyone that great victories against the toughest challenges are possible when the United States provides consistent help to a neighbor that is, above all, willing to help itself. But Bush also must use his trip to challenge all parties -- Democratic rivals and Colombian friends -- to finish their good work by coming together to approve the pending U.S.-Colombia trade-promotion agreement has well as to ferret out corruption and other abuses.
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - George W. Bush on Sunday will become the first U.S. president since Ronald Reagan to set foot in Bogota as he tries to bolster his staunchest Latin American ally fighting a decades-old insurgency and drug war.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, March 10 — The Bush administration has no closer ally in South America than Colombia, the recipient of more than $4 billion in American aid this decade to combat drug trafficking and guerrilla insurgencies. But a widening scandal tying paramilitary death squads and drug traffickers to close supporters of President Álvaro Uribe is clouding President Bush’s brief visit here on Sunday.
BOGOTA (Reuters) - President George W. Bush gave a vote of confidence to Colombia on Sunday, promising to secure more aid and a trade deal for his close ally President Alvaro Uribe as he fights a rebel insurgency and drug traffickers.
About 150 protesters attacked riot police with rocks and metal barriers and ripped down lampposts in Colombia's capital on Sunday, just moments after President Bush landed for a six-hour visit.
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 11 -- As Air Force One swooped over the Andes Mountains toward this city for the first time in a quarter-century, President Bush and his aides sat in the front compartments with an optimistic message about improved security after decades of civil war and drug trafficking.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia, March 11 —The risky nature of President Bush’s trip to this violent country was spelled out on a television monitor aboard Air Force One en route from Uruguay: “Colombia presents the most significant threat environment of this five country trip
BOGOTA --Colombia, a grateful recipient of $700 million a year in U.S. aid to fight drugs and guerrillas, rolled out a red carpet and a military honor guard for a brief but important visit by President Bush on Sunday.
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