President Iván Duque reports on the launch of the “Orion 5” counter-drug naval campaign, carried out with the United States and 23 other countries.
April 7, 2020
Photos tagged “U.S. Policy”
Public domain photographs about peace, security, and human rights in Colombia
March 30, 2020
Caption: “La @DefensoriaCol acompaña en el aeropuerto El Dorado de Bogotá la llegada de 64 personas deportadas de Estados Unidos. Se busca, en compañía de sus familias, garantizarles sus derechos en las actuales circunstancias de cuarentena y un pronto reencuentro con sus seres queridos.”
March 14, 2020
The humanitarian portion of a joint U.S.-Colombian military exercise in La Guajira, “Ejercicio Vita.”
March 13, 2020
U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg and Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo visit the joint U.S.-Colombian “Ejercicio Vita” military exercise in La Guajira.
March 12, 2020
Tweet, translated, reads: “Members of Joint Task Force Bravo, Colombian military forces, Colombian Civil Defense, volunteers from Fundación Universitaria Juan N. Corpas and from Universidad Nacional de Colombia fly about 3 hours per day in Chinook helicopters to reach remote regions of La Guajira with the medical mission of “Ejercicio Vita” [a joint U.S.-Colombian military exercise in La Guajira].
March 3, 2020
At U.S. Southern Command’s Miami headquarters, Colombia’s Chief of Defense Maj. Gen. Luis Navarro Jiménez meets with Southcom commander Adm. Craig Faller “to discuss regional security and defense cooperation.”
March 2, 2020
Colombian President Iván Duque meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.
March 2, 2020
Colombian President Iván Duque meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.
March 2, 2020
Colombian President Iván Duque meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.
February 26, 2020
Gen. Daniel Walrath, the commander of U.S. Army South, the U.S. Southern Command’s Army component, visits Tumaco and the La Macarena region of southern Colombia.
February 19, 2020
U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg and USAID Mission Director Larry Sacks visit the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Colombia’s post-conflict transitional justice body.
February 4, 2020
Colombia’s Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, arrives at U.S. Southern Command and is greeted by Southcom Commander Adm. Craig Faller. Minister Holmes Trujillo visited Southcom to discuss security cooperation.
January 26, 2020
About 75 paratroopers from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division carry out a paratrooper exercise at the Tolemaida base in Tolima. They were joined by 40 more personnel from U.S. Army South, the Southern Command’s Texas-based army component. “This gives us a repetition at projecting power through joint forcible entry,” 82nd Airborne spokesman Lt. Col. Mike Burns told Army Times.
January 15, 2020
- The CEO of the International Development Finance Corporation, a U.S. government body that issues loans and loan guarantees, visits Tumaco, the Pacific coast municipality that leads all Colombian municipalities in land area planted with coca. Adam Boehler promises US$5 billion in financing for private development projects, and witnesses a coca eradication operation.
