Republic of ColombiaRepública de Colombia CAPITAL: Bogotá FLAG: The national flag consists of three horizontal stripes; the yellow upper stripe is twice as wide as each of the other two, which are blue and red. ANTHEM: Himno Nacional,...

Colombia POPULATION 41,008,227 ROMAN CATHOLIC 81 percent OTHER CHRISTIAN 10 percent EVANGELICAL 3.5 percent OTHER 3.6 percent NONRELIGIOUS 1.9 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Colombia, located in northern South America, is...

Colombia Colombia is a formal constitutional democracy and one of the oldest democracies in Latin America. Nonetheless, its democracy has often been dysfunctional in character. Even in the early twenty-first century, it struggled to provide effective...

Colombia (IPA: /kəˈlʌmbɪə/) officially the Republic of Colombia (Spanish: República de Colombia (help·info), IPA: [reˈpuβ̞lika ð̞e koˈlombja]), is a country located in the northwestern region of South America. Colombia is bordered to the...

Latin America: As U.S. allies go, we can't get one better than Colombia. It helps us a lot and now seeks free trade. But all it gets from Congress is a slap in the face. We now risk losing a vital ally.President Alvaro Uribe is...

Free Trade: Colombia's enemies are desperate to discredit our ally to halt a U.S. free trade pact. They've smeared its government and called its drug war a failure. But new events show their arguments falling apart.Colombia's government is bad, and the drug war lost, only...

President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused neighboring Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela."I accuse the government of Colombia of devising a conspiracy, acting as a pawn of the U.S. empire, of devising a military provocation against Venezuela," Chavez said."A...

Free Trade: Congressional Democrats justify scrapping a U.S. trade pact with our best ally in the hemisphere on vague claims its government violates human rights. Last week, Colombia's people saw a different enemy.It was couched in syrupy language, but it was as bad a blow...

Colombia has been widely recognized worldwide as a country that suffers from two major plights: drug trafficking and political violence. As the political situation becomes increasingly unstable, and with the government lacking the necessary resources to address it, the citizens in Colombia must turn to one another in order to lead a cause that will end the political bloodshed and bring this country into an ordered society with a democratic government.