Alvaro Uribe

Colombia’s drug-fueled guerrilla war has gone on for nearly half a century. The last round of peace talks fell apart 10 years ago. The two sides have been meeting in Cuba and may soon start formal peace negotiations. John Otis has the story.

Bogota inaugurated a new mayor this past weekend. Gustavo Petro has an unusual pedigree. He’s a former leftist guerrilla now in charge of Colombia’s largest city.

Colombia intelligence agency, the DAS, has been caught eavesdropping on citizens known to be critics of Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe. That’s feeding suspicion that the orders came from the top. John Otis reports from the capital Bogota.

John Otis reports from Colombia about President Alvaro Uribe’s efforts to win support from other South American nations for putting some new US military bases in his country. But he’s apparently finding it a hard sell.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been Washington’s closest ally in Latin America for the past eight years. But now Uribe wants to change the Colombian constitution to run for a third term next year. And that has fueled concern that he’s turning into an autocrat. From Colombia, John Otis reports.