Sentence examples for colombian state from inspiring English sources

Critics say the Colombian state is obliged to investigate and prosecute.

What makes this development bizarre is its link to the current peace negotiations between the FARC and the Colombian state.

The continuous process of creating and demobilising illegal armed groups has been pivotal in building the Colombian state.

The Colombian state is scarcely alone in failing to back up assertions of sovereignty with meaningful actions.

The answer was to look outside the corporate sponsorship environment, which explains initial rumours around a Colombian state oil company.

"We have taken on the role of government in an area where the Colombian state has never been," continues Suárez.

The guerrillas financed much of their war against the Colombian state with ransom payments, and sought to put pressure on the government by taking political hostages.

That would deal a severe blow to ongoing peace talks with the FARC guerrillas, who have waged a 50-year war against the Colombian state.

Experts say the Bush administration must decide whether to maintain the Clinton administration's program, or re-engineer aid and look for other ways to bolster the Colombian state.

While Plan Colombia is credited with having saved the Colombian state, the "victory", as even Santos admits, is a Pyrrhic one.

In their 52-year fight against the Colombian state, Farc rebels used assault rifles, shrapnel-filled gas canisters, homemade landmines and mortar shells.