Court declares U.S.-Colombia bases agreement unconstitutional/ El Constitucional deja sin efecto el acuerdo de bases Colombia-EEUU

Colombia's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the agreement granting the U.S. military forces additional access to Colombian military bases is unconstitutional, arguing that the accord hasn't been passed by the Congress. The agreement, which was signed between former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's administration and the U.S. government in 2009, allows 1,400 U.S. military personnel and contractors to use seven Colombian military bases for fighting narco-trafficking and terrorism ( more...)/ Un acuerdo que permitía a militares de Estados Unidos operar en siete bases en Colombia quedó sin efecto el martes por un fallo de la Corte Constitucional, que dispuso que el convenio debe ser aprobado por el Congreso antes de que la misma pueda determinar su validez (más...)