Colombia looks to NATO and beyond in regional defense

Peter Tase, Geopolitical Monitor (Canada)
In early 2013, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos proposed to establish closer military relations between his government and NATO. His public statement, made in early 2013, raised many eyebrows in the upper ranks of the Bolivarian anti- imperialist cluster of Latin American countries, many of whom are also are very vocal in UNASUR. Evo Morales, Bolivia’s president and one of the most outspoken proponents of Bolivarianism, expressed a high level of concern and called Santos’ action a “provocation and a threat” to Bolivarian countries like Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Nicaragua.