The former Colombian ambassador to the United States, Carolina Barco Isakson, noted that the nation has progressed significantly since the immensely violent drug-hub of two decades ago. 

Libya has constantly made the headlines in the recent months: The speech of Libya’s leader, who has been in power for 40 years, at the United Nations General Assembly last week provoked much controversy; The release of a Libyan convicted in a 1988 plane bombing has roused much anger in both sides of the Atlantic in late August.