From AP:  Colombia’s defense minister says his country has no interest in joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The comments by Juan Carlos Pinzon appear to back away from a statement by President Juan Manuel Santos that had alarmed some other South American leaders.

Pinzon told W Radio on Tuesday that Colombia “cannot be a member, does not want to be a member of NATO.”  (photo: EFE)

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