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Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, also known as Jorge Briceno or “Mono Jojoy,” the top military commander of the Marxist revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, was killed by Colombian troops on Wednesday, reported Azerbaijan news...
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Lorenzo, a parrot which used to alert drug traffickers in the Colombian city of Barranquilla of police presence, was “caught” in the act by authorities when...
made popular Sep 23 2010
Lorenzo the parrot was taken into police custody in Colombia after he was found warning members of a drug cartel that they were in danger of being caught.
The bird was...
made popular Sep 22 2010
A Colombian airstrike over the weekend killed a high-ranking rebel commander who was wanted in the United States, police said.
Sixto Antonio Cabana Guillen was among...
made popular Sep 21 2010
The Colombian military said it killed at least 22 leftist guerrillas Sunday in an offensive involving aerial bombardment and ground troops near the border with...
made popular Sep 20 2010
The men had been hiding out in the Valencia region in eastern Spain using fake identities. One had even altered his fingerprints to evade detection.
Police named them...
made popular Sep 16 2010
For the first time a senior American official has compared the Mexico drug war to an “insurgency” akin to the situation in Colombia in the 1980s, sparking tensions...
made popular Sep 10 2010
He arrived at this town on the edge of guerrilla territory with his entourage. They included a producer, a sound man, two scantily clad dancers and a harried servant,...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car — preferably a Mercedes— and wants...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Fourteen police officers were killed when their patrol vehicle was blown up by a rebel mine on a road in southern Caqueta department, local police said...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Five police officers have been killed and three injured by a roadside bomb in the Colombian state of Caqueta, acting Governor Edilberto Endo said.
The policemen were...
made popular Sep 2 2010
In the space of a week, the powerful drug cartel Los Zetas has been suspected of launching a full-on attack on social institutions in the northern Mexican state of...
made popular Sep 1 2010
A status update nobody wants to see: Three Colombian teenagers have been killed after their names appeared, along with 97 others, on a multipart “hit list”...
made popular Aug 26 2010
Colombia’s Galeras volcano erupted early Wednesday, but authorities say the situation is under control, though they are continuing to ask local villagers to evacuate...
made popular Aug 26 2010
Colombia’s largest rebel group is offering dialogue on the country’s conflict, saying in an Internet posting Monday that it is willing to present its ideas...
made popular Aug 24 2010
The Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that last year’s agreement giving the U.S. military access to more Colombian bases is unconstitutional because it...
made popular Aug 18 2010
A plane crash in Colombia killed a passenger Monday morning, BNO News reports. The Aires airplane is thought to have been struck by lightning while attempting to land...
made popular Aug 17 2010
Colombia’s peso fell the most in three months after President Juan Manuel Santos challenged the central bank to take steps to ease a rally that drove the local...
made popular Aug 13 2010
The drug cartels in Mexico have adopted the strategy of the Colombian narco kingpin Pablo Escobar. Realistically, they could even surpass it and permeate more...
made popular Aug 12 2010
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Colombia’s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, moved on Tuesday to repair diplomatic relations after ties had sharply...
made popular Aug 11 2010
The next violent outbreak of Baloch sentiments came in 1958. This was the direct result of the centralizing policies pursued by the Napakistani leaders. Fears of...
made popular Aug 9 2010
The Mexico drug war is pushing officials to take heed of Colombia, which made progress with social welfare programs and acknowledgment that force alone doesn’t...
made popular Aug 6 2010
After the posturing and hysterics, an emergency meeting and competing press briefings, South American leaders were unable to resolve a crisis that began when the...
made popular Aug 2 2010
President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia in a dispute over...
made popular Jul 27 2010
Venezuela and Colombia are the original odd-couple of Hemispheric diplomacy. With the former run by a rambunctious socialist autocrat and the latter by a U.S.-aligned...
made popular Jul 27 2010
President Hugo Chavez announced on Thursday that Venezuela was breaking diplomatic relations with Colombia over Bogota’s claims that his government is sheltering...
made popular Jul 23 2010
At least 32 people were injured over the weekend when the platform they were standing on collapsed during a bullfighting festival in El Bagre, a town in the...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The group of Colombian reporters detained earlier this weekend by Venezuelan authorities arrived Sunday in Colombia after being deported by the neighboring country,...
made popular Jul 19 2010
Former Deputy Communications Minister Rommel Hurtado was gunned down Thursday in the western city of Armenia, Colombian police said.
Hurtado, who served in the...
made popular Jul 16 2010
Colombia’s government took Ingrid Betancourt’s bodyguards away as she was about to drive into a jungle area filled with guerrillas, the former hostage said...
made popular Jul 12 2010
The U.S. government has denied a visa to a prominent Colombian journalist who specializes in conflict and human rights reporting to attend a prestigious fellowship at...
made popular Jul 9 2010
Twelve leftist guerrillas were killed Tuesday in an air strike in northern Colombia and six others were captured in a joint operation by the air force and navy,...
made popular Jul 7 2010
Model and television personality Ivone Gomez was fatally shot just 2½ months after her husband was slain, the Colombian press said Wednesday.
Gomez, 28, was killed...
made popular Jul 1 2010
The Venezuelan Foreign Relations Ministry congratulated Colombian President-Elect Juan Manuel Santos for his victory in Sunday’s elections, but said Venezuela will...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Peru on Wednesday rejected the conclusion of a recent UN report that it has overtaken Colombia to become the world’s top coca producer.
Peru became the biggest...
made popular Jun 24 2010
*Taboo*
Taboo means forbidden. A taboo is something barred, shunned or excluded by a society or a group.
*Definition in a sentence*
From Reconstruction to the...
made popular Jun 21 2010
The U.S. government has indicted and arrested most of the top tier of the largest Colombian drug trafficking organization in history, CBS News Chief Foreign Affairs...
made popular Jun 21 2010
The man most likely to become Colombia’s next president this Sunday has played a previously undisclosed role as a corporate officer of the company hired to run...
made popular Jun 19 2010
More than 70 Colombian miners are feared dead after they were trapped by an explosion that ripped through a coal mine in what could become one of the Andean...
made popular Jun 18 2010
Fathers’ Day came early this year for two young boys who met their dad for the first time today after Colombia’s army rescued him from a jungle camp where...
made popular Jun 15 2010
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Faithful wearing surgical masks stand in front of a church in Zipaquira, Colombia, Sunday, May 3, 2009. The Colombian government confirmed Sunday the first case of swine flu, a 45-years-old man recently arrived from a sales seminar in Cancun, Mexico. The.
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