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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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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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
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
Mexico’s drug war is still raging, with over 22,000 people having been killed since 2006. Now, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, often referred to as the...
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrilla group has established permanent bases inside Brazil, the Brazilian press reported over the weekend,...
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Reporting from Bogota, Colombia - Leftist rebels on Tuesday freed one of Colombia’s longest-held hostages, an army corporal seized by insurgents when they overran...
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The army foiled a bomb attack Sunday on Orlando Beltran, a legislative candidate and former hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the...
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There’s not much difference between terrorists and narco-terrorists, they both thrive through intimidation, fear and violence. They both love to behead their...
made popular Jan 5 2010
Colombian officials say a New Year’s Day aerial bombing killed 22 rebels from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
The death toll reported Saturday...
made popular Jan 4 2010
Colombia’s military says air and ground assaults on two rebel camps have killed 18 insurgents and captured 13. An attack by guerrillas a few hours earlier killed...
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Two of Colombia’s biggest rebel groups have announced they intend to unite with each other against the country’s US-backed security forces.
The...
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Several former officials of the Ecuadorian government had ties with Colombia’s Marxist guerrillas, a commission named by President Rafael Correa conceded Tuesday....
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The Colombian government Thursday authorized the Catholic Church to begin direct negotiations with the FARC over the liberation of hostages.
Monsignor Dario Castrillon...
made popular Nov 27 2009
Seven FARC rebels and four government soldiers were killed in separate engagements in southwestern and eastern Colombia, the military said.
All of the guerrilla losses...
made popular Nov 11 2009
A senior commander of Colombia’s second-largest rebel group, the ELN, has broken out of prison after an armed raid by fellow rebels, officials say.
Gustavo...
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Reporting from Toribio, Colombia - Craving adventure and escape from his broken home, Jerson enlisted with leftist guerrillas when he was in his early teens. He saw it...
made popular Oct 7 2009
The murder of a Caqueta policeman gives authorities clues as to the rebel organization’s new strategy to eliminate opposition.
Authorities reported the murder of...
made popular Sep 17 2009
Reporting from Bogota, Colombia - Colombia and the United States have a recurring worry: This country’s largest rebel group succeeds in acquiring surface-to-air...
made popular Sep 14 2009
The demonstrations, which comes as the leader has become his most outspoken against critics, are reminiscent of mass marches against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of...
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Hooded men in uniforms without insignias on Wednesday shot and killed 12 members of the Awa indigenous group, including five children, on a reserve in a region plagued...
made popular Aug 27 2009
Ecuador refuses to consider Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC terrorists, its Defense Minister said Monday. Quito prefers using the term “irregular...
made popular Aug 18 2009
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe’s security policy has failed to attack the roots of violence and is beginning to show clear signs of weakness as violence in the...
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Bogota’s Ombudsman Office denounced a “flood” of accusations of human rights violations Wednesday and requested assistance to be able to assess all...
made popular Jul 30 2009
In an interview with Caracol Radio Monday, Santos addressed local reports of anti-tank weapons manufactured in Sweden being seized from members of the Revolutionary...
made popular Jul 28 2009
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) are celebrating their 45th anniversary, making them the oldest insurgent force in the world - and, despite recent...
made popular May 27 2009
Russia in recent months had been striving for improved relations, usually in the form of more arms sales, with Latin American nations in order to off-set American...
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Mexico’s powerful drug cartels are buying cocaine directly from Colombia’s main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a conference here...
made popular Oct 9 2008
A Colombian paramilitary leader, supposedly demobilised, confessed in court that the armed ultra-right group killed, in February 2000, more than 60 farmers in the town...
made popular Jul 31 2008
An Interview With Robert Young Pelton
The following is an excerpt from News E-Magazine GlobalPundit.Org’s Interview with author( World’s Most Dangerous...
made popular Jul 19 2008
They were chained by their necks as punishment — sometimes to a tree or post — other times to each other.
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Ingrid Betancourt began each day in captivity at 4 a.m. — cold and depressed but awake in the dark waiting to hear her mother’s words of encouragement over...
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Yesterday, July 3, 15 hostages including the most famous, Ingrid Betancourt, were ‘rescued’ from the FARC. The hostages were transported to a planned location in...
made popular Jul 6 2008
In what has been seen as an attempt to ward off too many polemical issues flying around his political career, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently promised to...
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Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages held for years by FARC rebels are finally free. President Alvaro Uribe’s U.S.-backed campaign seems...
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Chavez sent the uncharacteristically strong message to the leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, saying their ongoing efforts to overthrow...
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