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Preview: Segment of 8 Part Interview w. Robert Young Pelton

GlobalPunditOrg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:37:08 +0000

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 Places, Raven ),traveller, knowledge seeker, NatGeo writer, documentary...

Nicaragua president open to FARC talks

AP — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:39:06 +0000

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said he is open to meeting with Colombia’s FARC rebels, but the Colombian government angrily rejected the proposal on...

Nicaragua president says he's open to FARC talks

AP — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:25:04 +0000

Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega says he is open to meeting with Colombia’s FARC rebels.

Hugo Chavez hails Colombian rescue operation

Raja Krishnan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:45:18 +0000

The Ingrid Betancourt rescue: suspicious and not a solution for peace in Colombia

Tamara Pearson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:11:07 +0000

Yesterday, July 3, 15 hostages including the most famous, Ingrid Betancourt, were â€˜rescuedâ€™ from the FARC. The hostages were transported to a planned location in south eastern Colombia, handed over to the Colombian armed forces, and flown out...

Death stalked Betancourt's captivity in Colombia

Pooja — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:24:46 +0000

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 the radio. She was haunted by thoughts of suicide and fears that she would...

Hostages chained by the neck, slept in mud

Radhika — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:07:27 +0000

They were chained by their necks as punishment — sometimes to a tree or post — other times to each other.

Venezuelans Vexed Over â€˜Compromising Chavezâ€™

SHINO — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:57:28 +0000

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 annul the controversial ‘Law on the National Intelligence and...

Will a weakened FARC come around to negotiate peace?

View Point — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:43:45 +0000

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 to rout the rebels and thrash their cocaine trade. Betancourt, 46, who was...

Key dates in kidnappings of politician, Americans

AP — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:24:22 +0000

A look at key dates in the kidnapping of three American defense contractors and a Colombian politician held by Colombia’s largest rebel force, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or...