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Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the latest case, four Russians told their victim that he would die within 24 hours if he...
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President Hugo Chavez on Sunday ordered Venezuela’s military to prepare for a possible armed conflict with Colombia, saying his country’s soldiers should be...
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Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public.
Under the 10-year deal, the US military...
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Fredys Villanueva has abandoned his native Colombia for neighboring Venezuela. But he’s not quite like the hundreds of thousands of Colombians who have fled their...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Two international bridges between Venezuela and Colombia remained closed, as Venezuelan authorities searched for three people and arrested a fourth suspected in the...
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From Nariño to Bogota to Magdalena, armed death squads are once again imposing a brutal brand of justice with worrying tolerance from the authorities. Alvaro Uribe...
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In a private ceremony, the American ambassador, William Brownfield, and three Colombian ministers signed an agreement on Friday to expand Washington’s military...
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Colombia’s National Planning Council claimed Tuesday that the fight against drugs is lost and the current government’s ‘Democratic Security’...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Colombia is doing better than Venezuela, but still has a long way to go before the country can proudly say it is guaranteeing a freedom of press, prominent journalist...
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The bullet-ridden bodies of 10 members of a Colombian football team, who were kidnapped two weeks ago, have been found on the Venezuelan border.
One member of the team...
made popular Oct 26 2009
Finally U.S. politicians have understood that the War on Drugs and by extension Plan Colombia has failed. As it was to be expected the Colombian government swiftly...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Colombian federal authorities announced Monday it will station 1,900 troops in the area south of Bogota after two local politicians were found murdered in a village 30...
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The Colombian government has, for the most part, ignored the frustrations of the country’s growing victims’ organizations. Now, these groups are speaking directly...
made popular Oct 19 2009
Beauty queens, fashion models, actresses or regular girls made good are lovers of drug capos and above all lovers of the finest luxuries cocaine money can buy.
Few are...
made popular Oct 15 2009
This city’s drug underworld is littered with “poseurs” — lowlife triggermen pretending they’re the real hard cases.
But a longstanding...
made popular Oct 14 2009
A 9mm pistol and a .38 revolver lie on his work bench. An old battery-powered radio blares out the salsa music classic, “Todo Tiene Su Final” or...
made popular Oct 13 2009
Peace in Colombia is impossible at the moment because of the current country’s government policy, opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba said Sunday.
According to the...
made popular Oct 12 2009
Two of Latin America’s best known airlines are set to merge in a deal aimed at cost-cutting.
Avianca of Colombia and El Salvador’s Taca will join forces,...
made popular Oct 9 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...
made popular Oct 8 2009
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
Relatives of 185 people killed by paramilitaries in Puerto Nare, Antioquia, are facing the possibility that there is no one to be sentenced for the murders.
Ramón...
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President Alan García struggled over the weekend to defuse a protest by Amazon indigenous groups that left more than 50 police and Indians dead.
The demonstrations...
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A Singaporean is among those taken hostage during coordinated attacks across India’s commercial capital of Mumbai, the foreign ministry said Thursday.“The...
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Both the White House and President-elect Barack Obama condemned today’s series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India, the first major terrorist incident since...
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While the world reacts in anger and grief at the terror attacks in Mumbai, it’s vitally important to recognize the environment this has occurred in. Failure to do so...
made popular Nov 27 2008
President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have “strongly” deplored the attacks in India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 82...
made popular Nov 27 2008
A heartbreaking exchange took place today (July 16) between Israel and Hezbollah. Five terrorists, Samir Kuntar, the murderer of a four year old girl among them, were...
made popular Jul 17 2008
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
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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The day before yesterday (Sunday, June 29) Israeli cabinet approved an unusual deal: the bodies of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for Samir Kuntar and several other...
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Only those who cherish liberty know its value. The 21 Korean hostages holed up in Afghanistan cry for liberty, their family members are crying for their liberation,...
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In this photo released by the Saba, Yemen’s official news agency, two of the three freed German hostages Julia Thielebein , left, and her father Heinrich Thielebein, appear at the interior ministry where the German hostages were received after their...
