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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...
made popular Nov 6 2009
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...
made popular Nov 4 2009
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...
made popular Nov 3 2009
In a private ceremony, the American ambassador, William Brownfield, and three Colombian ministers signed an agreement on Friday to expand Washington’s military...
made popular Oct 31 2009
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...
made popular Oct 27 2009
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...
made popular Oct 20 2009
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...
made popular Sep 30 2009
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Russia’s parliament unanimously approved resolutions on Monday calling for the recognition of two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states, a move likely to...
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June 28 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lankan forces captured a rebel town in the northeast of the island nation that served as a logistics center for the Sea Tigers, the...
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Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, rebel chief Joseph Kony, who has led a brutal struggle in northern Uganda for more than 20 years leaving thousands of people dead,...
made popular Apr 17 2008
Security forces killed seven rebels in Manipur in separate incidents, after the rebel group ambushed five paramilitary troops earlier. The restive state of Manipur...
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Elda Mosquera Garcia, alias “Karina,” a former rebel of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who surrendered to authorities last year, arrives for a press interview at the secret police headquarters in Bogota, Tuesday, March 17, 2009.
