Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:58 AM EST
Thousands of former combatants in Colombia's long-running conflict who surrendered their weapons to the government have since discovered the downside to civilian life: unemployment.
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Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:51 AM EST
A top Colombian drug trafficker has been captured in Venezuela and will be turned over to U.S. authorities, officials said Monday.
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Thu Nov 10, 2011 5:59 PM EST
What to do with a black, $250,000 Ferrari seized from a Colombian drug trafficker for which a buyer couldn't be found?
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Sat Nov 5, 2011 1:23 AM EDT
Alfonso Cano was a bespectacled middle-class intellectual who rose from chief ideologist to maximum leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia after the death of its legendary co-founder.
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Fri Nov 4, 2011 11:04 PM EDT
Colombia's main rebel group has suffered its second major setback in just over a year with the killing of its No. 1 commander, the bookish 63-year-old ideologue Alfonso Cano, officials say.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:16 PM EDT
Colombia's army reported 10 soldiers killed Saturday in an attack blamed on leftist rebels, the second such loss in less than three days.
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Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:23 PM EDT
Colombia's president calls a free trade pact finally approved by the U.S. Congress a commercial milestone that will build export muscle, but many of the country's small farmers fear for their livelihoods.
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Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:09 PM EDT
Presidents typically quit the limelight when their terms end, ease into contemplative repose, perhaps pen a memoir, and stay out of their successors' hair.
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Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:31 AM EDT
After police gunned down the notorious Colombian drug trafficker Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha in 1989, his sprawling cattle ranch was among the first of thousands of properties seized from drug lords to come under control of a unique state agency.
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Mon Apr 4, 2011 12:10 AM EDT
The reputed Venezuelan drug kingpin who Colombia has decided to extradite back home rather than to the U.S. says in a TV interview that he has videos proving Venezuela's ruling elite is deeply involved in cocaine trafficking.
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Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:34 PM EST
This nation that lost its isthmus to U.S.-backed separatists a century ago long has dreamed of creating an alternative to the Panama Canal, which has given its neighbor so much strategic heft and wealth in shipping tolls.
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Wed Dec 8, 2010 11:03 PM EST
Former President Alvaro Uribe sought secret talks during his second term with Colombia's main leftist rebel group in Switzerland, and the guerrillas even reached out to the U.S. Embassy, according to leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.
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Fri Nov 12, 2010 1:15 PM EST
They're treated like rock stars today, offered book contracts, movie deals and all-expense-paid trips to see their favorite soccer teams in Europe, while demanding thousands of dollars for interviews.
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Thu Nov 4, 2010 1:39 PM EDT
The Dutchwoman who joined Colombia's largest rebel group only to complain of disillusionment in a diary found in 2007 at an abandoned jungle camp now appears in a video pledging allegiance to the guerrillas.
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Mon Oct 4, 2010 5:37 PM EDT
Rescuers on Monday finished reinforcing the hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and sent a rescue capsule nearly all the way to where the men are trapped, proving the escape route works.
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Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:30 AM EDT
The families of 33 trapped miners are in high spirits after a surge in the drilling of escape tunnels raised hopes that the men's rescue may come sooner than scheduled.
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Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:53 PM EDT
As Bogota's two-term mayor, Antanas Mockus dressed as a superhero to fight graffiti, soaped up in his skivvies on TV for water conservation and sent mimes into the capital's streets to chastise misbehaving motorists with a smile.
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Thu Apr 1, 2010 6:31 PM EDT
Colombia's largest rebel group on Thursday turned over the remains of a police officer who died while being held captive — the guerrillas' latest gesture aimed at prodding the government into negotiating a prisoner exchange.
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:11 PM EDT
A package bomb killed a 12-year-old boy who may have been given it to take to a police station after school in Colombia's turbulent, coca-growing southwest, authorities said Friday.
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Wed Mar 3, 2010 3:12 AM EST
The tsunami that hit this coastal city sent 50-ton fishing boats crashing onto land and demolished its port — wiping out the $40 million in business that courses through the local economy from the annual anchovy and sardine catch.
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Wed Feb 3, 2010 3:30 PM EST
New militias have arisen to replace Colombia's notorious right-wing paramilitary groups and they are committing the same sorts of violence as their predecessors, a prominent international rights organization said Wednesday.
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Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:38 AM EST
Hunger turned to anger in Haiti's capital on Wednesday as hundreds of protesters marched through the streets accusing local officials of demanding bribes for donated food.
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Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:24 AM EST
It appears a southern governor kidnapped by presumed leftist rebels on his birthday had his throat slashed within a few hours of the abduction, a Colombian investigator said Wednesday.
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Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:10 PM EST
Colombia's police director says the son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar was directly involved in cartel business, even killings, rejecting the denials of a man whose reappearance is creating a sensation in Colombia 16 years after his father's death.
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Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:14 PM EDT
President Alvaro Uribe's government said Saturday it is dropping a demand that Colombia's main rebel group release all its police and military hostages at once, possibly opening the way for negotiations.
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