Frank Bajak
Monday, February 4, 2008 - 00:00
In a communique, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said the planned liberation springs from efforts by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and "other friendly governments" to seek a solution
Friday, February 1, 2008 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods
Friday, February 1, 2008 - 00:00
Naranjo said he fired Martinez on Jan. 18, immediately after he was caught — along with his wife and 16-year-old daughter — escorting wanted trafficker Miguel Angel Mejia in a three-auto motorcade
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:00
The letters from eight captive politicians, police officers and soldiers describe being chained by the neck, and suffering from malaria, tropical parasites, heart ailments and diarrhea so severe that one captive couldn't walk
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 00:00
Just weeks later, an Associated Press news team had to talk its way past testy rebels just to reach the dirt-street town, from which hundreds of people have fled since police and soldiers moved in
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 00:00
Mancuso keeps busy running his own website, recently joined the Facebook online social-networking community and says he is writing a history of Colombia's recent conflict
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 00:00
Life was hard enough for most people in this desert region of farmers and fishermen devastated by last week's deadly earthquake
Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 00:00
Soldiers headed yesterday to stretches of a highway plagued by looting near this southern fishing city, trying to restore order