Jeremy McDermott
Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 00:00
With the national army deployed in a stranglehold around the town, there is nobody to traffic the town's only commodity – drugs
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 00:00
The call from President Chavez to release the hundreds of hostages they hold comes at a crucial time for the rebels
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
Can the Colombian rebels, who have never been without the leadership of "Manuel Marulanda" and are under attack from all sides by the US-backed military, survive?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 00:00
By negotiating her surrender under the government amnesty legislation known as the Peace and Justice Law, she can be sentenced only to a maximum of eight years in prison
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
The radioactive material was found buried by the side of a main road near Bogota, the capital
Monday, March 3, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last night ordered troops and tanks to mass on the border with Colombia as he threatened war with his US-backed neighbour
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 00:00
During the innumerable interviews I had with him he never deviated from the party line, was unfailingly polite and unswervingly orthodox in his Marxist Leninism
Friday, February 29, 2008 - 00:00
President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared himself ready to go to Colombia to help secure the release of French Colombian citizen Ingrid Betancourt, after hostages released by Marxist guerrillas said that she was being held in “inhuman conditions”
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian guerrillas have again thrust themselves onto the world stage by releasing four of the 40-odd political hostages they hold into the care of their international ally, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 00:00
IT WAS shoulder to shoulder yesterday in downtown Bogota and in more than 140 cities around the world as millions of Colombians gathered to call for an end to the violence by Marxist rebels