Juan Forero
Friday, July 25, 2008 - 00:00
"If you resort to violence or being reactive or defensive, you're at an enormous disadvantage," said Vollmer
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 00:00
The worldwide condemnation of the rebels' tactics has helped solidify President Álvaro Uribe's hard-line position against the group
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
The U.S. team was supported by a vast intelligence-gathering operation based in the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, far to the north. There, a special 100-person unit made up of Special Forces planners, hostage negotiators and intelligence analysts worked
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Political analysts say the possibility of a role for Chavez will not come soon
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Attention has focused on how Colombian intelligence officers hatched a ruse with no apparent precedent and what its success says about the internal disorder in what was once Latin America's most powerful rebel group
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's military yesterday rescued the most prominent of several hundred hostages held by Marxist rebels
Saturday, June 28, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the legitimacy of President Álvaro Uribe's reelection in 2006, prompting Uribe to call on Congress to enable a new presidential election
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 00:00
The amount of land devoted to production of coca, the leaf used to make cocaine, has grown at a dramatic pace in Colombia despite a huge American-funded counter-drug program of aerial fumigation and aggressive interdiction
Monday, June 9, 2008 - 00:00
Some of those who know Cano, having rebelled with him in the 1970s or sat across from him in doomed peace talks, describe a man of keen intellect whose roots in communist politics make him the guerrilla commander best suited to lead the rebel group
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's largest rebel group pledged Sunday to carry on in its decades-long war against the U.S.-backed government after confirming that the group's legendary commander had died of natural causes