Juan Forero
Sunday, March 2, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's U.S.-backed security forces struck a major blow against the country's main guerrilla group Saturday, for the first time tracking down and killing a member of the organization's ruling echelon
Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 00:00
Among Chavez's new priorities is proving that Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century hero who is the inspiration for his movement, was slain by corrupt oligarchs and did not succumb to tuberculosis
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 00:00
While Castro may have inspired budding leaders, many of the leftist movements that rule the region's most important countries are far from revolutionary and more pragmatic than their model
Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 00:00
People here -- from small-time politicians to cattlemen, businessmen to farmers -- say the FARC and a smaller rebel group, the National Liberation Army, or ELN, are either directly responsible for kidnappings or have paid criminal organizations to carry t
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - 00:00
Anguished families who have waited as long as six years to see their loved ones freed were instead shattered as the mission unraveled
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - 00:00
Colombian guerrillas said Tuesday that they would hand over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Ch¿vez
Tuesday, December 18, 2007 - 00:00
It was a godsend, the 12-page letter that Ingrid Betancourt sent her mother. It confirmed that the best-known hostage in Colombia, one of hundreds, was alive, deep in a guerrilla encampment
Monday, December 10, 2007 - 00:00
BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 7 -- President Alvaro Uribe said Friday that his government was willing to meet with Marxist rebels in a specially demarcated swath of rural Colombia in a bid to win the release of high-profile hostages. The captives include a French-Colombian politician and three Pentagon contractors.
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<br />The announcement generated hope among hostages' families, and some analysts saw it as a reversal of the president's long-held pledge never to cede territory for talks with the rebels.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 00:00
A once-demoralized, inept opposition won an important victory in Sunday's national referendum on constitutional changes, exposing weaknesses in Ch?°vez's traditional base of support
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
Venezuelan voters delivered a stinging defeat to President Hugo Ch?°vez on Sunday, blocking proposed constitutional changes that would have given him political supremacy