Spencer S. Hsu
Thursday, August 27, 2015 - 06:17
A former member of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia pleaded guilty Wednesday to holding three U.S. defense contractors hostage in the Colombian jungle for more than five years, during which time they became among the most important of 700 hostages held by FARC.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 00:00
A U.S. federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted 18 alleged members of a leftist Colombian rebel group on terrorism and weapons charges in connection with the hostage-taking of three U.S. government contractors in 2003.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 00:00
By reinforcing the 340 Guard members already monitoring border crossings and analyzing intelligence, the initiative echoes 2006's Operation Jump Start, in which President George W. Bush devoted 6,000 guardsmen to a two-year commitment in support of the Bo
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 00:00
The move signals a likely death knell for a troubled five-year plan to drape a chain of tower-mounted sensors and other surveillance gear across most of the 2,000-mile southern border.
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 00:00
A binational task force on U.S.-Mexico border issues will call Friday on the Obama administration and Congress to reinstate an expired ban on assault weapons and for Mexico to overhaul its frontier police
Friday, October 23, 2009 - 00:00
U.S. authorities arrested 303 people Wednesday and Thursday in a nationwide sweep targeting the distribution network of La Familia, a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel known for its violence
Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 00:00
Among other things, the 65-page White House Office of National Drug Control Policy document says federal agencies should modernize airborne sensors and extend surveillance of boats 'from the coast to beyond the horizon'
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 00:00
On the eve of his summit with Mexican President Felipe Calderon today, Obama added the cartels to the list of banned foreign "drug kingpins
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 00:00
Obama Plans to Send Agents, Equipment To Aid Mexican Fight
Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 00:00
Napolitano said she has reached out to national security adviser James L. Jones, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and local and state law enforcement officials to review ways to assist Mexican law enforcement