BBC (UK)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
The recently freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has urged an end to the Colombian government's "vocabulary of hate" against her former captors.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008 - 00:00
Brazilian police have shot dead a three-year-old boy after apparently mistaking the car he was travelling in for a vehicle carrying armed suspects.
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
The two liberations illustrate the two very different types of hostages in Colombia: political captives, designed to further the Farc's agenda, and victims of economic extortion
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro has called on the Colombian Farc rebel movement to release all of its remaining hostages
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Cuba's former President Fidel Castro has called on the Colombian Farc rebel movement to release all of its remaining hostages.
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 00:00
French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages have been freed after rebels holding them were tricked into handing them over.
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 00:00
French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has hailed as a "miracle" her release from more than six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 00:00
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has used a visit to Colombia to urge the US Congress to pass a free trade deal between the two nations
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 00:00
The US ambassador to Paraguay has become a music sensation in the country after recording an album of folk songs in the indigenous Guarani language
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 00:00
Peruvian President Alan Garcia has told his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales, to "shut up" and stop meddling in Peru's internal affairs