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"We hope this new gesture helps clear the path to the exchange agreement the government has obstructed," the statement said
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
In a serious yet conversational manner, Leech takes readers through a whirlwind tour of Colombian politics
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
Sigifredo Lopez, the only survivor of the 12 Valle del Cauca deputies, tells how the FARC coldly murdered his colleagues in a tragedy that shook all Colombians
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
An estimated 50 percent of the worlds known lithium reserves lie in remote parts of its Andean high-mountain plateau, where some of the worlds largest uranium deposits are also thought to exist
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Fact Sheet
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<br />Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
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<br />Washington, DC
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<br />January 20, 2009
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<br />Challenges
<br />The involvement of various illegal armed groups and terrorist organizations in the drug trade helped fuel and intensify the instability that plagued much of Colombia during the 1980s and 1990s.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
Fact Sheet
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<br />Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
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<br />Washington, DC
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<br />January 20, 2009
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<br />Challenges
<br />Venezuela is one of the principal drug-transit countries in the Western Hemisphere. Counternarcotics successes in Colombia are causing a shift in trafficking patterns toward neighboring Venezuela, with which it shares a poorly controlled 2,200-kilometer border.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
Mexican troops have detained the police chief and 36 other officers in the resort of Cancun in connection with the murder last week of an ex-army general
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
Francisco Velasco, nicknamed the Viking, was taken into custody for questioning after scores of Mexican soldiers, backed by two armored cars, seized control of the city’s police headquarters
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
Much of the violence is happening not in towns along the border, where it was assumed the bloodshed would spread, but a considerable distance away, in places such as Phoenix and Atlanta.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 00:00
UNHCR is calling for a thorough investigation into the reported murders last week of 17 Awa indigenous people in a remote area of south-western Colombia