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Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe offered FARC guerrillas cash rewards and freedom if they desert the rebel ranks with some of the hostages they are holding, a proposal questioned by the attorney general
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Uribe, who wants the US Congress to approve a free trade agreement the two countries signed in 2006, spoke with Clinton for 10 minutes
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
"Markets are not perfect (...) but they are engines of opportunity to achieve social justice," Rice said during what was likely to be her last visit to the region
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Rice said countries should not "repeat the mistakes of the Great Depression when nations deepened that crisis by turning inward"
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
The focus on gun smuggling comes as new Drug Enforcement Administration data out today show street prices of cocaine reaching near record levels
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Western Hemisphere nations must renew commitments to free trade despite global financial turmoil, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said
Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 00:00
Two U.S. Navy doctors recently embarked aboard a Brazilian Navy hospital ship for a month-long humanitarian medical outreach mission through the heart of the Amazon, helping to bring care to remote jungle villages along a 600-mile stretch of the Madeira R
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 00:00
A former Colombian rebel who surrendered after guiding a hostage to freedom embarked for Paris on Tuesday as part of a new reward program, accompanied by Ingrid Betancourt
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 00:00
70 per cent of respondents approve of Uribe’s performance, down 12 points since August
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - 00:00
A young Colombian rebel who won hero status for freeing a kidnapped politician headed for France on Tuesday accompanied by his girlfriend, the world's most celebrated ex-hostage and a fat reward check