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Federal prisons director Wilson Damasio says Brazilian gang leader Luiz Fernando da Costa and Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia of Colombia were planning the prison invasion along with two other inmates
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The department of Puno had approved the law in February
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The International Red Cross said Wednesday that Colombia broke the Geneva Conventions by deliberately using the humanitarian group's emblem during the covert military mission that freed Ingrid Betancourt
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Colombia must clarify an apparently "deliberate misuse" of the Red Cross symbol in a hostage rescue after a video revealed new details of the mission, the International Committee of the Red Cross said
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The ICRC said it had seen video footage that suggested the emblem was used deliberately in July's military mission
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Although RCN news director Clara Elvira Ospina did not clarify whether the station paid the 60,000 dollars that were being asked for the 58-minute recording, the press had information that a member of the military was offering the video for 30,000 dollars
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Footage shown on Colombian television this week showed a member of the army team wearing a bib with the insignia before the rescue helicopter took off
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Diplomatic tensions over the release of Ingrid Betnacourt flared Wednesday as the Red Cross slammed the use of its emblem by Colombian forces who freed the hostage
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Morales flew to the eastern, opposition-run city of Santa Cruz on Wednesday afternoon, but protesters surrounded the football stadium he was due to visit and blocked roads
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The clashes underlined combustible tensions on the eve of Sunday's referendum, which will ask voters whether Morales and provincial governors should stay in power