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"I am not going to cut my hair until the day that the last of my fellow prisoners returns home," she said
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Two guerrillas who were detained last week in a mission that freed 15 hostages -- including three U.S. defense contractors -- may soon face a judge in the United States
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77 per cent of respondents would support a new presidential re-election bid, up 11 points since April
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Alfonso Cano, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, sent a message to his supporters recently proposing talks with the government on an exchange of prisoners and possible peace deal
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The U.S. team was supported by a vast intelligence-gathering operation based in the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, far to the north. There, a special 100-person unit made up of Special Forces planners, hostage negotiators and intelligence analysts worked
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Farmers angry at President Alan Garcia’s free-trade policies began a two-day strike
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Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, left, of Mexico City sought to defuse an escalating crisis over a botched police raid on a nightclub by accepting the resignations of the city’s police chief and its chief prosecutor.
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Brazilian police arrested a former Sao Paulo mayor and two prominent financiers Tuesday in a case that grew out of an influence-peddling scandal involving senior government officials.
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It was a scene that spoke volumes about Mexico's drug wars, which have killed more than 4,200 people in the past 18 months and persuaded the U.S. to pledge $1.4 billion to arm, equip and train Mexican forces.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 00:00
Three short messages recorded by Betancourt have been broadcast in the past few days from loudspeakers attached to helicopters flying over the jungles where the former hostage was held before she and 14 others were rescued in a bloodless deception.