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FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas --
Clutching their children, siblings, spouses and parents amid tears and applause, three former American hostages held captive for more than five years denounced their rebel captors Monday as terrorists who kept them chained by t
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Marxist guerrillas of the FARC say they would be delighted to meet with both presumptive U.S. presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain, the Republican, and his Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama.
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The recently freed Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt has urged an end to the Colombian government's "vocabulary of hate" against her former captors.
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A group of Republican lawmakers and South Florida Colombian leaders believe it should mean something more: U.S. Congressional approval of the stalled Free Trade Agreement with the South American nation.
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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.
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Mexico City's police chief and its top prosecutor were forced out of office on Tuesday following a botched nightclub raid that resulted in the deaths of 12 people
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FARC rebels were bombarded with Ingrid Betancourt's voice in a campaign to urge them to give up
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Nafta has hurt the Mexican economy, and the US-Colombia free trade deal stands to replicate its mistakes
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With tears in her eyes, Betancourt gently shook her head in disbelief as senators rose to their feet to applaud her
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Some suggest this is the beginning of the end for a rebel group dating back more 40 years