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Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
Flanking Diaz-Balart for the Monday press conference in his Miami district office were a half-dozen South Florida Colombians
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
Peru's ultranationalist opposition leader is backing a general strike this week to protest President Alan Garcia's free-market policies and is considering a second presidential bid.
Monday, July 7, 2008 - 00:00
Amidst all the joy and celebration resulting from the Colombian military’s successful rescue of 15 hostages last week, the fact that the tactics utilized in the mission will likely endanger the lives of journalists and aid workers in the future has been
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
A poll by the Napoleon Franco organization for Bogota's El Espectador newspaper the day before the rescue showed Uribe with a 73 percent approval rating. When the company recontacted those surveyed on Thursday, Uribe's approval had risen to 91 percent
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
At the same time that Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was welcoming U.S. Republican presidential hopeful John McCain in the north of the country, the Supreme Court issued a communique calling on the government to "respect and obey the decisio
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Video filmed during the rescue shows the hostages filing grim-faced toward the helicopter in a grassy clearing fringed with a coca field, then embracing and weeping with joy after they are aloft and realize they are free
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Oscar Varela Garcia, who uses the alias "Capachivo," is an alleged key member of the Norte del Valle cocaine cartel who commanded a "group of hired assassins,"
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Attention has focused on how Colombian intelligence officers hatched a ruse with no apparent precedent and what its success says about the internal disorder in what was once Latin America's most powerful rebel group
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt said in an interview Sunday she would return to Colombia "in a few days" to write a play about her experience after being held in the jungle for six years
Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia's commando operation that freed 15 hostages including Ingrid Betancourt is likely to strengthen the Andean country's already close economic and security ties with the United States