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The commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's Force 47 told reporters in Bogota Monday -- a day after surrendering -- that "the solution is not through war. There must be dialogue."
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The guerrilla, 45, was under pressure from Colombia's US-backed security forces as well as her own family, who reportedly pleaded with her to quit before she was killed
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By negotiating her surrender under the government amnesty legislation known as the Peace and Justice Law, she can be sentenced only to a maximum of eight years in prison
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Authorities say Nelly Avila Moreno, alias Karina, was one of the most violent female leaders of Latin America's longest-running insurrection
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A US Navy surveillance jet lost its way during a counter-drug mission and strayed into Venezuelan airspace, US officials said Monday
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The pilot "recognized his error and contacted a Venezuela tower to acknowledge that," said Tom Casey, spokesman for the U.S. State Department
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The defense minister said Monday that an American fighter plane violated Venezuelan airspace over the weekend, prompting the government here to summon the United States ambassador to explain the incident
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``We think this was a conscious act on the part of the North American navy, and is another knot in the chain of aggressions in which they seek to involve our country,'' Briceno said
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The S-3 Viking aircraft, based in Curacao, was on a training mission in international airspace near Los Roques Island, Venezuela, and experienced "intermittent navigational problems," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity
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Venezuela accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace around two of its small Caribbean islands in what it said was a provocation