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Two contract killers were sent to Quebec to assassinate the prime witness against the cousin of Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe, jailed for alleged links to paramilitary groups, media said
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Jairo Castillo said he received a call and faxed letter from Colombia's witness protection program on Monday cautioning that two gunmen posing as tourists had been dispatched to kill him
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Authorities on Monday warned Jairo Castillo, 40, a former member of an ultra-right paramilitary group who now lives in Canada, that investigators had determined that two hit men posing as tourists would try to kill him
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The government of President Alvaro Uribe this week unveiled an initiative to address victims' demands: a $4-billion reparations fund to be paid out over the next 10 years by the Social Action branch of the presidency
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Ten percent of Colombia's 268 federal lawmakers are behind bars and another 10 percent, including the Senate's president, are under investigation
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``This affects the government's ability to govern and deepens the crisis of legitimacy in Congress.''
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Chavez confirmed his willingness to help a day after New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said the socialist leader had agreed to mediate a possible exchange of the U.S. defense contractors for imprisoned guerrillas
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``We lost the contact we had with the FARC,'' Chavez said on state television during his weekly program. ``We had elaborated a communications system but it was pulverized''
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In an interview after the two men met, Mr. Richardson said that Mr. Chavez, who in recent months attempted his own mediation with the Marxist-inspired Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, welcomed Mr. Richardson’s efforts
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"I've had a good meeting with President Chavez ... (he) has told me that he is willing to help in this situation," Gov. Bill Richardson told reporters