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Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, held hostage by Colombian rebels since 2002, is seriously ill with hepatitis B and malnutrition, the country's human rights ombudsman said
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
"With 10 times the troops and a $7bn annual budget, the least [Colombia] could do is control the border," said Wellington Sandoval, Ecuadorean defence minister, during a recent surprise visit to Puerto Nuevo
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Chavez said he called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe yesterday to discuss why Colombia continues to publish accusations based on information in four laptop computers recovered from a guerrilla camp
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Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said if some captives are liberated, that could jump-start the process of exchanging guerrillas for dozens of high-profile hostages, such as three U.S. defense contractors
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The project, called Cybersyn, was the brainchild of A. Stafford Beer, a visionary Briton who employed his “cybernetic” concepts to help Mr. Allende find an alternative to the planned economies of Cuba and the Soviet Union
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
Ometepe Island, a budding Nicaraguan tourist destination dubbed an "oasis of peace," was anything but during a recent week, when it hosted two dozen members of a British Rapid Deployment Team on an intensive disaster-response training exercise
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
The health of a high-profile rebel hostage has worsened in recent weeks, a Colombian official said
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An alleged rebel cache of uranium is raising concern in Washington -- and questions about why the rebels had the radioactive metal
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
The Inter-American Press Association, or IAPA, one of the region's largest free speech groups, kicks off its semiannual meeting in Caracas on Friday. A day earlier, Chavez backers opened the "Latin American Meeting on Media Terrorism" forum
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The Defense Ministry said Thursday it was investigating whether 66 pounds of uranium found buried by a roadside in southern Bogota was material being sought by leftist rebels