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Intensive aerial herbicide spraying of coca crops in Colombia has backfired badly, contributing to the spread of coca cultivation and cocaine production to new areas of the country and threatening human health and the environment
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These humanitarian activities are often preventative in nature, focused at the root cause of ideological extremism, emphasize building a nation's capability for delivering essential services to its own citizens and provide access to regions where traditio
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President Nicolas Sarkozy of France offered on Thursday to personally pick up a woman who has been held by Colombian rebels for six years and whose survival has been thrown into question
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France and the leftist governments of Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador backed his idea to include more nations in the talks
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It was July 20, 2005, when he and Ms. Betancourt decided to risk escape. He had been a prisoner for four years, she for more than three
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FARC guerrillas kidnapped Victor Herrera as he drove to the family's farm more than five years ago. He is one of hundreds of rebel kidnap victims the government says are held for extortion and after years often forgotten
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``Our president has to understand that he doesn't lose anything by recognizing the FARC's political status,'' said Perez
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he was willing to go in person to collect ailing hostage Ingrid Betancourt if she were released by Colombia's FARC guerrillas
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After six years in rebel hands, French-Colombian politician Betancourt is suffering from hepatitis and liver ailments with little medicine to stop her deterioration, said Luis Eladio Perez
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President Nicolas Sarkozy has declared himself ready to go to Colombia to help secure the release of French Colombian citizen Ingrid Betancourt, after hostages released by Marxist guerrillas said that she was being held in “inhuman conditions”