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A deal brokered by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez could pave the way for the liberation of dozens of others being held in rebel camps.
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Colombia attracted a record number of foreign visitors in 2007, as falling violence and increased advertising encouraged travelers to take a chance on the former kidnapping capital of the world
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44 of them — 14 soldiers, 19 police officers, seven politicians, a governor and three U.S. defense contractors — are labeled "political prisoners" available to swap
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Colombia's conservative government last year told the fiery Chavez to drop his negotiations with guerrilla leaders but Chavez insisted and secured the release from a jungle camp of two women politicians
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Colombian guerillas released two prisoners yesterday in a rescue mission organised by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, marking a breakthrough in a decades-long conflict
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President Hugo Chavez defended Colombia's leftist rebels as armies — not terrorists — on Friday, a day after triumphantly mediating the release of two of their hundreds of hostages
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Elvira Forero, head of Colombia's child welfare agency, said Thursday that she spoke with Rojas, who was still in Caracas, and assured her that Colombian authorities were ready to hand over Emmanuel
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His unambiguous support for the group is likely to ratchet up tensions with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe
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The Colombian hostage who gave birth to a baby boy in captivity was expected to be reunited with her son this weekend after her release from a jungle rebel redoubt
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on the US and European governments to stop treating Colombian left-wing rebel groups as terrorists