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Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called Friday for Europe to remove from its list of terrorist organizations two Colombian groups -- including FARC, the group that freed two hostages
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
The release of two hostages by Colombia's Marxist rebels increases pressure on President Alvaro Uribe to meet guerrilla demands for freeing more captives, but he will likely resist
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
The dynamics for the prisoner exchange have not really changed
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
They blamed each other and fell out over the failed attempt while the guerrillas disciplined them by throwing snakes, tarantulas and even a dead tiger into their bunks
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
These are the invisible women thrown into prison on charges of "rebellion", many of them merely because they live in rebel-controlled areas
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
Colombia has long received significant assistance from the United States, primarily for counternarcotics, but the paramilitary scandals have prompted legislative scrutiny of this aid, as well as of a proposed free trade agreement
Friday, January 11, 2008 - 00:00
Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 00:00
The author of a new book will speak Thursday at the University of Miami about problems in the Cuban healthcare system.
Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 00:00
Indigenous and black communities of Colombia's north-western department of Choco are trying to recover their lands and food sources, lost to the decades-long civil war