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Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
A kidnapping target in her native Colombia, journalist Silvana Paternostro returned there to document life beyond the drug war.
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
Voters in this country narrowly defeated a proposed overhaul to the constitution in a contentious referendum over granting President Hugo Chavez sweeping new powers
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
Yolanda Pulecio, mother of French-Colombian citizen Ingrid Betancourt, said the "only" hope of ending her daughter's nearly six years in the hands of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, was for Chavez to resume his role
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
Lopez, 28, earns about 536,000 pesos ($260) a month from his plot and working as a hired hand. ``This doesn't make you rich, but it's all we've got around here to put food on our table,''
Monday, December 3, 2007 - 00:00
The Bush administration on Monday hailed as a victory for democracy the rare electoral defeat handed to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
A little noticed detail in Colombia’s recent local elections was the fact that leftist parties inspired by Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution have started to emerge on the political scene
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
Use of the sacred coca leaf, respect for water and nature, and other practices of the pre-Columbian Chibcha or Muisca culture survive in Colombia in spite of five centuries under attack
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
A former Colombian presidential candidate, still being held captive by rebels after nearly six years, has said she is "living like the dead", in an emotional letter describing her "animal" life while in the jungle
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
President Chavez said he believed Colombian rebel leader Manuel Marulanda was prepared to release some of the hostages his group is holding, before Colombia's government asked him to stop
Sunday, December 2, 2007 - 00:00
A former presidential candidate held by leftist rebels describes in an emotional letter how she has lost her hair, appetite and hope after nearly six years constantly on the move in Colombia's jungles