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Friday, October 5, 2007 - 00:00
Crop seizures and drug trafficking are on the rise, raising fears that the narcotics curse in neighboring Peru and Colombia is spreading
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
Venezuela's foreign minister, a critic of U.S. foreign policy, held his first formal meeting yesterday with the top U.S. diplomat for the region and said the two may talk again
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday publicly denied accusations that he befriended and helped a world-renowned drug kingpin in the 1980s
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
A meeting at which Venezuela President Hugo Chavez and Colombian rebels were to discuss an exchange of prisoners has been postponed indefinitely
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has endorsed the efforts by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez to negotiate the release of hundreds of hostages
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is resisting American pressure to authorise a major programme of crop spraying
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
Congressmen in Ecuador say President Rafael Correa's plans to replace parliament with an assembly run by his supporters is an attack on democracy
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
Venezuela and the United States are on speaking terms to seek the release of three American hostages in Colombia, but an imminent thawing in relations is unlikely
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
President Hugo Chavez accused the U.S. on Wednesday of trying to spur a military rebellion, saying the CIA is behind the distribution of leaflets inside army barracks calling for his ouster
Thursday, October 4, 2007 - 00:00
Colombia's navy on Tuesday seized 2 tons of cocaine, most destined for the United States, in small packages labeled with the British flag