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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
The lawyer for a right-wing Colombian warlord donned scuba diving gear on Tuesday to confront the nation's prison authority for imprisoning his client on a ship
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
Wearing scuba fins, a snorkel and a diving mask, a lawyer for a feared paramilitary warlord walked into Colombia's prison agency Tuesday to protest its decision to send his client to an oceangoing jail cell
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
Colombia's largest rebel group refuses to budge on its demand for a New York City-size demilitarized zone as a precondition for talks on exchanging some of its hostages for guerrilla prisoners
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
The bodyguard business is booming in this northern Colombian city plastered with posters of rival political candidates, mostly tough-looking men with hard eyes and forced smiles
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is acting as a mediator in Colombia's hostage crisis, said Tuesday that leftist rebels insist that the Colombian government create a demilitarized zone for a prisoner swap
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
Colombia's interior minister slammed a U.S. judge's approval of a US$25 million (€18 million) fine for Chiquita Brands International Inc.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
A former Roman Catholic bishop running for president of Paraguay said Tuesday his opposition coalition has split over a dispute with factions allied with a former coup plotter
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
Washington's 45-year-old embargo has cost Cuba more than $89 billion to date, wreaking havoc on everything from primary education to pest control and nearly all other facets of island life, the foreign minister said
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
U.S. exports to Cuba are strictly limited to agricultural products, but that can mean everything from wooden telephone poles to M&M'S
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - 00:00
Washington's 45-year-old embargo has cost Cuba more than $89 billion to date, wreaking havoc on everything from primary education to pest control and nearly all other facets of island life, the foreign minister said