Associated Press
Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 00:00
Relatives of the captives brought the socialist leader a sealed letter from their loved ones, carried out of the jungle by the two recently freed hostages
Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 00:00
U.S. Congressman William Delahunt showed his support for Venezuelan efforts to free rebel-held hostages in Colombia, and agreed in a meeting Friday with President Hugo Chavez that Caracas and Washington need a new relationship
Saturday, January 19, 2008 - 00:00
There's no campaigning and just one party, so the only mystery is whether Castro will retire
Friday, January 18, 2008 - 00:00
The United States is deeply worried by what it deems a dangerous arms buildup by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, the top American military officer said
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:00
FLIR Systems Inc., which makes imaging products, said Tuesday it received a $13 million order for thermal sensors from the Colombian Ministry of Defense
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:00
The letters from eight captive politicians, police officers and soldiers describe being chained by the neck, and suffering from malaria, tropical parasites, heart ailments and diarrhea so severe that one captive couldn't walk
Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 00:00
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday shrugged off Colombia's criticism that he ignored crimes committed by that nation's guerrillas when he urged world leaders to stop classifying them as terrorists
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
Gutierrez said the administration hopes Congress will take them up in the order that they were signed starting with Colombia and followed by Panama
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
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
Monday, January 14, 2008 - 00:00
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