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Last of seven fake cheerleaders from Colombia sentenced in Miami
Nine adults and seven juveniles, posing as a visiting cheerleading team from Colombia, have little to cheer about now.
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Guerrillas suspended the release of six hostages and were accused of a lethal bombing in the Colombian port town of Tumaco.
Nine adults and seven juveniles, posing as a visiting cheerleading team from Colombia, have little to cheer about now.
Drug trade isn’t the economic driver many suspected, according to the report.
In one of his first interviews since escaping from Colombia’s rebels after 12 years, Luis Alberto Erazo described his narrow escape.
A lawsuit filed in Miami federal court is the first in the nation to accuse a convicted Colombian paramilitary leader and drug trafficker of committing violent acts against people in his homeland.
As Colombia keeps ratcheting up pressure on the FARC guerrillas, it’s rolling out a new ad campaign designed to stem the flow of child recruits.
While the future of U.S. manned space flight in doubt, one Colombian is coming back from ‘Mars.’
Ecuador today will begin imposing stiff tariffs on hundreds of Colombian imports, the latest round in a festering dispute between the neighbors.
Authorities in neighboring Colombia contend that the Ecuadorean border town of Puerto Nuevo is the thriving nerve center for an elite Colombian rebel unit that helps keep a 44-year-old insurgency alive by trafficking cocaine through Ecuador's ports.
Whether they criticize President Uribe or his opponents, bloggers from Bogotá and other cities employ irreverent humor—borrowing from the British and Argentine traditions—to illustrate Colombia's political tensions. “Behind the liberty that their pseudonyms give them, (the bloggers) loosen the reins of their political passions," the weekly magazine Semana says.
Programs that help former FARC rebels and paramilitary troops reenter society is seen as crucial to the nation's long-term peace. The U.S. is on board, checkbook in hand.
The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instability in the African nation.
El ex director de Inteligencia del Ejército ecuatoriano Mario Pazmiño confirmó hoy a Efe que informes y fotografías que señalaban la presencia de la estudiante mexicana Lucía Morett en varios campamentos de las FARC el año pasado están documentados en la Dirección de Inteligencia Militar.
Human rights groups Tuesday called on the Colombian government to investigate the disappearance and slayings of members of an indigenous community in southwestern Colombia.
Colombian military officials say the 20% increase in FARC desertions last year from the 2007 level is compelling evidence of their increasing battlefield dominance over the FARC, which the military has been fighting for more than 40 years.
Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos will meet with Barack Obama soon after inauguration to try to persuade him to continue Plan Colombia, the $556-million-a-year U.S. aid plan. He discusses the case he will make.
Renowned as Colombia's most violent city, Buenaventura is on the front line of Colombia's drug war, a choke point for lucrative cocaine smuggling routes up the Pacific Coast.
This sweltering market town on Venezuela's southwestern frontier has its own mayor, council and police force. It also has a parallel government of sorts - a group of Communist guerrillas from the neighboring country of Colombia.
Aerial spraying is still the preferred method of coca eradication in Colombia, but the use of manual laborers is expanding. Many take the dangerous job because of good wages; some have more personal reasons.
For months the sometimes headless bodies, cut up by chain-saws, washed up on the banks of the muddy Cauca River.