http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Colombia & FARC 60 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:33:18 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1218573.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1218573.html Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:37 EDT Olga Lucía Castillo could never bring to justice the men who raped her in Bogotá when she was pregnant with her daughter. Twelve years later, she is putting up the fight of her life to have a U.S. Army officer and a Mexican-born contractor indicted because, according to her, they raped her daughter at the military base in Melgar. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1139341.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1139341.html Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:19 EDT Ecuador today will begin imposing stiff tariffs on hundreds of Colombian imports, the latest round in a festering dispute between the neighbors. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1072113.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1072113.html Fri, 29 May 2009 15:33 EDT The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the oldest and strongest terrorist group in North or South America, turns 45 this week -- that's 45 years of kidnappings, murders, bombings and drug trafficking. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1057063.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1057063.html Wed, 20 May 2009 08:06 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1053707.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/1053707.html Mon, 18 May 2009 07:47 EDT For weeks after the news broke, Colombians knew only that the secret police had spied on Supreme Court judges, opposition politicians, activists and journalists. Suspicions swirled that the orders for the wiretapping, as well as general surveillance, had come from the presidential palace. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/963414.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/963414.html Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:40 EDT What happened in northwestern Colombia more than a decade ago might easily have been forgotten. Illegal militias forced poor black farmers off their land, which politically connected businessmen then seized http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/951779.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/951779.html Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:50 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/940780.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/940780.html Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:51 EDT 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/932061.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/932061.html Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:30 EST The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instability in the African nation. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/920972.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/920972.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:32 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/902752.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/902752.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:33 EST Aware that law enforcement agencies of poor West African nations are no match for drug cartels using the region as a major transit hub, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the European Commission have launched a program to offer training in operations and intelligence gathering, as well as the chance to network with agents from other countries. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/899217.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/899217.html Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:14 EST Human rights groups Tuesday called on the Colombian government to investigate the disappearance and slayings of members of an indigenous community in southwestern Colombia. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/888265.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/888265.html Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:08 EST The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has funded its war against the government with drug trafficking and kidnappings for ransom, has released four hostages: three police officers and a soldier. Two more are to be released in coming days, according to a senior rebel leader, as a gesture of goodwill. But the time for gestures is long past. If the FARC's aim is political credibility, it needs to demonstrate a complete rejection of lawless behavior and release the hundreds of other captives it still holds in the jungle. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/862406.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/862406.html Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:20 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/845472.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/845472.html Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:04 EST 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.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/801018.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/801018.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:39 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/787739.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/787739.html Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:37 EST 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. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/778791.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/778791.html Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:21 EST 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.<br> http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/764825.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/764825.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:57 EST For months the sometimes headless bodies, cut up by chain-saws, washed up on the banks of the muddy Cauca River. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/753929.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/colombia/story/753929.html Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:30 EST Inquiry finds the Colombian army killed slum dwellers, then said bodies were those of guerrillas<br>