Politician Accused Of Planning Guerrilla Kidnappings That Led To Murder
BOGOTA, Colombia — Even Colombians accustomed to treachery and deceit after more than a half-century of civil conflict and drug violence were st...
BOGOTA, Colombia — Even Colombians accustomed to treachery and deceit after more than a half-century of civil conflict and drug violence were st...
Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012
* Rebels accuse government of manipulating the media * French reporter seized while with Colombian troops BOGOTA, May 7 ...
AP | FRANK BAJAK and VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 05.07.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main rebel group says it is holding a French journalist who has been missing since disappearing a week ago while c...
Eva Smets | Posted 04.11.2012
Disregarding official orders, members of the Colombian army turn schools into barracks where they sleep, steal food from cafeterias and invite children to take helicopter rides and to visit military camps.
AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 04.03.2012
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia — Colombia's main rebel group on Monday freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, returning the ...
AP | Posted 05.21.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian troops have killed 39 rebels, most of them in a bombardment of a guerrilla camp, the defense minister said Wednesda...
AP | Posted 05.21.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian troops have killed 39 rebels, most of them in a bombardment of a guerrilla camp, the defense minister said Wednesda...
AP | By LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 03.03.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Sgt. Luis Alfonso Beltran has endured 14 years of jungle prisons as a captive of leftist rebels while three of his aunts and uncle...
AP | By LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 12.27.2011
BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian rebels on Tuesday announced plans to release six hostages who have been held captive for more than a decade. The Revolu...
AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 01.29.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main leftist rebel group is blaming President Juan Manuel Santos' government for the weekend deaths of four securi...
AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.28.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — The Colombian police sergeant who saved himself when leftist rebels killed four fellow captives said Monday that he ran for h...
Jack Leslie | Posted 01.09.2012
Before dinner started, President Santos pulled me aside, and in a hushed but excited tone, told me that he was "95 percent sure" that his military forces had a few hours earlier killed Alfonso Cano, the leader of FARC and Colombia's most wanted terrorist.
AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.05.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — Alfonso Cano was a bespectacled middle-class intellectual who rose from chief ideologist to maximum leader of the Revolutiona...
AP | LIBARDO CARDONA AND CESAR GARCIA | Posted 01.04.2012
BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday called on fighters of Latin America's only major rebel force to accept the killing o...
HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.12.2011
NEW YORK -- Surface-to-air missiles. Armor-piercing rockets. Sniper rifles. Plastic explosives by the ton. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military of...
AOLLatino.com | Posted 11.26.2011
'Infiltrados' (Infiltrated) is the first documentary produced by the new Documentales Univision (Univision Documentaries), a new unit of Univision New...
Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 08.24.2011
Recently, a global transition to a more diffuse distribution of economic power is broadly recognized, pointing to a shift in the balance of global growth from rich to low- and middle- income economies. Colombia may be a prime example of this trend.
Milburn Line | Posted 07.27.2011
Armed forces are accused of murdering 2,547 civilians and presenting them as combat kills; there are now 27,000 forced disappearances in Colombia
AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 05.25.2011
BOGOTA, Colombia — A brutal drug lord with a $2.5 million bounty on his head and reputed ties to right-wing militias died during clashes with se...
AP | RODRIGO ALMONACID | Posted 05.25.2011
BOGOTA, Colombia — Not until Johan Steven Martinez began school at age 4 did he learn why he had never met his father. "I realized that all my ...
Laura Carlsen | Posted 05.25.2011
Clinton's allusion to Plan Colombia, an anti-narcotics initiative most distinguished for its contributions to human rights violations, sparked a minor uproar in Mexico. But the only surprising thing may be that she uttered it out loud.
Kelly Nicholls | Posted 05.25.2011
On July 22 around 800 people came to the Macarena to tell an international delegation from the U.S. and Europe of the abuses they have suffered, many allegedly at the hands of the armed forces.
Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011
The desecration of Simon Bolivar's tomb is as shocking as anything Hugo Chavez has ever done.
Gabriel Elizondo | Posted 05.25.2011
Morris' work has led him to uncover evidence of atrocities potentially committed by actors of the state. His reporting has often thrown doubt on official government positions few other journalists seem dare to challenge.
Thor Halvorssen | Posted 05.25.2011
Venezuela has carried out more than 800 expropriations across industries and involving all sorts of property. Hugo Chavez must be revealed as the petty authoritarian and enemy of individual rights that he is.
AP | LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 05.20.2012