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Colombia: Seeking A Peaceful Future (PHOTOS)

Christian Fuchs | Posted 04.23.2013 | Impact

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Colombian refugees and internally displaced people are the frequently forgotten victims of a 50-year-long conflict between paramilitaries, guerillas, and the Colombian military and security forces.

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Colombia, Rebels Hope Rising Trust Can Yield Peace

AP | PAUL HAVEN | Posted 12.17.2012 | Latino Voices

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HAVANA -- While the angry rhetoric and bombs continue to fly back home, Colombian rebels and government negotiators in peace talks in the Cuban capita...

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Colombia Refuses To Honor Cease-Fire, Bombs FARC Camps

AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 02.02.2013 | Latino Voices

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's military said Monday that it killed at least 20 Revolutionary Armed Forces insurgents in a weekend air raid on a c...

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Historic Colombian Peace Talks Launched

AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 12.18.2012 | World

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HURDAL, Norway — Colombia's first peace talks in a decade were inaugurated Thursday a half world away with a demonstration of just how widely th...

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FARC Shows Faith in Peace Talks

AP | ANDREA RODRIGUEZ | Posted 09.08.2012 | World

HAVANA -- After nearly five decades of violent struggle and failed attempts at detente, there is plenty of mistrust and bad blood between Colombia's g...

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Colombia And Rebel Group Reach Preliminary Agreement

AP | Posted 11.04.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos announced on Tuesday a preliminary accord with Colombia's main leftist rebel group to launch pea...

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Film Review of We Women Warriors: Tejiendo Sabiduria

Vanessa Perez | Posted 10.09.2012 | Latino Voices

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In Nicole Karsin's debut documentary weaving provides a metaphor for the unity between indigenous people in Colombia whose communities and lands are threatened by violence and armed conflict.

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Freed French Reporter Says He'll Stay In Colombia

AP | Posted 07.31.2012 | Media

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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The French journalist newly freed by Colombian rebels says he has no plans to leave the conflict-scarred South American coun...

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Still No Peace In Colombia (PHOTOS)

Christian Fuchs | Posted 07.29.2012 | Impact

Read More: Colombia FARC, Colombia, Slideexpand, Refugeeds, Internally Displaced Persons, Slidefreestyle, Plan Colombia, Impact News

Colombian refugees and internally displaced people are the frequently forgotten victims of the nearly 50-year-long conflict between paramilitaries, guerillas, and the Colombian military and security forces.

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Politician Accused Of Planning Guerrilla Kidnappings That Led To Murder

AP | LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 07.20.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Even Colombians accustomed to treachery and deceit after more than a half-century of civil conflict and drug violence were st...

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Colombia Rebels Make Demand For Release Of Kidnapped Reporter

Reuters | Posted 07.07.2012 | Media

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* Rebels accuse government of manipulating the media * French reporter seized while with Colombian troops BOGOTA, May 7 ...

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Romeo Langlois: Colombia's FARC Rebels Says Their Holding French Reporter

AP | FRANK BAJAK and VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 07.07.2012 | Media

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...

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Threats in the Classroom: Teachers Protect Students in the Midst of Colombia's War

Eva Smets | Posted 06.11.2012 | Impact

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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.

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Reports: Rebels Free Hostages After 12 Years

AP | CESAR GARCIA | Posted 06.02.2012 | World

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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia — Colombia's main rebel group on Monday freed what it says were its last 10 military and police captives, returning the ...

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Colombian Military Bombs FARC Rebels

AP | Posted 05.21.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian troops have killed 39 rebels, most of them in a bombardment of a guerrilla camp, the defense minister said Wednesda...

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Colombian Military Bombs FARC Rebels

AP | Posted 05.21.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombian troops have killed 39 rebels, most of them in a bombardment of a guerrilla camp, the defense minister said Wednesda...

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Colombia's FARC Announces Release Of Prisoners

AP | By LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 03.03.2012 | Latino Voices

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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...

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Colombian Rebels Set To Release 6 Hostages

AP | By LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 12.27.2011 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombian rebels on Tuesday announced plans to release six hostages who have been held captive for more than a decade. The Revolu...

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FARC Blames Government For Executions

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 01.29.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main leftist rebel group is blaming President Juan Manuel Santos' government for the weekend deaths of four securi...

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Colombian FARC Survivor 'Ran For It' In Dramatic Escape

AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.28.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — The Colombian police sergeant who saved himself when leftist rebels killed four fellow captives said Monday that he ran for h...

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Courage and Common Ground

Jack Leslie | Posted 01.09.2012 | World

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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.

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Profile: Alfonso Cano

AP | VIVIAN SEQUERA | Posted 01.05.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Alfonso Cano was a bespectacled middle-class intellectual who rose from chief ideologist to maximum leader of the Revolutiona...

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Top Leader Of Colombia's Main Rebel Group Killed, Say Authorities

AP | LIBARDO CARDONA AND CESAR GARCIA | Posted 01.04.2012 | World

BOGOTA, Colombia — President Juan Manuel Santos on Saturday called on fighters of Latin America's only major rebel force to accept the killing o...

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Trial of Russian 'Merchant of Death' Begins in New York

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.12.2011 | Crime

NEW YORK -- Surface-to-air missiles. Armor-piercing rockets. Sniper rifles. Plastic explosives by the ton. Viktor Bout, a former Soviet military of...

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Interview: Jorge Ramos Discusses FARC Documentary 'Infiltrados'

AOLLatino.com | Posted 11.26.2011 | Latino Voices

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'Infiltrados' (Infiltrated) is the first documentary produced by the new Documentales Univision (Univision Documentaries), a new unit of Univision New...

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