Former Colombian Hostages Weigh Book And Movie Deal Options
Just one week after 15 hostages were freed by Colombian commandos, Hollywood has come knocking. Several potential projects are already taking shape, ...
Just one week after 15 hostages were freed by Colombian commandos, Hollywood has come knocking. Several potential projects are already taking shape, ...
AP | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home
French officials say former hostage Ingrid Betancourt will be awarded the Legion of Honor on Bastille Day. Betancourt -- who was released from six y...
David Paul Appell | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Betancourt has hinted at another run for the top job. If she does, she could become not just one the world's most respected presidents but also a much-needed beacon of hope in Latin America.
Reuters | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
Colombia found explosives set to be used in bombs across the capital in reprisal for this week's rescue of leftist rebels' highest-profile hostages, i...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics
This week FARC got Punk'd; More of the Same McCain got even more so by putting a Rove acolyte at the controls of his campaign; and Condi Rice showed how limited her imagination is, saying the Iraq war has been "tougher than any of us dreamed." Actually, Madame Secretary, many people were wide awake before the war and warned that it would be a nightmare. Of course, Rice has displayed her tragic lack of imagination before, claiming no one "could have predicted" terrorists flying airplanes into buildings before 9/11 despite the fact that, in the words of the 9/11 Commission, such a "possibility was imaginable, and imagined" by multiple government and law enforcement agencies. Perhaps upon her return to Stanford, she can enroll in some imagination expansion courses.
Laura Flanders | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Over 400 hundred labor organizers have been murdered during the Uribe regime alone. And for all those six years Washington has done nothing.
AP | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home
***UPDATED 9:21pm ET -- July 2, 2008*** Colombia - Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing over kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid B...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics
Washington's foreign policy establishment - and much of the U.S. media -- was taken by surprise this week when President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, st...
Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics
Obama's "hope" does not extend beyond our southern border as he too ignores the violation of sovereignty and the human rights atrocities of the Uribe administration in Colombia.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
Washington has alienated Latin America through its economic policy prescriptions, which are widely associated with Latin America's unprecedented long-term economic failure.
John Fund | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics
The simple truth is that the opposition to the Colombian trade agreement -- from the Democratic presidential contenders to Nancy Pelosi -- has nothing to do with reality.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics
Ordinarily, Chavez would not constitute anything more than yet another Latin dictator making hay by tweaking Uncle Sam. But Chavez is more than just an irritant.
Reuters | Hugh Bronstein | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics
When spies spotted a guerrilla chief camped on a jungle riverbank one afternoon late last year, Colombia's army quickly turned to U.S. soldiers to hel...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama had a few choice words for Bill and Hillary Clinton after the South Carolina primary, about people who would "say anything and do anythin...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
It has had the makings of a telenovela - a Latin American soap opera: hostages held for years deep in the Colombian jungle, anxious anticipation and t...
AP | Toby Muse | Posted 12.31.2007 | Entertainment
With its fearsome record of kidnapping and violence, Colombia's largest guerrilla army might seem a nightmare group to encounter. But not to Oliver St...
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Variety | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment