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Former Colombian Hostages Weigh Book And Movie Deal Options

Variety | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Ingrid Betancourt Movie Deal, Ingrid Betancourt Hollywood, Ingrid Betancourt Released, Farc, Colombian Hostage, Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell, Colombian Hostage Movie, Marc Gonsalves, Entertainment News

Just one week after 15 hostages were freed by Colombian commandos, Hollywood has come knocking. Several potential projects are already taking shape, ...

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Betancourt Rescue Footage Released (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 07.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Colombia Rescue Video, Farc Rescue Operation Video, Farc Raid, Betancourt Rescue Video, Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia, Farc Rescue Operation, Farc, Colombia Betancourt Rescue, Home News

French officials say former hostage Ingrid Betancourt will be awarded the Legion of Honor on Bastille Day. Betancourt -- who was released from six y...

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Ingrid for President / Ingrid Para Presidenta

David Paul Appell | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: President Uribe, Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Colombian Hostage, Colombia, Mccain Uribe, Mccain Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt, Ingrid Betancourt Reunited, Uribe, Alvaro Uribe, ÁLvaro Uribe, Alvaro Uribe Government, Chavez FARC, Colombia FARC, Farc, Plan Colombia, FARC Guerillas, FARC Guerrillas, Farc Hostages, Politics News
David Paul Appell

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.

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Colombia Foils Bomb Plot After High-Profile Hostage Rescue

Reuters | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Colombia Hostage Rescue, Colombia, Colombia Hostages, Farc, Politics News

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...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Condoleeza Rice, 9/11 Commission, John McCain, Condi Rice, Farc, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

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.

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The F Word: Celebration in Colombia? Not so Fast

Laura Flanders | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Grittv, Flanders, John McCain, Farc, Colombia, Colombian Hostage, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Over 400 hundred labor organizers have been murdered during the Uribe regime alone. And for all those six years Washington has done nothing.

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Colombia Rescues Ingrid Betancourt, Americans From FARC

AP | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Colombian Presidential Candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Us Hostages Rescued Colombia, Farc Hostages, Ingrid Betancourt, Colombia, Farc Us Hostages, Farc, Us Military Contractors, Home News

***UPDATED 9:21pm ET -- July 2, 2008*** Colombia - Colombian spies tricked leftist rebels into handing over kidnapped presidential candidate Ingrid B...

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Gap Between Latin America and Washington Still Growing

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Interpol, Colombia, Latin America, Farc, Hugo Chavez, Latin America Policy, Uribe, FARC Manuel Marulanda, Media Coverage of Latin America, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

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...

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In the Bush White House, "Laptop" is Spanish for "WMD"

Roberto Lovato | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Venezuela, Latin America Policy, Farc, Colombian Death Squads, Colombia, Media Coverage of Latin America, HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS, Alvaro Uribe Government, U.S. Policy in Latin America, Interpol, Politics News
Roberto Lovato

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.

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Bush Administration, More Isolated in Latin America, Cries "Terrorism"

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ecuador, Hugo Chavez, Cuban Americans, Latin America, Venezuela, Terrorism, Bush Administration, Farc, New York Times, Chavez, Colombia, George W Bush, Florida Primary, Republicans, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

Washington has alienated Latin America through its economic policy prescriptions, which are widely associated with Latin America's unprecedented long-term economic failure.

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A Test for Democrats on Foreign Policy

John Fund | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chavez, Latin America, Trade, Politics, Mark Penn Fired, Free Trade Agreements, Hillary Clinton Mark Penn, Colombia Free Trade, Colombia, Free Trade, Farc, Mark Penn, Mark Penn Colombia, Politics News
John Fund

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.

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Meanwhile, South of the Border

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ecuador, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Raul Reyes, Farc, Rafael Correa, Terrorist Groups, Columbia, Chavez Hezbollah, Hezbollah, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

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.

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U.S. Soldiers Help War Against Rebels In Colombia

Reuters | Hugh Bronstein | Posted 02.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Farc, Warwire, Colombia, Afghanistan War, Colombian Cocaine, Politics News

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...

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Latin America News Coverage: Half the Story is Worse Than None

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latin America, Bolivia, Venezuela, Press, Colombia, Farc, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

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...

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Hostage Drama Shows Flaws in Washington's Policy on Colombia

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ingrid Betancourt, Chavez, Colombia, Latin America, Farc, Hostage Drama, Uribe, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

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...

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Oliver Stone Helicoptering Into Jungle On Hostage-Release Mission

AP | Toby Muse | Posted 12.31.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Hugo Chavez, Oliver Stone, FARC, Entertainment News

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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