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Colombia Bomb Attack Kills At Least 6

AP | CARLOS JULIO MARTINEZ | Posted 02.02.2012 | World

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VILLA RICA, Colombia — Assailants in pickup trucks fired homemade mortars at a police station in this western town Thursday, killing at least si...

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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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FARC Executes 4 Men After Holding Hostage For Over 12 Years

AP | By FRANK BAJAK | Posted 11.26.2011 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Colombia's main rebel group executed four of its longest-held captives during combat Saturday between guerrillas and soldiers sear...

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FARC Names New Chief

AP | LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 01.15.2012 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's main rebel group announced Tuesday that it has named a successor to its leader, who was killed in combat this mont...

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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

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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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Notorious Russian Arms Dealer Convicted in New York

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 01.02.2012 | World

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NEW YORK -- In March 2008, former Soviet military officer Viktor Bout stood in a Bangkok hotel lobby, waiting for an elevator with an avowed member o...

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

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.12.2011 | Crime

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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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What Happens When Millennials Come Together

David D. Burstein | Posted 12.10.2011 | College

Read More: Oscar Morales, Social Impact, Summit, Globalization, Millennial Generation, Facebook, Conference, Wael Ghonim, Global, Cairo, David D. Burstein, Egypt, Colombia, Millennials, Generation, Farc, Technology, One Young World, College News

We're the first generation to spend all of our grown years in a world where connecting to people from all over the world, instantly and constantly, seems normal and natural.

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Interview: Jorge Ramos Discusses FARC Documentary 'Infiltrados'

AOLLatino.com | Posted 11.26.2011 | Latino Voices

Read More: Cultura, Farc, Colombia FARC, Jorge Ramos, Latino Voices News

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

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Former President Alvaro Uribe Makes His Presence Felt In Colombia

AP | By VIVIAN SEQUERA and LIBARDO CARDONA | Posted 11.18.2011 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Presidents typically quit the limelight when their terms end, ease into contemplative repose, perhaps pen a memoir, and stay out o...

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Police Bust Panama Cocaine Ring Responsible For Moving 18 Tons of Cocaine In Two Years

AP | Posted 11.06.2011 | World

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PANAMA CITY -- Authorities in Panama say they have broken up a major cocaine trafficking organization that moved drugs from Colombia to Panama and the...

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Get Cuba off the List of State Sponsors of Terror

Sarah Stephens | Posted 10.24.2011 | World

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It is both untrue and a travesty to paint Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism as the United States government did in its annual report on the subject last week.

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The U.S. Must Work for Peaceful Resolution to Colombian Armed Conflict

Dan Kovalik | Posted 09.04.2011 | World

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While the mainstream press has been silent on the issue, there is a growing movement in Colombia for a peaceful settlement of the decades-long civil w...

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Colombia's Economic Problems and Prospects

Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 08.24.2011 | World

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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.

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The Unanswered Questions Surrounding the U.S.-Colombia FTA

Kelly Nicholls | Posted 08.22.2011 | World

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Bowing to pressure, the Obama administration is pushing the FTA forward with little consideration of its potential impacts on marginalized and impoverished sectors of Colombian society.

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Beyond Free Trade with Colombia

Milburn Line | Posted 07.27.2011 | World

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Armed forces are accused of murdering 2,547 civilians and presenting them as combat kills; there are now 27,000 forced disappearances in Colombia

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Drug War Trumps Free Trade in Colombia

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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Renewal of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act is critical if the Obama administration is to maintain its strategic alliance with the world's largest grower of coca leaves.

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Another Lonely Christmas For Columbia's Longest-Held Hostage

AP | RODRIGO ALMONACID | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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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 ...

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WikiLeaks: FBI Now Keeping Tabs on Native Americans -- in South America?

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Fbi, Michelle Bachelet, Wikileaks, Chile-Mapuche, Chile, Hugo Chavez, Santiago Paul Simons, Mapuche Indians, Eta, Farc, World News

Historic FBI shenanigans committed against Native Americans are well known. But WikiLeaks documents now reveal that the they have their sights set on indigenous peoples farther afield as well.

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Rats & Land Mines: Colombia Teaches Rodents To Sniff Out Explosives

The Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: South America, Columbia Army, Columbia Farc, Mine Field, Bombs, Columbia, Exterminators, Pests, Rats, Farc, Land Mines, Animals, Service Animals, Land Mine Removal, Rodents, Green News

Early next year, anti-narcotics police will begin deploying squads of rats to sniff out land mines in remote areas of Colombia where leftist rebels an...

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Death Of Top FARC Rebel Leader A 'Crushing Blow'

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Read More: Jorge Briceno, Mono Jojoy, Mono Jojoy Killed, Farc, Jorge Briceno Killed, Colombia, World News

BOGOTA, Colombia — The powerful rebel comandante who Colombian officials say died in the bombing of a clandestine jungle camp was nicknamed "Mono Jo...

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Colombian Military Kills Top FARC Rebel Leader

AP | FRANK BAJAK | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's military killed the No. 2 leader and top military strategist of the country's main rebel army in blistering bombar...

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