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A cross-border raid into Ecuador to kill a senior Colombian guerrilla was a calculated risk that paid off for President Alvaro Uribe.
Colombian rebel commanders discussed contributing to the election campaign of Ecuador's president and wrote Libya's Moammar Gadhafi asking for $100 million to buy surface-to-air missiles, according to newly published documents.
The surveillance plane's engine quit just as it was about to clear a ridge in Colombia's southern jungle. Miraculously, everyone survived a crash landing. But luck was against the U.S. military contractors aboard.
A showdown loomed Friday for the presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela in this seaside capital as a summit of Latin American leaders aimed to calm a crisis triggered by a deadly Colombian cross-border raid.
Colombia is worried about a document on the laptop of a slain rebel leader indicating the guerrillas were trying to obtain uranium, but has no evidence they intended to use it as a weapon, the vice president said Wednesday.
Files in a laptop computer seized from the wreckage of a Colombian rebel camp in Ecuador offer new insights into Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's desire to undermine Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
A single laptop can reveal much, and so it is with the digital treasure chest that Colombian commandos found in the jungle quarters of slain rebel leader Raul Reyes.
Hundreds of Venezuelan troops moved Tuesday toward the border with Colombia, where trade was slowing amid heightening tension over Colombia's cross-border strike on a rebel base in Ecuador.
Judging by the fever-pitch rhetoric, the Andes region was girding for war on Monday. The leftist presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador recalled ambassadors from Bogota and began moving tanks and troops to reinforce their borders with Colombia.
Documents from a computer seized where Colombian commandos killed a senior rebel leader indicate Ecuador's president is deepening relations with Colombia's main guerrilla group, Colombia's police commander said Sunday.
A newly freed hostage said Thursday that leftist rebels confiscated letters by three U.S. military contractors asking for help from President Bush and other leading American politicians.
On top of tropical ailments, the three U.S. military contractors held by Colombian rebels still suffer injuries from the plane crash five years ago that landed them in guerrilla hands, said a fellow hostage released Wednesday.
A delegation of visiting U.S. union leaders expressed alarm Wednesday at what its members called a steady erosion of labor rights in the world's deadliest country for organized labor.
The U.S. ambassador condemned Colombia's main rebel group as "sick and weak" on the fifth anniversary Wednesday of its seizure of three American military contractors on a surveillance flight.
Consuelo Gonzalez rises before dawn every day, just as she did during the more than six years of crushing boredom and privation she endured as a hostage of Colombia's main leftist rebel army.
A police colonel sacked for abetting one of Colombia's most-wanted drug traffickers should be extradited to the United States as an example, the country's police chief told The Associated Press on Thursday.
President Hugo Chavez's drive to halt food-smuggling into Colombia is hurting thousands of his own countrymen whose livelihood has depended on the free flow of goods across one of South America's most porous borders.
A satchel of letters carried out of the jungle by two women freed by Colombian rebels details the heart-wrenching suffering and depredation of the hostages they left behind.
Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago.
Colombia's defense minister helicoptered into this leftist rebel stronghold with a clutch of U.S. Embassy officials and heavily armed American soldiers to assert emphatically that Latin America's most enduring guerrilla army is on the run.
Humbled by his first electoral defeat, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
Has Hugo Chavez become his own worst enemy?
Twice a day, Elena Quispe draws water from a spigot on the dusty fringe of this city, fills three grimy plastic containers and pushes them in a rickety wheelbarrow to the adobe home she shares with her husband and eight children.
In a new feature film about his journey from dirt-poor sheep herder to Bolivia's president, Evo Morales is portrayed being beaten unconscious by anti-narcotics police and found the next day by fellow coca union leaders.
This Andean highlands capital has twice felled famed hacker and security consultant Kevin Mitnick. "I'm looking forward to getting on the first plane to the United States," Mitnick said Wednesday from his hospital room.
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