After Violence, Colombians Restart Life in Venezuela
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URENA, Venezuela  - Together with his children and  his parents, Luis shares a cramped shack built of tin sheets,  wood and plastic bags on dirt lot where there is no water  supply, no transport and little work.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's far-right  paramilitaries said on Tuesday they will return to peace talks,  despite the death of one of their chief negotiators, who police  said was gunned down by his own men over the weekend.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A top Colombian rebel  captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela,  possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation  of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse  Chacon said on Wednesday.
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Hundreds of Colombian peasants returned home from Ecuador on Thursday after the government promised to protect them from leftist rebels trying to sabotage a coca eradication campaign.
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The homeless in Venezuela's violent capital are heading to shelters for the night or sleeping in groups as safety precautions following the brutal murder of nine vagrants over the past four months.
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PIETRASANTA, Italy  - This quiet Tuscan village is  a world away from the violence-riddled cities of Colombia, but  there's one thing that unexpectedly links them: Fernando  Botero.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 12 -- Clara Rojas, one of two hostages freed Thursday after being held captive for years by Colombian rebels, gave birth to her son nearly four years ago by kitchen-knife Caesarean and has not seen him since he was taken from the jungle at 8 months old.
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Colombian novelist Gabriel  Garcia Marquez returned for the first time in more than 20  years on Wednesday to the home town that inspired him to create  his most famous novel, &quot;100 years of Solitude.&quot;
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SANTA BARBARA, Venezuela -- A whodunit involving two undercover Colombian soldiers whose bodies were found here in western Venezuela has heightened tensions between the neighboring countries and lifted the lid on the dirty little secrets of their border relations.
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Palestinians begin rebuilding their lives in refugee camp flattened by the Lebanese
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More than two dozen Colombian prisoners arrested three years ago in an alleged plot against President Hugo Chavez were freed Saturday in a goodwill gesture he hopes will help facilitate a prisoner exchange in Colombia.
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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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Colombia is back in business and the Andean country has ample room for growth backed by aggressive and transparent government policies but with some challenges
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Five years after catastrophic floods and mudslides killed thousands along Venezuela's Caribbean coast, survivors in this town still see the signs of destruction - shattered concrete walls and tall weeds growing atop streets covered in dried mud.
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BOGOT&#xC1; -- A Colombian Army captain whose family gave him up for dead when he was captured by Marxist guerrillas was rescued in a gun battle yesterday, nearly four years after he went missing.
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Five years after catastrophic floods and mudslides killed thousands along Venezuela's Caribbean coast, survivors in this town still see the signs of destruction &#151; shattered concrete walls and tall weeds growing atop streets covered in dried mud.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 5 -- Just weeks ago, Fernando AraÃÂºjo's only connection to the outside world was his shortwave radio. In six years as a hostage of Marxist rebels, his life had been reduced to a grim routine of forced marches, a diet of soggy beans and rice and the realization that freedom...