Colombia Extradites Rebel Leader 'Trinidad' to U.S.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia's  largest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at a  Bogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday on  cocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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Venezuela says it is investigating claims that a Colombia rebel leader was seized on its territory.
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President Hugo Chavez says the chief of Colombia's largest rebel group has contacted him as the Venezuelan leader seeks to mediate between the leftist guerrillas and Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
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The suspected head of a Colombian cocaine cartel extradited to the United States to face trial.
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A founder of a Colombian drug cartel that became the world's chief supplier of cocaine in the 1990s was transported to a Florida jail Saturday after being extradited from Colombia.
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An imprisoned rebel leader wanted in the United States on drug trafficking, kidnapping and terror charges said he was innocent and was framed by American agents, but he believed his extradition was imminent, according to media reports Thursday.
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Colombia has extradited to the United States the most notorious drug cartel kingpin in its custody, El Tiempo newspaper reported Saturday.
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Colombian police arrested a suspected top Guatemalan drug trafficker who had fled a Mexican prison by bribing guards while he awaited extradition to the United States, authorities said on Thursday.
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The Colombian police have captured a reputed leader of the drug cartel held responsible for half the cocaine sold in the United States in the 1990s.
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President Alvaro Uribe signed the final order Friday to extradite Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful Colombian trafficker to ever face trial in the United States.
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The chief of international relations for Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group, who once sought support from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was arrested after a months-long manhunt, police said on Wednesday.
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Most of the cocaine that enters the US has passed through the hands of Colombia's Farc rebels, a US official says.
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Colombia extradited a top cocaine trafficker to the United States on Thursday to face trial, hoping that testimony he gives will help dismantle the Andean country's toughest drug cartel.
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Colombia's top court authorises the extradition of two paramilitary leaders and a rebel chief to the US.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Colombian drug kingpins in league with corrupt Venezuelan military officers are increasingly using this country as a way station for smuggling cocaine to the United States and Europe, according to Colombian and U.S. officials. The Bush administration's dismal relations with...
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's president last night approved the extradition from a local prison to the United States of a top leftist guerrilla commander, but said he will halt the order if the guerrillas release 63 high-profile hostages -- including three Americans and a German -- before Dec. 30.
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DRUG kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, has been flown to the United States for trial, becoming the most powerful Colombian trafficker to be extradited to America.