3 Americans Sought in Colombia
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 10 -- On the eve of a visit by President Bush, the U.S. Embassy confirmed Saturday that American and Colombian soldiers had conducted a joint operation in the southern stronghold of leftist rebels who are holding three U.S. military contractors.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - A gunfight broke out in a church in a cocaine-producing region of southern Colombia, leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded, authorities said Sunday.
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Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers &#151; and luring away active-duty ones &#151; for security jobs in Iraq, according to a former army officer who met with the recruiters.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Troops backed by helicopters searched Sunday for seven Colombian tourists kidnapped by Marxist rebels as they celebrated Christmas at a lakeside spa, authorities said.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe authorized France, Spain and Switzerland on Saturday to revive their efforts to seek an accord with leftist rebels on releasing scores of hostages, including a French-Colombian politician and three Americans.
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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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As America's appetite for coke fades, Guinea Bissau has become a key transit point for Colombia's narcotraffickers with an eye on the growing European market
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Monday said its  peace process with far-right paramilitaries could fail and  ordered an outlaw militia negotiator to be captured and  extradited to the United States for cocaine smuggling.
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Colombia extradited a top leftist rebel to the United States on Friday to face drug and terror charges, an unprecedented move that followed his group's refusal to free dozens of hostages, including three Americans and a German.
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Colombian state prosecutors on Monday ordered the arrest of three soldiers in connection with the killing of union officials accused of being leftist rebels last month, the state prosecution office said.
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BARRANQUILLA, Colombia -- Pedro Luis Daza, a 40-year-old telecommunications technician, dressed up as guerrilla leader Simon Trinidad, who was recently extradited to the United States. One of his two brothers masqueraded as a US Army adviser in Colombia, complete with a realistic-looking rifle. The other posed as a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel who was recently captured in Venezuela.
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The United States sided Saturday with Colombia, its strongest ally in Latin America, over a growing rift between Venezuela and Colombia over Bogota's hiring of bounty hunters to capture a Marxist guerrilla in the Venezuelan capital.
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Three congressmen have sent a letter to the leader of Colombia's largest rebel group welcoming the recent release of "proof-of-life" videos of three Americans held hostage by the guerrillas.
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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  - President Bush was targetedfor assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel groupthis week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena,a top Colombian official said on Saturday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - A commander of Colombia'slargest rebel army was handed over to U.S. authorities at aBogota airport for extradition to the United States Friday oncocaine smuggling and kidnapping charges.
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The United States drop their third in a row for the first time since 2001 as Colombia takes care of the U.S., 1-0, on Thursday night.