DNA test indicates Colombia boy was rebel hostage
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A boy whom Colombian rebels promised to release last week has been living in the country's foster care system since 2005, a source in the attorney general's office said on Friday, citing DNA test results.
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Preliminary DNA tests indicate a 3-year-old foster child is the son of a woman being held captive by leftist rebels, Colombian officials announced Friday.
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A Venezuelan-led mission to rescue three hostages, including a 3-year old boy, from leftist rebels in Colombia's jungles fell apart Monday as the guerrillas accused Colombia's military of sabotaging the promised handoff.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 28 -- President ÃÂlvaro Uribe on Thursday accused Colombia's largest rebel group of killing 11 civilian hostages, just hours after the guerrillas implied that a botched military rescue operation was to blame for the deaths.
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DNA test results today revealed that a boy being used as a bargaining tool by Colombian terrorists was safely living in a BogotÃ¡ foster home and not being held hostage.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe threatens to deport a rebel leader to the US unless hostages are freed.
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Colombian police captured a regional rebel commander suspected of involvement in deadly attacks on government troops and a mass kidnapping in which one hostage died, authorities said Monday.
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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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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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A Colombian woman freed last week after six years as a rebel hostage arrived in Bogota on Sunday and headed for a reunion with her son Emmanuel, born in captivity but now in foster care.
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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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Results of a DNA test on Friday revealed why leftist rebels failed to deliver this week on their promise to free a 3-year-old boy born in captivity: Little Emmanuel has spent the last two years not in a jungle rebel camp, but in a Bogota foster home.
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On April 16, 2004, an urbane lawyer being held hostage in a guerrilla camp deep in the Colombian jungle gave birth to a boy. The child was delivered by Caesarean section performed with a kitchen knife.
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DNA analysis indicates a 3-year-old boy living in a Bogota foster home is the child of a leftist rebel and his captive, a former vice presidential candidate kidnapped nearly six years ago, an official in Colombia's federal prosecutor's office said Friday.
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A Colombian rebel leader was convicted on Monday for conspiring to take hostages in connection with the kidnapping of three American contractors in 2003.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - A mystery over whether acaptured top Colombian Marxist rebel was arrested in Colombiaor kidnapped from neighboring Venezuela is turning into apolitical hot potato for leftist Venezuelan President HugoChavez.
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The same leftist rebels that released two long-held hostages three days ago have kidnapped six people from a tourist group at a remote beach on Colombia's Pacific coast, a spokeswoman for the Colombian navy said Monday.