Colombia rebels see role for freed FARC commander
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A Colombian guerrilla released from prison to help broker a deal to free rebel hostages could play a role in verifying troops have been pulled back from any safe haven set up for talks, guerrilla commanders said.
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A Colombian rebel plan to hand over three ailing hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and a Colombian senator is advancing although their release cannot be rushed, a top guerrilla leader said on Monday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The most important commanderof Colombia's largest rebel army ever captured was handed toU.S. authorities at a Bogota airport to be extradited to theUnited States Friday to face cocaine smuggling and kidnappingcharges.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela said on Thursday  it was ready to arrest Colombian rebels found hiding in its  territory as Bogota and Caracas tried to end a stand-off over  the seizure of a Marxist guerrilla leader in Venezuela's  capital.
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Reviving hopes for an exchange of jailed rebels for kidnapping victims, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said his government is prepared to meet with the country&#39;s main guerrilla group about a swap, but said he wants some kidnap
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TIBU, Colombia  - The head of Colombia&#39;s right-wing paramilitary armies asked forgiveness from the United States and from victims in his country&#39;s civil war during a ceremony to demobilize 1,425 fighters.
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Colombia's hardline government said Friday it is willing to meet with members of the country's main leftist rebel group in an unprecedented offer aimed at freeing dozens of rebel-held hostages, including three Americans.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Colombia's Farc rebels have said they are ready to release hostages.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday welcomed Group of Eight nations' support for his initiative to free hostages held by left-wing rebels, but a guerrilla leader he released from prison to try to negotiate a deal warned that any agreement remained elusive.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday he was grateful Venezuela's leader is seeking to win the release of three Americans and other hostages in Colombia, but seemed cautious about raising hopes on the negotiations with leftist rebels.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday Colombian rebels are ready to free two hostages, telling him the location they can be picked up from.
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Colombia on Thursday said it would pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillas to free 72 hostages, including three Americans.
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CARACAS -- 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 yesterday. Through his statement, Venezuela's government appeared to be moving toward asserting that Rodrigo Granda, the foreign relations chief of Colombia's FARC rebel group, was kidnapped in the ...
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Colombia offers to exchange jailed rebels for hostages held by Farc militants - a reversal of earlier policy.
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Colombian Marxist guerrillas have said they will turn over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez just weeks after Bogota ended the leftist leader's efforts to broker the release of rebel captives.
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Colombian security forces arrest a man they say  was in charge of the Farc  guerrillas' international ties.
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The release of two hostages by Colombia's Marxist rebels increases pressure on President Alvaro Uribe to meet guerrilla demands for freeing more captives, but he will likely resist.