Colombia Wants to Use Cyberspace for Contacts with Rebels
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Government hopes to negotiate an exchange of jailed rebels for politicians, police and U.S. military contractors being held by the Net-savvy insurgents.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has offered to release 50 insurgents accused of minor crimes in exchange for an equal number of hostages in rebel hands, including three Americans, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian Marxist rebels kept  up pressure on the government to release imprisoned guerrillas,  releasing a videotape of 12 former congressmen they kidnapped  30 months ago and want to swap for their comrades.
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Marxist rebels tried to organize an assassination attempt on President Bush during his visit to the port city of Cartagena last week, a top Colombian official said Saturday.
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Colombian government officials said Friday they need support from the international community to assist in the planned demobilization of thousands of right-wing paramilitary fighters.
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government yesterday, its biggest step toward peace since Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.
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President Alvaro Uribe&#039;s government is lobbying to restrict a U.N. agency that has been the most trusted monitor of human rights violations in Colombia, according to foreign diplomats and rights activists.
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Colombia's president is ready to hold talks to try to end a diplomatic row with Venezuela, an aide says.
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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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SAN VICENTE DEL CAGUAN, Colombia -- Marxist rebels once ran a visitors center in this town in southern Colombia, the office staffed by a young, amiable female guerrilla and the walls decorated with huge posters of famed fighters. Rebels ran a court, built bridges and taxed locals, including the f...
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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Colombia's Alvaro Uribe on Monday to press for action to free hostages held by leftist rebels, including French-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt who has become a cause celebre in France.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe met relatives of French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt on Sunday at the start of a tour aimed at rekindling European efforts to help release hostages held by Colombian rebels.
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A Colombian grandfather to the children of a U.S. defense contractor held by leftist rebels offered Saturday to take his place in captivity, saying the man's twin four-year-olds should finally meet their father.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian Marxist rebels keptup pressure on the government to release imprisoned guerrillas,releasing a videotape of 12 former congressmen they kidnapped30 months ago and want to swap for their comrades.
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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 on Sunday he was "open for dialogue" with rebels holding scores of hostages in the jungle, after an offer by the Catholic Church to help create a safe haven for talks.
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Colombia's Roman Catholic clergy say they are in contact with Farc rebels in a bid to free more hostages.