US coal firm linked to Colombia militias
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The bus had just left Drummond Co. Inc.'s coal mine carrying about 50 workers when gunmen halted it and forced two union leaders off. They shot one on the spot, pumping four bullets into his head, and dragged the other one off to be tortured and killed.
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A Colombian arms broker was charged with trying to buy &#36;4 million in grenade launchers, machine guns, other high-powered weapons and munitions for a leftist rebel group and promising 2 tons of cocaine as partial payment.
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By FRANK BAJAK  BOGOTA, Colombia - A political ally of President Alvaro Uribe is under investigation for allegedly doing business with illegal right-wing militias.
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VERACRUZ, Mexico - A shadowy leftist guerrilla group claimed responsibility for a string of explosions that ripped apart at least six Mexican oil and gas pipelines yesterday, rattling financial markets and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in lost production.
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MIAMI - Boxes of guns fell from the false ceiling of a storage unit, crashed into a toilet and ruptured a water pipe, leading authorities to uncover an alleged plot to sell the weapons to arm opposing sides in Colombia's civil war.    Five defendants from Miami-Dade County pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of firearms sales and exports to Venezuela, where prosecutors say the weapons were to be sold to left-wing Colombian rebels and right-wing paramilitary groups...
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Blackwater USA, the private security company involved in a Baghdad shootout last weekend, operated under State Department authority that exempted the company from U.S. military regulations governing other security firms, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials and industry representatives.
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Believing that Colombia's violence had ebbed, Giovanni Colmenares and his family moved from the United States back to Colombia last year, opened a bar in Bogota and were looking to buy an apartment. But then one day assailants hustled him into a car and put a gun to his head.
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Energy company Harvest Natural Resources encounters problems in Venezuela.
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Colombia's state oil company goes searching for investors -- in supermarkets, gyms and big-box stores
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U.S. defense contractors are receiving nearly half the money allotted by Washington to fight cocaine trafficking and leftist rebels in Colombia, throwing into doubt their mission to train Colombians to replace them.
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The US cites record coca-crop destruction, and major arrests in Colombia. But cocaine flows north unabated.
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A Colombian female guerrilla wanted in the United States for the kidnapping of three Americans and trafficking cocaine has been captured by the army near Venezuela's border, authorities said on Saturday.
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Colombia destroyed around 7,000 land mines on Sunday, in efforts to implement the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of antipersonnel mines, according to local reports.
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By Jason Webb BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia may recover itslong-lost status as a significant gold producer thanks toimproved security and a rebound in prices, which have allowed aCanadian company to reopen a mine troubled by rebels.
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 10  (IPS) - A group of hooded men armed with shotguns  threatened the leader of a small farmersâ organisation and the  delegate of an international human rights organisation in a  northern Argentine province after they reported an incident of  corruption involving both Argentina and Spain.
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The US voices concern at the Colombian government's plans to reach peace deals with illegal armed groups.
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Colombian police say they have arrested a man on a list of the drug-traffickers most wanted by the US. The US says Dagoberto Florez Rios is a member of the Norte del Valle cartel, which is estimated to smuggle