Colombian president defends military
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Colombia's president took over the country's airwaves Sunday to defend the military against reports soldiers were behind a string of bombings.
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The government has defended a photograph published on the foreign office website showing a junior minister smiling with a Colombian army unit accused of links with private paramilitary squads, after criticism from rights campaigners on Monday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 17 -- The government of President ÃÂlvaro Uribe is being shaken by its most serious political crisis yet, as details emerge about members of Congress who collaborated with right-wing death squads to spread terror and exert political control across Colombia's Caribbean coast.
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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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Armed forces chief Gen. Carlos Alberto Ospina downplayed bloody attacks by Marxist guerrillas that have killed 28 Colombian soldiers this week, saying Thursday the rebels were retreating from successful military operations.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 16 -- U.S. support for Colombia has been a foregone conclusion under the administration of President ÃÂlvaro Uribe, who was elected in 2002. But with a widening scandal tying the president's close supporters to paramilitary groups, policymakers on Capitol Hill say skepticism of...
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BOGOTA -- Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines yesterday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan, and dozens of mine blast victims watched on large screens, launching an effort aimed at ridding the country of the weapons.
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Colombian rebels blame military operations for blocking the release of hostages, Venezuela's president says.
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LLANOGRANDE, Colombia  - Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe told visiting U.S. lawmakers on Saturday his government's record illustrated it was addressing Democrats' concerns over anti-union violence and impunity that have stymied their approval of a free trade deal.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday that Colombia's long guerrilla war had no military solution and peace talks would only prosper when rebel armies there were labeled insurgents, not terrorists.
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 11 -- President Hugo ChÃÂ¿vez took the side of rebels in neighboring Colombia's decades-old civil conflict Friday, calling the guerrillas "true armies" and urging the international community to stop considering them terrorists.
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Colombian right-wing paramilitary commander Salvatore Mancuso testifies before a special tribunal.
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In an exclusive interview with TIME, the Venezuelan leader defends his harsh rhetoric - and adds some more
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accuses Farc rebels of killing politicians they were holding captive last week.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe asks donors to help fund a process to disarm right-wing guerrillas.
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BOGOT&#xC1; -- The Colombian government, the recipient of billions of dollars in US aid to fight drugs and a leftist insurgency, is under siege as evidence mounts of links between right-wing death squads and dozens of officials loyal to President &#xC1;lvaro Uribe.