Colombia political scandal widens
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Colombian orders the arrest of an ex-minister's father, as a political scandal over alleged militia links widens.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President AlvaroUribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over thecovert of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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CARACAS -- A mystery over whether a captured top Colombian Marxist rebel was arrested in Colombia or kidnapped from neighboring Venezuela is turning into a political hot potato for leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
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The political scandal that forced Colombia's foreign minister to quit and put other close allies of President Alvaro Uribe in jail is being driven in large part by a rebel-turned-senator who has defied death threats to become the opposition's most fearless provocateur.
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Venezuela calls back its ambassador to Colombia as a row over the capture of a Colombian rebel grows.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accuses Farc rebels of killing politicians they were holding captive last week.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 29 -- Political figures with links to illegal paramilitary groups suffered setbacks in Sunday's regional elections in Colombia, as their discredited parties lost important gubernatorial and mayoral races, according to results on Monday.
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Just days ahead of a visit by President Bush, Colombia said it was investigating 69 soldiers accused in a massacre two years ago that induced Washington to suspend $70 million in military aid to the South American nation.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 18 -- Colombian guerrillas said Tuesday that they would hand over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¿vez, including an aide to French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt.
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SANTA BARBARA, Venezuela -- A whodunit involving two undercover Colombian soldiers whose bodies were found here in western Venezuela has heightened tensions between the neighboring countries and lifted the lid on the dirty little secrets of their border relations.
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BOGOTA -- The government of President Alvaro 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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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The death toll from flooding  in Colombia and Venezuela grew to more than 80 on Monday as  rescue workers found more corpses, the two countries'  governments said.
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Colombia's Congress will look into allegations that President Alvaro Uribe has links to the country's far-right paramilitaries, a member of the committee responsible for the investigation said Thursday.
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Crusading Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon  expanded long-standing charges against former Chilean dictator  Augusto Pinochet on Thursday to include money laundering and  concealment of assets.
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German prosecutors will launch proceedings against a Social Democratic lawmaker as part of a widening corruption scandal facing Europe's biggest car maker, Volkswagen, local media reported.
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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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Guatemalan President Oscar Berger is struggling to contain fallout from the murders of politicians and policemen in an election-year scandal that has revealed drug gang links to high-level security forces.