Colombia Blows Up Stockpiled Land Mines
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Colombia's armed forces blew up 6,800 stockpiled land mines Sunday as President Alvaro Uribe, Queen Noor of Jordan and dozens of mine blast victims watched on large screens, launching an effort to eventually rid the country of the weapons.
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The Galeras volcano in southern Colombia erupted on Sunday, spraying rocks and starting short-lived forest fires, but no injuries were reported, the government said.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian Marxist rebels  bombarded a jungle Navy base with home-made missiles before  dawn on Tuesday, killing 14 marines and wounding 25 others, the  Navy said.
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BOGOT&#xC1; -- Colombia's president accused guerrillas of murdering 11 state lawmakers in cold blood, making a live television broadcast yesterday to dispute a rebel claim that the hostages died in crossfire during a military attack.
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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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Colombia's government launched a three-day operation to seize control of the country's largest pharmacy chain over alleged links to the Cali cocaine cartel.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday seized  hundreds of drug stores across the country suspected of money  laundering for the Cali cocaine cartel, in the biggest property  seizure in Colombia's history.
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Hundreds of thousands of people marched through Colombia's major cities Thursday and drivers honked horns in unison in a mass protest to demand the immediate liberation of the country's kidnap victims.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb. 4 -- Millions of protesters fanned out across Colombia on Monday, expressing fury over guerrilla atrocities in a long civil conflict and demanding the liberation of hundreds of hostages held in clandestine jungle camps.
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An explosion at a coal mine Saturday in remote northeast Colombia buried at least 31 miners in two tunnels, a rescue official said.
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A volcano erupted in southwestern Colombia on Thursday night, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of about 8,000 people.
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Some 450 members of Colombia&#39;s feared rightwing paramilitaries have disarmed en masse in a football field as part of the process to end the civil war.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua  - Nicaragua has found  thousands of anti-personnel mines left over from its 1980s-era  civil war, ending hopes of declaring the country safe from the  weapons this year.
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More than 1,400 Colombian paramilitaries hand over their weapons to the country's government.
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Suspected Marxist rebels attack a prison in Colombia allowing at least 20 prisoners to escape.
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An explosion tore through a makeshift coal mine in remote northeast Colombia on Saturday, killing 32 miners, a civil defense official said.
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Soldiers swarmed onto a farm Monday and captured one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers hiding in bushes in his underwear. Colombian officials called it their biggest drug war victory since the 1993 slaying of Medellin cartel leader Pablo Escobar.