Colombian Rebels, Gov't Inch Toward Talks
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The government said Monday it would consider a demand from Colombia's main rebel group to hold face-to-face talks over swapping jailed insurgents for dozens of hostages, including three U.S. military contractors.
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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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Venezuela's President Chavez visits Colombia for talks on how to broker a hostage deal with left-wing rebels.
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Colombian leftist rebels released a video that showed seven kidnapped police officers and soldiers &#151; some of whom have spent nearly a decade in captivity &#151; pleading for talks between the government and the rebels to set them free.
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Colombian rebels said in a letter on Monday intense military activity had impeded the release of three hostages they had promised to hand over to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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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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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A Venezuelan-sponsored plan to free three hostages held by Colombian rebels was stalled by the guerrillas' failure to reveal their location, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said it may unravel if the stalemate drags on.
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A spokesman for the rebel forces that control the northern half of Ivory Coast said today that the rebels had not been invited to talks led by South Africa&#39;s president
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Colombia and Venezuela say a diplomatic crisis over the capture of a Colombian rebel is over.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's biggest leftist rebel group proposed a conditional cease-fire with the government on Monday, its most significant step toward peace since conservative Alvaro Uribe became president in 2002.
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Venezuela turns down Colombia's offer of a regional summit to resolve a row over a kidnapped rebel leader.
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The Colombian and Venezuelan leaders are to meet to try to resolve a diplomatic dispute between the two nations.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - E-mail may be the fastest way  to negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Colombian rebel group  holding 72 hostages, the government said on Wednesday,  declining to explain why it wanted to avoid face-to-face talks.
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The smaller of Colombia's two leftist rebel groups offered Tuesday to meet with a Mexican mediator to discuss possible peace talks with the government and reiterated its call for a bilateral cease-fire.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A Venezuelan helicopter mission to rescue three hostages held for years by Colombian rebels in jungle camps was delayed again on Saturday because guerrilla leaders have not given the final go-ahead.
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The largest rebel group in Colombia, the Farc, rejects a government proposal to exchange prisoners.
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Marxist rebels kept hold of three hostages in Colombia on Monday despite a deal to free them after years in secret camps, worrying Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez who negotiated the handover with the guerrillas.