Hundreds of Colombian Paramilitaries Turn in Arms
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Some 450 far-right Colombian paramilitary fighters turned in their weapons on Thursday as part of a government-negotiated demobilization to eliminate the outlawed group by the end of next year.
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Hundreds of thousands turn out to back the main opposition candidate for the Venezuelan presidency.
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Hundreds of thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country and overseas on Monday in a huge protest against FARC guerrillas and their kidnapping of hostages held for years in hidden jungle camps.
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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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Colombian police arrested the top leaders of a paramilitary group on Wednesday for violating the terms of a peace accord that has led to the demobilization of 30,000 right-wing fighters.
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More than 900 right-wing paramilitary fighters surrendered their weapons Tuesday, but a leading international rights group criticized the demobilization process and said the Colombian government is letting war criminals off the hook.
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Colombian soldiers killed 5 rebels in a gun battle as the army broke up an extortion scheme in which the guerrillas demanded protection money from a cousin of former President Cesar Gaviria, authorities said on Friday.
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Colombian Marxist guerrillas have said they will turn over three of their hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after Bogota ended the leftist leader's efforts to secure a deal to free rebel captives.
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Fighting between Colombia's two main guerrilla groups has forced around 2,000 people from their homes in a rare mass displacement near the border with Venezuela, the Red Cross and authorities said on Wednesday.
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BOGOTA -- Four hundred Colombian Indians, carrying only sticks, plan to confront heavily armed Marxist rebels to demand that they release community leaders kidnapped in August, an Indian official said yesterday.
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BOGOTA, Colombia -- Col. HernÃÂ¡n MejÃÂ­a was among Colombia's most decorated officers, a young, strapping warrior with five medals for valor on his chest and a reputation for being a relentless adversary of the Marxist guerrillas who operated in the dusty hamlets of northeast Colombia.
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Peruvian forces take positions around a  police station where a group of army reservists are holding hostages.
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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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olice helicopters hovered overhead. Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied below. Top brass kept watch from mobile command posts. More than 5,000 copsthe largest contingent ever mobilized for one demonstrationpatrolled. Even the ...
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The Red Cross said Monday that Colombian rebels are offering to hand over the bodies of 11 state lawmakers killed last month in disputed circumstances.
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Miguel Arroyave, chief of a faction of the paramilitary Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC),has been killed in an ambush in the country&#39;s central-south province of Meta, authorities said Monday.
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Escorted by heavily armed soldiers and tanks, Colombia's government on Friday transferred 59 paramilitary warlords who demobilized under a peace deal to a maximum-security prison, citing fears of an escape plot by the men.