Colombia wins drug lord's house
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The Colombian state finally wins control of the estate of the late Medellin drugs baron, Pablo Escobar.
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The highest-ranking jailed member of Colombia's main guerrilla group was freed by the government Monday as part of a wider prisoner release intended to help secure the freedom of 60 hostages &#151; including three Americans &#151; held by the guerrillas.
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A gang that tried to use a pop star's home as a safe house is convicted of running a drugs empire.
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Colombia's most-wanted drugs trafficker has been found murdered in a Venezuelan holiday cabin.
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Colombia hands leftist rebel leader Simon Trinidad over to the US after his group fails to free hostages.
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Colombia's top drug lord, who earned the title "boss of bosses" for smuggling hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the United States, was captured on Monday, the country's biggest narcotics arrest in a decade.
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President Alvaro Uribe&#039;s landslide re-election victory wasn&#039;t only celebrated in Colombia. The clear win for the law-and-order conservative was a triumph as well for U.S. policymakers, who some observers say may be losing Latin America to a rising tide of leftist nationalism.
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A Colombian drug lord was sentenced to 40 years in prison in Florida on Thursday and ordered to forfeit $110 million, authorities said.
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Colombian authorities seize $200m worth of assets of two brothers who headed the Cali drug cartel.
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Colombia's government on Sunday cleared the way for FARC guerrillas to handover three more hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez even as the Andean neighbors quarrel over his role in freeing rebel captives.
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Bogota - Former drug kingpin Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, head of the powerful Cali drug cartel, was en route to the United States early on Saturday after being handed over to American anti-narcotics officials the night before, a Colombian official said.
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.
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COLOMBIA BOGOTA -- President Alvaro Uribe pardoned 23 jailed Marxist rebels yesterday as a goodwill gesture and said he hoped guerrilla leaders will respond by freeing hostages, though the leaders previously have said they would not reciprocate. Government Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said the 23 rebels belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, will be freed ...
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Law-and-order President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in a landslide Sunday in Colombia&#039;s most peaceful elections in more than a decade, strengthening the U.S. ally&#039;s mandate to crack down on armed groups and drug traffickers.
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Police in Colombia capture a leading suspected drug trafficker, Diego Montoya, the government says.
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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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A leading Colombian paramilitary leader is accused of running a drugs empire from prison and loses privileges,