Colombia rebels linked to drug traffic
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Colombian rebels attempted to traffic drugs through Chile, police said Saturday in describing the seizure of almost a half-ton of cocaine and arrests 12 people.
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Colombian authorities revealed Friday that they had lost track in June of three IRA-linked men, convicted this week of training Marxist rebels in terrorist tactics, after the men defied a court order to report to police weekly.
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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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BOGOT&#xC1; -- The Colombian government, the recipient of billions of dollars in US aid to fight drugs and a leftist insurgency, is under siege as evidence mounts of links between right-wing death squads and dozens of officials loyal to President &#xC1;lvaro Uribe.
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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested a former rebel leader and presidential candidate with alleged ties to drug traffickers, Haitian radio reported.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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Colombia&#39;s top drug kingpin is now in custody in the US A plane from Colombia to Miami touched down earlier Saturday with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela on board.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - 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 Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez.
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Police said Sunday they found a cache of explosives in the coastal city of Cartagena that rebels planned to use to assassinate President Alvaro Uribe.
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Colombian rebels plotted to assassinate George Bush during his brief stopover in the port of Cartagena last week, according to the country&#39;s defence minister.
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Colombia admits paying bounty hunters to capture a rebel Farc leader on Venezuela's territory.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A top Colombian rebel  captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela,  possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation  of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse  Chacon said on Wednesday.
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Colombia's main rebel group asked followers to mount an assassination attempt against President Bush during his visit to Colombia last week, Defense Minister Jorge Uribe said. There was no evidence Saturday that rebels even tried to organize such an attack.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela said on Thursdayit would arrest Colombian rebels found hiding in its territoryas Bogota and Caracas tried to end a stand-off over the seizureof a rebel leader in the Venezuelan capital.
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A top Colombian rebel leader was convicted on Tuesday in a U.S. court on charges of conspiring to produce and import cocaine into the United States.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Sept. 10 -- A reputed cocaine kingpin who is on the FBI's Most Wanted list was captured Monday in an army operation that government officials hailed as a major blow against drug trafficking in this Andean country.
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Top Marxist rebel Ricardo Palmera was extradited to the United States yesterday, becoming the first leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, to face US drug and terrorism charges, officials said. Army commandos with assault rifles and US Drug Enforcement Administration agents escorted Palmera, wearing handcuffs and a bulletproof jacket, to a US government plane at a military airfield outside Bogota.