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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
LA MACARENA, Colombia -- Accompanying frontline Colombian soldiers is not something I would have tried when I first arrived here 12 years ago. At the time, the army was getting chewed up by Marxist rebels who overran military bases and kidnapped hundreds of troops. Back then, it would have been safer to embed with the guerrillas. More on Colombia
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Colombia Reports (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Guerrillas of the FARC killed five and wounded nine Colombian soldiers in the south of Colombia, the army announced Sunday.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
The Colombian Prosecutor's Office exhumed the remains of 31 victims of guerilla groups in 15 municipalities, judicial sources said Wednesday. In San Luis municipality, prosecutors of the national Justice and Peace unit found the remains of a Colombian soldier kidnapped in 2000. "One of the exhumed remains apparently belongs to Demetrio Yepes Amaya, soldier of the National...
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Colombia Reports (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
A Colombian soldier in the Spanish army has been wounded in Afghanistan, becoming the first Colombian casualty in that war.
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Why Colombia's Leftist Guerrillas Are Defecting -- Time Magazine At a ramshackle radio station nestled in former guerrilla territory, a Colombian soldier-DJ dedicates a country-and-western-style ballad to all the rebels out there having second thoughts about la revolución. In the song, a former guerrilla touts the benefits of disarming. "My life has changed," he declares....
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
... he has admitted through his lawyer to driving bin Laden around his farm in Kandahar, Afghanistan. •Colombian soldiers charged in killings of civilians(AP) -- Colombian authorities have arrested a retired lieutenant colonel and seven other soldiers in the killings of two civilians whom they allegedly presented as guerrillas slain in combat to inflate rebel body counts.Prosecutors...
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Colombia Reports (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Marleny Orjuela respresents families whose loved ones are held by guerrillas in the Colombian jungle. Interviewed by Colombia Reports, she shows she is indignant about the little interest her government and the international community show to help.
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Colombia Reports (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Marleny Orjuela respresents families whose loved ones are held by guerrillas in the Colombian jungle. She is indignant about the little interest her government and the international community show to help. “When the rich people were still hostage, it was an important item, but now that the politicians are free, for many it is not important any more.”
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
The Venezuelan Attorney General’s Office has formally started an investigation into an alleged assassination plot against President Hugo Chavez, following recently publicized declarations by a former paramilitary hitman and a former Colombian intelligence official. Attorney General Luisa Ortega announced the opening of the investigation after National Assembly Legislator Reinaldo Garcia...
