Maduro: Doubts on Santos' will for peace
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he now doubts his Colombian counterpart is serious about making peace with FARC rebels.
View ArticleColombia minister rules out NATO membership
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's defense minister on Tuesday backed away from a suggestion by President Juan Manuel Santos that the country might be looking at membership in the North Atlantic Treaty...
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FARC calls for election delay in Colombia talks
HAVANA - Talks on ending Colombia's protracted civil conflict resumed Tuesday with a surprising proposal from the country's largest rebel group: postpone next year's elections.
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Colombia's long-elusive goal: land reform
MORROA, Colombia - Caught in the crossfire between far-right militias and leftist rebels, 40 families abandoned the farm they shared in the foothills of Colombia's Montes de Maria range. The land...
View ArticleColombia vows assault on FARC after 19 troops dead
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's president says his military will mount a strong offensive against the country's biggest rebel movement after guerrillas killed 19 soldiers this weekend in two regions.
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Santos vows firm retaliation after FARC kills 19
BOGOTA, Colombia - President Juan Manuel Santos has promised decisive retaliation after Colombia's main rebel band killed 19 soldiers in a single day in the biggest blow to the military since peace...
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Colombia's Santos seeks US clarification on spying
BOGOTA, Colombia - President Juan Manuel Santos said Thursday that he is seeking clarification from Washington on whether its intelligence-gathering in Colombia has overstepped the countries' joint...
View ArticleEcuador soldier slain in firefight with Colombians
QUITO, Ecuador - Colombian rebels killed an Ecuadorean army lieutenant and wounded a corporal Thursday in more than four hours of combat that spanned a river between the two countries, military leaders...
View ArticleColombia peace talks eye political participation
HAVANA - Colombia's government and its largest rebel army have begun building agreements on the guerrillas' eventual political integration if peace talks succeed, negotiators said Saturday as they...
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13 Colombian soldiers killed, talks to resume
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's government announced that peace talks with Latin America's last major rebel army were resuming just hours after guerrillas killed 13 soldiers Saturday in an ambush.
View ArticleHRW: Colombia inadequate in helping landless
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia has "chronically failed" to protect people trying to reclaim stolen land, threatening to sabotage President Juan Manuel Santos' unprecedented efforts to end the Western...
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Former informant suing US for abandoning her
WASHINGTON - A former confidential informant working for the United States in Colombia claims in a lawsuit that the U.S. government abandoned her when she got into legal trouble for her undercover...
View ArticleColombian rebels free former American GI
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's main leftist rebel group on Sunday released a former U.S. Army private who the guerrillas seized in June after he refused to heed local officials' warnings and wandered...
View ArticleColombian president to meet with Obama in December
WASHINGTON - The White House says Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will come to Washington and meet with President Barack Obama later this year.
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Rebels, Colombia reach partial deal in peace talks
HAVANA - Colombian government and rebel negotiators on Wednesday announced a partial agreement covering the guerrillas' participation in national politics if talks in Havana reach a final deal to end...
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Political role for rebels in Colombia talks
BOGOTA, Colombia - President Juan Manuel Santos is hailing a partial agreement on a role in Colombian politics for the nation's largest rebel group as an unprecedented accomplishment after a year of...
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Obama touts economic, trade ties with Colombia
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama congratulated Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday on taking bold steps toward peace in his country and praised a U.S.-Colombia trade agreement that has...
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Colombia: 9 killed in rebel attack
BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says nine people, including civilians, military and a police officer, died in an attack on a police post that's being blamed on rebels.
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Does Bogota mayor's ouster threaten peace process?
BOGOTA, Colombia - Thousands of people massed in Bogota's main square on Friday evening to support Bogota's leftist mayor, whose dismissal is considered by some Colombians to be a potential blow...
View ArticleReport: CIA helped Colombia kill rebel leaders
WASHINGTON - A covert CIA program has helped Colombia's government kill at least two dozen leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the rebel insurgency also known as FARC, The Washington...
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