The Colombian military has captured one of the top leaders for a Marxist rebel group waging war on the government for more than 40 years, authorities said.
Daniel Rendon Herrera, Colombia's most-wanted drug kingpin suspect, was arrested early Wednesday, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced at a news conference.
Colombia's domestic intelligence agency, which is embroiled in an illegal wiretap investigation, no longer will be directly in charge of electronic interceptions, President Alvaro Uribe said Thursday.
Alan Jara, the former governor of Colombia's Meta state, arrived at the airport in Villavicencio on Tuesday afternoon, hours after a Marxist rebel group freed him.
Colombian officials are blaming the FARC guerrilla group for an explosion in an upscale Bogota neighborhood Tuesday night that killed two people and wounded 20.
Three former wartime allies were reunited at the White House for one last time on Tuesday when President George W. Bush awarded America's top civilian honor to the former prime ministers of Britain and Australia.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe enjoys one of the highest popularity ratings of any leader in South America, so much that his supporters are pushing for a third presidential term for him.
The Colombian military has captured one of the top leaders for a Marxist rebel group waging war on the government for more than 40 years, authorities said.
Daniel Rendon Herrera, Colombia's most-wanted drug kingpin suspect, was arrested early Wednesday, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced at a news conference.
Colombia's domestic intelligence agency, which is embroiled in an illegal wiretap investigation, no longer will be directly in charge of electronic interceptions, President Alvaro Uribe said Thursday.
Alan Jara, the former governor of Colombia's Meta state, arrived at the airport in Villavicencio on Tuesday afternoon, hours after a Marxist rebel group freed him.
Colombian officials are blaming the FARC guerrilla group for an explosion in an upscale Bogota neighborhood Tuesday night that killed two people and wounded 20.
Three former wartime allies were reunited at the White House for one last time on Tuesday when President George W. Bush awarded America's top civilian honor to the former prime ministers of Britain and Australia.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe enjoys one of the highest popularity ratings of any leader in South America, so much that his supporters are pushing for a third presidential term for him.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced Wednesday he is releasing all information on his and his family's income to show he did not invest in or make money from pyramid schemes that have defrauded millions.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe told military and police officials Monday to speed up any investigations into alleged human rights abuses -- a directive that follows allegations the military engineered executions of innocent civilians.
Colombia's U.S.-backed security forces are engaging in "systematic and widespread" extrajudicial executions of innocent civilians as part of their counterinsurgency campaign, a top United Nations diplomat said Saturday.
The Colombian military said Wednesday it had fired 27 soldiers, including generals and colonels, in an investigation into the army's role into the killings of at least 11 men who disappeared from a poor Bogota suburb this year.
Leftist rebels announced Tuesday they have agreed to exchange letters with a self-appointed group of Colombians, including some prominent public figures, to discuss the possible release of hostages the rebels are holding.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that police fired on Indian demonstrators despite a government pledge that security forces would not do so.
Colombian riot police may have fired live bullets at Indian protesters, according to a videotape that CNN obtained. The footage comes despite a government pledge that security forces would not do so.
Before heading out for a trio of well-publicized meetings with foreign dignitaries Tuesday, Sarah Palin received a briefing from the director of national security, Adm. Michael McConnell.
The International Committee of the Red Cross expressed its concern Wednesday over what may have been the improper use of its emblem in the daring rescue last month of 15 hostages in Colombia.
Colombia's minister of defense has admitted that two of the nine people involved in this month's daring rescue of 15 hostages held by Colombian rebels were pretending to be working for a Venezuela-based television news organization.
Two people who helped rescue 15 hostages from Colombian rebels posed as journalists from a real Venezuela-based television news organization, Colombia's defense minister said Wednesday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that the symbol of the neutral Red Cross organization was used in a hostage rescue mission that freed 15 people from leftist rebels two weeks ago.
The three Americans rescued Wednesday after more than five years in captivity in the jungles of Colombia appear to be in good health, doctors said Thursday.
The White House said Thursday that neither it nor the State Department gave Sen. John McCain advance word of a rescue mission in Colombia while he was in the country.
The guerrillas of FARC reveal that their founder, a character straight out of a Garcia Marquez novel, has died. Will his fearsome rebellion perish with him?
Fourteen warlords from far-right paramilitary militias suspected in Colombia of thousands of atrocities began court appearances Wednesday around the United States on drug trafficking charges
The Colombian government sent 14 suspected paramilitary leaders to the United States on drug charges Tuesday after authorities said they violated a 2003 deal with the government.
Colombia extradited one of the country's most feared paramilitary warlords to the United States early Wednesday to face drug trafficking charges, the government said
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is trying to navigate a crisis: how to operate a government in which 30 Colombian congressmen have been formally sought by prosecutors for alleged ties to right-wing paramilitary groups.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's second cousin, ex-Senator Mario Uribe Escobar, was arrested Tuesday after Costa Rica denied his request for asylum, a witness said.
On the border between Ecuador and Colombia, FARC rebels -- and the government forces chasing them -- have created the continent's most serious security crisis
A humanitarian mission to help hostages held by Colombian rebels began as a hostage's son said his mother needs a blood transfusion, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Wednesday.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will send a humanitarian mission to Colombia's jungles to treat ailing hostages held by leftist rebels there, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Tuesday.
The Venezuelan government on Sunday announced it is re-establishing normal diplomatic ties with Colombia after the two South American countries resolved their differences over Colombia's recent cross-border attack on rebels in Ecuador.
The presidents of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador have signed a declaration to end a crisis sparked when Colombian troops killed a rebel leader and 21 others inside Ecuadoran territory.
As South American officials tried to ease tensions sparked by Colombia's killing of a rebel leader inside Ecuador, the Colombian army announced the death of another top militant Friday.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Tuesday that he will seek Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's denunciation in court for financing a terrorist group.
Castigated for losing track of their own prisoners, leftist rebels release two long-held women politicians -- which could be a boost for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez
Venezuela's President tried to shore up his standing by aiding the release of hostages in Colombia. But his words don't carry as much weight with radicals next door
A mission to free three hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia stalled Monday, with the rebels and Colombian authorities trading blame for the delay.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez confirmed Saturday that he plans to witness the release of three hostages held for years by the Colombian left-wing guerrilla group FARC.
Three captives held for years by Colombian rebels could be freed by the end of the year, including an aide to Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt and the woman's 3-year-old son, according to a statement.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will negotiate on behalf of the Colombian government with leftist rebels holding dozens of hostages, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced Friday.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez entered Colombia's bitter hostage standoff Friday, seeking to broker a deal between the government and leftist guerrillas to free hostages, including politician Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. defense contractors.
The United States has asked Colombia to extradite a former paramilitary boss after he violated a peace deal by organizing cocaine shipments from his jail cell, the government said Monday.
Colombia's government offered to extradite a jailed paramilitary chief to the United States on Friday after kicking him out of a peace accord for organizing drug trafficking from his prison cell.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will meet with his Colombian counterpart this month in an offer to help mediate a prisoner-hostage exchange with Colombia's largest rebel group, a Colombian senator said Friday.
Colombia has begun releasing prisoners from its largest Marxist rebel group, beginning with its "foreign minister," Rodrigo Granda, in hopes of getting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to reciprocate, authorities said Wednesday.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe won a solid re-election victory Sunday, claiming more than 60 percent of the vote in a field of seven, election officials reported.
One of Colombia's most notorious suspected drug traffickers who allegedly masterminded the smuggling of tons of cocaine into the United States may never see the inside of a U.S. prison, much less a courtroom.
Leftist rebels have killed 17 Colombian soldiers, including an army officer, during a firefight in the northern province of Uraba, the nation's top military commander said.
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