<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Colombia: News &amp; Videos about Colombia - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Colombia</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Colombia from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:09:26 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Colombia: News &amp; Videos about Colombia - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Colombia</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Colombia from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Killings close Venezuelan-Colombia border</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/03/venezuela.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/03/venezuela.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two international bridges between Venezuela and Colombia remained closed, as Venezuelan authorities searched for three people and arrested a fourth suspected in the shooting death of two national guardsmen.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ICE touts $41 million cash seizure in Mexico, Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/28/colombia.mexico.cash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/28/colombia.mexico.cash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Mexican and Colombian officials working with U.S. agents have seized about $41 million in cash hidden in shipping containers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced Monday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hostage's video plea released in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/24/colombia.hostage.tape/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/09/24/colombia.hostage.tape/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Marxist guerrillas in Colombia have released a proof-of-life video of a hostage who has been held for nearly 12 years.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. agency to investigate Indian massacre in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/27/colombia.massacre/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/27/colombia.massacre/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A United Nations human rights agency has agreed to help Colombia investigate the massacre of 12 Indians in the southwestern part of the country.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Guerrilla war displaces millions of Colombians</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/22/colombia.displaced/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/05/22/colombia.displaced/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Imagine the entire population of Kentucky forced out of their homes in the past 25 years, with many of the residents moving to a neighboring country.</description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Jailbird' ruffles feathers in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/colombia.jailbird/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/colombia.jailbird/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A carrier pigeon in Colombia gave new meaning to the term "jailbird" when officials discovered that it was trying to smuggle cell phone parts into a high-security prison, a news report said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:02:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombian guerrillas held on U.S. drug charges</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/20/colombia.farc.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/20/colombia.farc.arrests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two members of a Colombian guerrilla group have been arrested on federal U.S. drug charges, the U.S. attorney in New York announced.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia's FARC releases Swedish captive</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/17/colombia.farc.swede/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/03/17/colombia.farc.swede/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The last non-Colombian hostage known to have been held by leftist rebels in Colombia was freed Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:24:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia volcano erupts twice in less than a week</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/20/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/20/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A volcano in southwest Colombia erupted again Friday morning, raining ash on nearby residents and agricultural fields.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Volcano eruption sparks alert in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/14/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/14/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A volcano near southwest Colombia's border with Ecuador erupted on Saturday, leading the government to issue a "red alert" for the region.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 03:41:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombian guerrillas kill 17 Indians, human rights groups say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/11/colombia.indians/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/11/colombia.indians/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Guerrillas in Colombia tortured and killed 17 Indians who they believed were helping the government, a governor and two human rights organizations said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia bus crash kills at least 20, officials say</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/03/colombia.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/03/colombia.bus.crash/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A bus with 32 people on board plunged off a cliff in Colombia on Monday night, killing at least 20 people, a top government official said Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:48:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hostage release stalls in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/02/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/02/02/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A hostage held by Marxist rebels in Colombia was not released Monday as hoped but the lead negotiator said she will try again early Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:25:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadly U.S. superbugs spread to South America</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/14/superbugs.samerica/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/14/superbugs.samerica/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Variations of two deadly superbugs that had previously only been discovered in the United States have surfaced in South America.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia freezes fuel prices</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/30/colombia.gas/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/30/colombia.gas/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Colombia will freeze prices for gasoline and other petrofuels through March, the government has announced.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Flooding leaves 50,000 homeless in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/15/colombia.flooding/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/15/colombia.flooding/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than 50,000 residents of northern Colombia remained homeless Monday after the rain-swollen Magdalena River broke through dikes and flooded towns and surrounding areas.</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Volcano landslides kill 6 in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/23/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/11/23/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A snow-capped volcano erupted and sparked landslides in southwest Colombia, killing at least six people -- four of them children, government officials and rescue workers said Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>2 men killed in Colombia protests</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/22/colombia.protesters/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/22/colombia.protesters/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two men were shot to death Tuesday in a clash with riot police amid a burgeoning Indian protest in southwestern Colombia.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombian Indians push anti-government protests</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/20/colombia.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/20/colombia.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of Colombian Indians plan to protest government policies on Tuesday in the country's second-largest city, marking more than a week of demonstrations against the nation's free-market economic policies.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:06:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two dead, 100 hurt in Colombian clashes</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/15/colombia.clashes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/15/colombia.clashes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Violent clashes between Indian protesters and riot police continued Wednesday in southwest Colombia, increasing the casualty toll to at least two dead and about 100 injured, according to Indian spokesmen.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:29:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Strike delays Colombia court cases</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/07/colombia.strike/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/10/07/colombia.strike/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The wheels of justice have ground to a halt for thousands of people in Colombia.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia probes mysterious deaths</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/26/colombia.mysterious.deaths/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/26/colombia.mysterious.deaths/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Blanca Nubia Monroy's son said he would not be gone long.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hostages' relatives to Colombia: You abandoned us</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/09/colombia.forgotten.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/09/09/colombia.forgotten.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>More than two months after former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others were rescued from FARC rebels, relatives of the thousands of remaining hostages say the government has abandoned them.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tim Vickery: South American qualifying rivals on collision course</title><link>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/tim_vickery/09/02/south.america.qualifying/index.html</link><guid>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/tim_vickery/09/02/south.america.qualifying/index.html</guid><description>Now that the adrenaline rush of the transfer window has passed, attention turns to international soccer and the road to South Africa 2010. South America's marathon World Cup qualification campaign is well underway -- this coming weekend marks the seventh of the 18 rounds played -- and there's plenty at stake in all five of the matches on the calendar.</description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:04:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Freed American hostages 'overwhelmed with emotion'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/05/farc.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/05/farc.americans/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The three Americans rescued after more than five years in captivity in Colombia say they are doing well but are "overwhelmed with emotion," according to a statement released on their behalf.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rescued Americans are healthy, reuniting with families</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/03/hostages.arrive/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/07/03/hostages.arrive/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia's Stunning Hostage Rescue</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819862,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1819862,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans is a major victory for Colombia's President</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia detains Venezuelan soldier with ammunition</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/06/10/colombia.venezuela/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/06/10/colombia.venezuela/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Colombia has detained a Venezuelan soldier found with thousands of rounds of ammunition of the kind favored by leftist rebels in Colombia, Venezuelan authorities admitted.</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Weeks of rain bring disease to Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/28/colombia.floods/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/28/colombia.floods/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Flooding in central Colombia has left at least 14 people dead, 100 injured and 100,000 homeless over the past week, officials said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia: Wanted Rebel Surrenders</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1807679,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1807679,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A wanted leader of Latin America's largest guerrilla army
  handed herself over to Colombian authorities, Colombia's defense
  minister said</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chavez: Interpol report a 'clown show'</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/15/colombia.computers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/15/colombia.computers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Colombia did not alter computer files that it claims show Venezuelan support for a leftist rebel group, the international police organization Interpol said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bill, Hillary Clinton disagree on Colombia trade pact</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/09/clinton.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/09/clinton.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sen. Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill don't see eye-to-eye when it comes to a controversial free trade pact.</description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia: Ecuadoran killed in raid</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/colombia.ecuador/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/colombia.ecuador/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Colombian defense minister said Sunday that a military raid that killed about two dozen Colombian rebels in Ecuadoran territory also killed a citizen of Ecuador.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:52:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Ecuadoran father denies son was rebel</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/colombia.ecuador.dad/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/24/colombia.ecuador.dad/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A day after a Colombian official identified one of the people killed by a Colombian military strike on a rebel camp in this country as Ecuadoran, the dead man's father denied his son was a member of the rebel group.</description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Venezuela resetting diplomatic ties with Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/09/venezuela.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/09/venezuela.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia crisis ends with accord</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/samerica.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/samerica.summit/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:26:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Second Colombian rebel leader killed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/colombia.farc/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/07/colombia.farc/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nicaragua breaks diplomatic relations with Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/06/nic.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/06/nic.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega said Thursday that the nation is breaking relations with Colombia "in solidarity with the Ecuadoran people." </description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>OAS passes resolution on Colombian raid</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/05/oas.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/05/oas.colombia/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Organization of American States passed a resolution Wednesday in hopes of easing tensions stemming from an attack into Ecuadoran territory by Colombia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:34:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Refereeing the Colombia Standoff</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720012,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720012,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Long derided as ineffectual, the Organization of American States steps up to mediate a dangerous standoff between Andean power players
</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia to accuse Chavez before international court</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/04/colombia.venezuela/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/04/colombia.venezuela/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Tuesday that he will seek Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's denunciation in court for financing a terrorist group. </description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ecuador Breaks Ties With Colombia</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1719061,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1719061,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Ecuador on Monday broke off diplomatic ties with Colombia and Venezuela says it will expel Colombia's ambassador after that country conducted a strike against leftist rebels inside Ecuador</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fallen Rebel: The U.S. Connection</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1718765,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1718765,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Raul Reyes' recent death in battle was part of a larger plan (partially funded by the United States) to chip away at the power of Colombia's rebel insurgency. Is it working?</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombian rebels to release more hostages</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/26/colombia.hostage/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/26/colombia.hostage/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Leftist rebels in Colombia plan to release four hostages this week whom they have held for several years, senior officials in Venezuela and Colombia said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Thousands flee volcanic eruption in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/18/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/18/colombia.volcano/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A volcano erupted in southwestern Colombia on Thursday night, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of about 8,000 people.</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia gripped by hostage saga</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/04/child.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/01/04/child.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The story of a boy born into captivity in the South American jungle has riveted people for more than a year in Colombia, striking a nerve in a country numbed by 40 years of political violence.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:39:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mission to pick up hostages in Colombia delayed</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/29/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/29/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A tense waiting game is under way in Colombia, where the rescue of three hostages -- to be freed by Colombian leftist rebels -- failed to take place Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Mission begins to free FARC hostages</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/28/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/12/28/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two Venezuelan helicopters arrived in central Colombia on Friday as part of an operation to free three hostages from the jungles of Colombia. </description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Videos show hostages held by Colombian rebels</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/30/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/11/30/colombia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Colombian government has seized five videotapes from suspected members of a rebel group that show a number of hostages, including Colombian Sen. Ingrid Betancourt and three American contractors, a government statement said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:49:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>See Colombia. Ratify Free Trade</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1688557,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1688557,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>U.S. Commerce department junkets in Colombia are pushing a free trade agreement with Bush's close Latin American ally</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The village that could save the planet</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/26/technology/village_saving_planet.biz2/index.htm</guid><description>We're rumbling across eastern Colombia in a convoy of military jeeps and pickup trucks. Salsa music blasts out of speakers somewhere, and an unrelenting 100-degree sun is bleaching the bone-dry savanna. Although there's not a plane in the sky or a living thing on the ground for miles around, our convoy is armed to the teeth.</description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Quake strikes off Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/09/colombia.quake/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/09/09/colombia.quake/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck just off Colombia's Pacific coast late Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:26:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Special In Aisle 3? Oil Company Shares
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659155,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659155,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Colombia's state oil company goes searching for investors -- in supermarkets, gyms and big-box stores
</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. asks Colombia to extradite ex-paramilitary chief</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/27/colombia.extradition.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/27/colombia.extradition.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:57:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia may extradite paramilitary chief to U.S.</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/24/colombia.paramilitary.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/24/colombia.paramilitary.reut/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>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.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:36:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hostage makes dramatic escape from Colombia rebels</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/17/Colombia.hostage.escape/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/05/17/Colombia.hostage.escape/index.html</guid><description>A Colombian police officer says he walked for 17 days in the Amazon jungle to escape his captors, the country's revolutionary militia group.</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 12:43:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gas blast kills at least 23 miners in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/04/colombia.mine/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/02/04/colombia.mine/index.html</guid><description>At least 23 coal miners died in an explosion Saturday in two adjacent mines in a village in northeastern Colombia, an official said on Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:38:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Children trudge through mud, train for war in Colombia</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/09/penhaul.childsoldiers.btsc/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/06/09/penhaul.childsoldiers.btsc/index.html</guid><description>The video image is grainy. The VHS tape damaged from weeks of being stored in a jungle camp. But you can make them out clearly -- hundreds of children, boys and girls, crawling through thick mud, saluting and marching on the spot.</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:27:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S., Colombians bust money laundering ring</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/14/drug.money/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/14/drug.money/index.html</guid><description>A two-year undercover investigation targeting money laundering operations in the United States and Colombia has resulted in 81 indictments and 36 arrests of people allegedly connected to a major drug cartel, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:51:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Moths could target cocaine output</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/06/09/cocaine.colombia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/06/09/cocaine.colombia/index.html</guid><description>Thousands of hungry moths may hold the key to eradicating cocaine production, Colombian scientists have said, but critics say the idea could open the way for "ecological mischief."</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia troops take rebel-held town</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/04/27/colombia/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/04/27/colombia/index.html</guid><description>Colombian soldiers seized control of a town Wednesday from Marxist guerrillas who had been camped in and around the Indian village for the past two weeks.</description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:14:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombian official: Rebels planned to kill Bush</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/11/27/bush-plot/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/11/27/bush-plot/index.html</guid><description>U.S. President George W. Bush was targeted for assassination by Marxist rebels this week when he visited the city of Cartagena, a Colombian official said Saturday.</description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>34 killed in Colombia massacre</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/06/15/colombia.massacre/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/06/15/colombia.massacre/index.html</guid><description>At least 34 farm workers were killed and five others wounded in a massacre in northwest Colombia near the Venezuelan border in which leftist rebels are suspected, a spokesman at the chief prosecutor's office has said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia to hold IRA-linked trio</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/13/colombia.ira/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/13/colombia.ira/index.html</guid><description>A judge in Colombia has denied a request by three suspected members of the Irish Republican Army to leave the country pending prosecutors' appeal of their acquittal on charges of training rebels to use explosives.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 22:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colombia, outlawed paramilitary agree to deal</title><link>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/13/colombia.paramilitary/index.html</link><guid>http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/13/colombia.paramilitary/index.html</guid><description>The leaders of an outlawed, far-right paramilitary group have agreed to lay down their arms and move to a small town in northern Colombia, where they will be watched by international observers, a government spokesman said Thursday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 17:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE WHO'S READY FOR FREE TRADE? </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/08/22/79666/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/08/22/79666/index.htm</guid><description>The Readiness index is based on price and currency stability, budget discipline, external debt, political stability, market-oriented policies, and reliance on trade taxes. A 5 means "ready," a 0 "n...</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>DON'T BE FOOLED BY FOOL'S GOLD</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/08/01/84632/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1988/08/01/84632/index.htm</guid><description>When Spanish conquistadors discovered platinum in the rivers of Colombia in the 16th century, they threw it back because they thought it was unripe gold. Today, pitchmen are touting platinum in coi...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 1988 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>