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• Slain Colombian governor lacked adequate security, says family

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Bogota, Dec 24 (IANS/EFE) Relatives of Luis Francisco Cuellar, a Colombian governor who was abducted and killed this week by suspected FARC rebels, have said that the politician had insufficient police protection despite having been kidnapped on four other occasions.Luis Fernando Cuellar, son of the slain governor of ...
  23 hours ago

• Cuellar, Colombian governor, slain by FARC

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 947
  BOGOTA, COLOMBIA -- Colombias largest rebel group, which in recent months has launched a string of armed attacks to demonstrate that it is not a spent force after 45 years of conflict, this week staged a strike that alarmed Colombians and raised questions about President Álvaro Uribes...
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• Kidnapped Colombian Governor Found Dead

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  Colombian officials were blaming the rebel organization FARC, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, for the death of Luis Francisco Cuellar, governor of the country’s southern province of Caqueta, on Wednesday. Cuellar had been kidnapped on Monday night and was found less than a day later with his throat slit, ...
  1 day ago

• Abducted Colombian governor killed

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 599
  The governor of Caqueta province in southern Colombia was killed Tuesday by rebels who kidnapped him Monday at his home, in what the BBC calls the highest-profile kidnapping since 2002. President Alvaro Uribe ascribes the murder to Farc rebels, saying they apparently slit Luis Francisco Cuellar’s throat to keep him ...
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• FARC Rebels Kidnap Columbian Governor

  
  FJ's South of the Border Blog — Authority: 128
  BOGOTA — Marxist FARC rebels kidnapped the governor of Colombias southern department of Caqueta, snatching him from his home, local media reported Monday. A unit of the leftist insurgency, Latin Americas oldest and longest-fighting rebel force, abducted Luis Francisco Cuellar after attacking his home, the private ...
  2 days ago

• Colombia’s Uribe orders rescue of kidnapped governor (Reuters)

  
  enUws — Authority: 467
  Reuters – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Tuesday ordered troops to hunt down and rescue a state governor who authorities said was… Read more: (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Colombia’s Uribe orders rescue of kidnapped governor (Reuters)
  2 days ago

• Colombia rebels kidnap governor

  
  heave-ho.org — Authority: 164
  Suspected Farc rebels in Colombia kidnap the governor of Caqueta province, say local officials. Go here to read the rest: Colombia rebels kidnap governor
  3 days ago

• FARC is being demonized: scholar

  
  The Red Wombat Hole — Authority: 118
  Colombia Reports MONDAY, 21 DECEMBER 2009 07:13 BRYON WELLS A controversial new book by a Canadian scholar who spent nearly ten years studying the FARC-EP says the rebel group has been “demonized” by domestic and foreign powers. His book is intended to dispel the myths surrounding their cause. In an ...
  3 days ago

• Homeland Security: Three Al Qaeda associates charged with narco-terrorism

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 149
  Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Acting Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure and Idriss Abelrahman arrived in the Southern District of New York early this morning ...
  5 days ago

• US charges 3 Al Qaeda men with drug trafficking to finance global terror

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  New York, Dec 19 (IANS) US prosecutors have charged three alleged Al Qaeda associates with trying to set up a drug trafficking ring in Africa to help finance terror operations across the globe.“Today’s allegations reflect the emergence of a worrisome alliance between Al Qaeda and transnational narcotics ...
  6 days ago

• An Al Qaeda FARC Drug Connection?

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 162
  From The New York Times: Federal prosecutors on Friday charged three West Africans with plotting to transport tons of cocaine across Africa in concert with Al Qaeda, using for the first time against that group a 2006 law aimed at drug trafficking that aids terrorism. Federal officials say the case promises to peel ...
  6 days ago

• Colombian Guerrillas Unite

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  Despite profound ideological differences and a long history of fighting between the groups, the two largest Colombian guerrilla armies, the ELN and the FARC, have forged a pact to unite together to fight the country’s security forces. The FARC and ELN have both been losing support and power in Colombia, which may ...
  1 week ago

• Colombian rebel groups join forces to fight against government

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Bogota, Dec 17 (EFE) Colombia’s two largest guerrilla groups have joined forces in the fight against the government of President Alvaro Uribe, the leaders of the two groups said in a joint statement.“We aim to work for unity to confront the current regime with firmness,” the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ...
  1 week ago

• Ecuadors Government Confirms Rumors That Some Officials Are Linked To Colombias Narco Rebels (FARC)

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 162
  Members of Ecuadors Army Elite Force inspect a clandestine FARC base camp found while patrolling the border with Colombia in the Amazon province of Sucumbios on January 31, 2009. Rodrigo Buendia / AFP / Getty Ecuador Officials Linked to Colombia Rebels -- Time Magazine Several former officials of the ...
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• Colombia intercepts smugglers with anti-aircraft ordnance

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Bogota, Dec 16 (EFE) Four Ecuadorian women who were trying to smuggle anti-aircraft ordnance into Colombia have been arrested, police said.The women had entered the country illegally at Ipiales, a town on Colombia’s southern border with Ecuador, and boarded a bus bound for the city of Cali.The arrests were made ...
  1 week ago

• The delayed Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean – a day late due to several work and family related reasons. Thank you for your patience. LATIN AMERICA The FARC and the ‘Peace Community’ Dead End America The Latinobarómetro poll A slow maturing of democracy: More Latin Americans now ...
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• Barack Obama: Did Racism Win Him The Nobel Peace Prize?

  
  PimpThisBlog.com - Latest published stories — Authority: 464
  Barack Obama is going to Oslo to accept his award of the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been the president of the USA for less than a year.The Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to be awarded to the person who, “during the preceding year has done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barack Obama: Did Racism Win Him The Nobel Peace Prize?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  The Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to be awarded to the person who, “during the preceding year has done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”. And, as we all now know, it has been won by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Barack Obama: Why Racism Won Him The Nobel Peace Prize

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 568
  The Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to be awarded to the person who, “during the preceding year has done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses”. And, as we all now know, it has been won by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Venezuela’s new Continental Bolivarian Movement: 15 Minutes on Latin America

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  In Today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, and while we are focused on Tiger Woods’s marital travails, Noticias 24 /AFP report that students, workers, indigenous movements, and other leftist groups met in Caracas this week to create the Movimiento Continental Bolivariano (Continental Bolivarian Movement), which ...
  2 weeks ago

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