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Brazil is considering nominating Ingrid Betancourt for the post of director of UNESCO, the UN agency for education and culture, Brazilian magazine Veja reports. Tags: Ingrid Betancourt, United Nations

The Colombian government announced it will investigate the leaking of video material that revealed the deliberate abuse of the Red Cross emblem and who within the military lied about using the humanitarian organization’s logo. Tags: Ingrid Betancourt, Military, Red Cross

Colombia Faulted for Use of Red Cross Symbol 7. August 2008 The International Red Cross said that Colombia broke the Geneva Conventions by using the group’s emblem during the operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages last month.

Colombia Assailed for Using Red Cross Symbol in Hostage Rescue 7. August 2008 The International Red Cross said that Colombia broke the Geneva Conventions by using the group’s emblem during the operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages last month.

Andy McCarthy, who prosecuted the perpetrators of the first World Trade Center attack, asks, So … Should Colombia Give the Hostages Back to the Terrorists? The International Committee of the Red Cross is in a snit over Colombia’s use of its emblem during the brilliant rescue operation that freed Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from the FARC terrorist group.

>>> Big new study demonstrates that the U.S. press is not just in bed with Alvaro Uribe, they are actively boning him. >>> After six years in captivity, Ingrid Betancourt just got re-victimized—by National Review!

Colombia apologized to the International Red Cross for the abuse of their logo for the second time, after leaked video footage of operation Jaque showed the emblem wasn’t put on by a nervous soldier during the rescue attempt, as the Colombian government had claimed before, but well before the start of the mission.

Newly released video footage shows more of the operation that rescued Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contract workers and eleven Colombian security officials. Tags: FARC, hostages, Ingrid Betancourt

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Caracas, Venezuela, 27 July, 2008. During his weekly TV show, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tols Colombian Defence Minister,Juan Manuel Santos, that the use of TELESUR logo during the recent intelligence... read more