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Catholics seeking negotiations with Colombian rebels
... Cardinal Dario Castrillon said the plan to seek talks with the FARC was approved by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, whose US-backed army offensive has battered the guerrilla group to its weakest level in decades. The proposal for dialogue with ... Comment?
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Hostages freed in daring rescue that tricked Columbia guerillas
... leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops posing as aid workers. The rescue was a huge coup for popular President Alvaro Uribe, an anti-guerrilla hard-liner who has used billions of dollars in U.S. aid to push the rebels onto the defensive, cut crime ... Comment?
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Catholic Church Seeks Talks With Colombia Rebels
... begin. Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon said the plan to seek talks with the FARC was approved by President Alvaro Uribe, whose U.S.-backed army offensive has battered the guerrilla group to its weakest level in decades. The proposal for dialogue ... Comment?
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Tension Prevails between Venezuela, Colombia
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... irs Francisco Arias, Silvai 1 2s words go against the normalization goals of bilateral links that his President Alvaro Uribe claims to pursue. mh/lch/rsm Modificado el ( jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2009 ) Comment?
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Colombian Government Urged to Facilitate Release
... the kidnapping and killing of Governor of southern Caqueta department Luis Cuellar, attributed by President Alvaro Uribe to a FARC guerrilla commando. In Lozano's opinion, such actions contribute to worsen the conflict and reinforce militarism and ... Comment?
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Governor's killing signals return of Colombia's FARC rebels
... The bold rebel raid -- about 250 miles south of the capital -- indicates that the effectiveness of President Alvaro Uribe's campaign to crush the rebel attacks with the use of government-paid informants, military air strikes and calls for desertion ... Comment?
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World in Brief, Dec. 23
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... armed rebels. The kidnappers killed him while they were being chased by authorities, said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on national television. The governor's son, Luis Fernando Cuellar, has told Columbian media that he thinks the Revolutionary ... Comment?
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Abducted Colombian politician found dead
... ional Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, were accompanying the defense minister to Florencia. Later Tuesday, President Alvaro Uribe publicly ordered the armed forces to mount a rescue mission.IANS Comment?
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Governor's murder stirs criticism of Uribe, rebels
... success of the government's U.S.-backed security campaign. In the biggest political kidnapping since President Alvaro Uribe came to power in 2002, Caqueta state Governor Luis Cuellar was snatched from his home by armed guerrillas on Monday. The ... Comment?
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Mother's grief over son's missing body
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... of Caqueta in southern Colombia Monday night and kidnapped him. His body was discovered Tuesday . President Alvaro Uribe is ordering his troops to get tough. "We have to use all of our force. We cannot submit to the whims of the terrorists who bathe ... Comment?
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Bloodshed signals FARC resurgence
... Deadly abduction -- Colombia's rebels still threat At the end of a day of anguish and frustration, President Alvaro Uribe soberly told Colombians that kidnappers had slit the throat of a southern governor during the country's first major political ... Comment?
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Funeral held for Colombia governor
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... operation in which Cuellar was killed. "They murdered him, they cut his throat, they miserably murdered him," Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian president, said in a televised address on Tuesday. "The authorities explained that the terrorists didn't shoot ... Comment?
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Official: Governor slain shortly after abduction
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... the midst of pain, we reiterate today all our determination to defeat these terrorists," Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said in a televised speech to the nation late Tuesday. Uribe said senior military officials told him that "because security ... Comment?
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... kidnapped late on Monday, security official Edilberto Ramon Endo told The Associated Press. A grim President Alvaro Uribe later went on national television to say Cuellar's throat had been cut, speaking in a sober monotone, in contrast to his anger ... Comment?
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Colombia Governor's Murder Draws Wide Condemnation
The international community on Wednesday condemned the murder of a Colombian governor in a high-profile abduction that President Alvaro Uribe blamed on rebels who are resisting his U.S.-backed army offensive. Comment?
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Rebels' show of force as they kidnap and kill Colombian governor
... "The terrorists did not shoot the governor, but to avoid the noise of gunshots, they cut his throat," president Alvaro Uribe said in an address to the nation. Mr Cuellar had been kidnapped four times before, and there have been questions over the ... Comment?
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16:46 Colombian Govt Urged ...
... the kidnapping and killing of Governor of southern Caqueta department Luis Cuellar, attributed by President Alvaro Uribe to a FARC guerrilla commando. In Lozano's opinion, such actions contribute to worsen the conflict and reinforce militarism and ... Comment?
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Colombia: Releases Without Guarantees
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Bogota, Dec 23 The death of the governor of the department of Caqueta Luis Cuellar, holds back the possibility of achieving the announced unilateral release of two soldiers detained by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia The process was without guarantees after president Alvaro Uribe ordered a military rescue of all the hostages held by ... Comment?
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Colombia: Protect Witnesses in Paramilitary Cases
... Semana , a leading newsmagazine in Colombia, reported in mid-2008 that he had met with advisers to President Alvaro Uribe in the Presidential Palace in Bogota in April 2008. Job was killed in Medellin a few weeks later. Memin was subsequently ... Comment?
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... that border Florencia, where the pickup was abandoned and found in flames, Paez said. A furious President Alvaro Uribe, whose rancher father was killed by leftist rebels in a botched 1983 kidnapping, had ordered soldiers and police to rescue ... Comment?
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