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A former senator close to President Alvaro Uribe was freed from prison on Wednesday, four months after his arrest on charges of colluding with far-right death squads.

Father Hernando Diaz sits in the chapel of St. Marguerite's on Thursday. Diaz succeeded Father Matthew Wixted as pastor of the parish on Aug.

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Colombian authorities have arrested a former Union County man suspected of leading of a notorious heroin-smuggling ring.

Supporters of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe delivered more than 5 million signatures, hauled in three trucks, to election authorities Monday calling for a referendum on whether he should be allowed to run for a third consecutive term.

Uribe hasn't said if he will seek a third term or not, but his approval ratings have soared to above 80 percent following the military rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. contractors from leftist guerrillas. The 56-year-old leader's surge in popularity has fueled hopes by his backers that he will seek to return to office.

The road up to the La Loma neighborhood of Medell n, Colombia is built for cars, trucks and buses.

Seven people were killed and nearly 50 wounded in the most serious Colombian guerrilla attack this year when a bomb exploded in a small town as residents celebrated a festival, officials said on Friday.

The Caracas-based TV channel, most of whose funding comes from the government of Hugo Chavez, was accused in May of faking the origin of a Farc video.

The following was translated to English by La Chiva : ALERT: CAMPAIGN OF TERROR BEGINS AGAINST INDIGENOUS NASA IN CAUCA, COLOMBIA 11 August 2008 Earlier this afternoon, the Association of Indigenous Authorities ...

BOGOTA * Colombia may send soldiers to Afghanistan and attach them to Spanish forces already in the country, the head of the nation's armed forces said yesterday.

Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey says Switzerland and Colombia have moved past a dispute over Colombia's use of the Red Cross logo.

Calmy-Rey, who arrived in Bogota on Sunday, says she has 'noted that the Colombian government has apologized' for a soldier wearing the Red Cross logo during the July 2 operation in which the Colombian army freed 15 rebel hostages.

The Colombian government said the soldier put on the logo during the operation as he became nervous about confronting armed rebels. A local television station released a video last week, however, showing the soldier wearing it from the start of the operation.

"It is a serious matter that members of the armed forces clandestinely leaked news without coordination with their superiors," says a presidential communique issued in Colombia after a local TV station ...

EasyFly S.A. of Colombia has bought a further five Jetstream 41 regional turboprop airliners from BAE Systems Regional Aircraft to accelerate the second phase of its development plan to expand regional services ...

In Paris, they call it La Plage, or the beach. And in Bogota, Colombia, it's Ciclovia, or bikeway.

In New York, nearly seven miles of Manhattan became traffic-free for six hours Saturday, creating a weekend playground for bikers, walkers and loungers.

'Bellissimo!' declared Antonio de Lucia, a tourist from Caserta, Italy, who read about the event and decided to walk from his Chinatown hotel to a friend's Times Square restaurant _ with all his luggage. An hour into his hike, he was smiling as he sauntered up a stretch of Park Avenue awash in cyclists, pedestrians and in-line skaters. One man on a bicycle swooped down a sloped section of the avenue yelling 'whee!' at full voice.

Bogota, Aug 6 The polemics on the illegal use of the Red Cross logo by Colombian military continued Wednesday with strong criticism.

Naranjo, speaking on Thursday at an anti-drug summit, said that in 2002, when President Alvaro Uribe first took office, Colombia produced 90 percent of the world's cocaine - but that has dropped today to 54 ...

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe says he wants the U.S. to be tougher on cocaine traffickers extradited from his nation.

Colombian police thwarted two car bombings FARC rebels had planned for Bogota during Thursday's Independence Day celebrations, and arrested five rebels, officials said.

The international Red Cross said Wednesday it deplored the apparent "deliberate misuse" of its emblem by Colombian forces during the liberation of hostage Ingrid Betancourt last month.

The three former hostages had been held in the Colombian jungle by the members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for over five years, until they were rescued last month by Colombian military forces.