(New York, April 21, 2003) The Colombian government is undertaking talks with the country's largest illegal paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de ...

IT IS not quite Afghanistan, but outside that country and the Middle East, it is the American's most expensive foreign entanglement. Since 2000, under an aid programme known as “Plan Colombia”, the ...

Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has presented a bill to his congress that would allow paramilitaries who have committed atrocities to skip prison for a fee. Among them are men that have ordered and ...

The conflict’s recent history is well known. In the early 1980s, a rash of guerrilla kidnapping and extortion led to local alliances of drug traffickers, emerald smugglers, large landowners, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia, Feb. 20 -- Three U.S. congressmen today called for a dramatic response from the Bush administration to track down three American civilians apparently seized by guerrillas after their ...

CARTEGENA DEL CHAIRA, Colombia (CNN) --An explosion in downtown Florencia, Colombia, killed 10 people and wounded 54 others, police said Sunday. Among the dead were two policemen and a 9-year-old boy; ...

On February 12 2003 a Pentagonowned Cessna went down in the jungle of southern Colombia At the crash site guerillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC Colombias largest insurgent ...

Then–Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers, left, walks with Colombia's Armed Forces Army Chief Gen. Jorge Mora Rangel at the Defense Ministry in Bogota, 2003. (AP ...

The British backpacker Mark Henderson and four Israeli companions were released yesterday by Marxist rebels after being held hostage for more than three months in the rainforest of northern Colombia.