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8 Colombian soldiers killed in minefieldBOGOTA, Colombia : Colombia's army says eight soldiers have been killed in a minefield in the country's remote southwest.
Source : topix.net | 12-Oct-2008 10:57
Venezuela pulls Pan Am bid; Toronto, two other cities still in running
Toronto has one fewer competitor in its quest to host the 2015 Pan Am Games. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's office says the group representing the city of Caracas, Venezuela, announced Friday that it had ...
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 10:35
Colombia orders arrest of ex-general
Prosecutors have ordered the arrest of a second retired general in the disappearance of 12 people during the Colombian army's bloody 1985 retaking of the Palace of Justice from leftist rebels.
Source : topix.net | 11-Oct-2008 02:17
Colombian exporters fear U.S. demand drop
Colombian exporters of coffee, cut flowers and textiles say Wall Street's financial crisis has not affected them yet, but they fear shrinking demand in the United States, their biggest market.
Source : topix.net | 10-Oct-2008 18:35
Two Colombians Arraigned in Washington, D.C. on Terrorism and Drug Charges
WASHINGTON Two Colombian citizens who were extradited from the Republic of Colombia earlier this week have made their initial appearances in federal court in Washington, D.C., on terrorism and drug charges ...
Source : topix.net | 09-Oct-2008 18:34
Research and Markets: The Latest Report on the Colombian Pa
RDATE:08102008 Dublin - Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Colombia Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Report Q3 2008" report to their offering.
Source : topix.net | 08-Oct-2008 22:05
Colombian official ties FARC to Mexican drug cartels
Mexico's powerful drug cartels are buying drugs directly from Colombia's main rebel group, a senior Colombian defense official said Tuesday at a hemispheric meeting on crime.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 21:09
Eight dead in Colombia road accident
Buenos Aires, Oct 7 : At least eight people were killed and 12 injured in Colombia when a bus carrying 20 passengers skidded off a mountainous road into a ravine, the Caracol TV channel said Tuesday.
Source : topix.net | 07-Oct-2008 10:47
Time for Tea With Hugo & The Castro Bros.
The Venezuelan government, with help from Cuban military advisors and leftist Colombian guerrillas, is operating a secret paramilitary training camp in a closed-off tourist campground near here, former ...
Source : topix.net | 06-Oct-2008 02:08
Diplomatic breach widens between Colombia, Ecuador
By Hugh Bronstein
BOGOTA (Reuters) - The diplomatic breach between Colombia and Ecuador widened on Saturday when Colombia called on the neighboring country to crack down on rebels using its territory to hold kidnap victims and launch attacks.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, a Wall Street favorite and staunch White House ally, said he has information showing that Marxist Colombian guerrillas have camps on Ecuador's side of the border that are also being used to produce cocaine.
Ecuador broke diplomatic relations with Colombia in March after a Colombian raid carried out on Ecuador's side of the border killed Raul Reyes, a top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
Source : topix.net | 05-Oct-2008 07:40
Colombian Drug Lord Extradited to U.S., Officials Say
An alleged heroin kingpin who recruited police and airline workers and a former naval officer accused of selling navigation charts to cocaine traffickers were extradited from Colombia to the United States, ...
Source : topix.net | 04-Oct-2008 23:39
Diplomat says US has no plans to revive Cold War
The top U.S. diplomat for Latin America says Washington has "no intention" of reviving Cold War rhetoric despite Russia's deepening relations with Venezuela and Bolivia.
Source : topix.net | 03-Oct-2008 23:18
Colombia in shock over killing of baby on father's orders
Millions of Colombians kept a minute's silence over the death of an 11-month-old baby, ordered by his own father apparently to hide the fact he had a child, Colombian media reported Thursday.
Source : topix.net | 02-Oct-2008 22:55
Colombia In Shock Over Grisly Baby Murder
A grisly case of father kidnapping his own baby in Colombia has caused public shock and outrage after the body of the kidnapped boy, only 11 months old, was found on Monday.
Source : topix.net | 01-Oct-2008 22:42
Colombian, Paraguayan Presidents Issue Joint Declaration
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and his Paraguayan counterpart Fernando Lugo issued a join declaration Monday on such issue as security, drug trafficking and cooperation, during Lugo's official visit to ...
Source : topix.net | 01-Oct-2008 14:40
US 'casino' mentality blamed for planet's meltdown
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Astounded by the U.S. government's failure to resolve the financial crisis threatening the foundations of the global free market, fingers of blame are pointing at America from around the ...
Source : topix.net | 01-Oct-2008 06:16
Drug fighting drives 270,000 Colombian from homes
Human rights activists say armed groups forced at least 270,000 Colombians to flee their homes in the first half of this year.
Source : topix.net | 01-Oct-2008 01:16
US imposes sanctions on foreign envoys for Colombia's FARC rebel group
The Treasury imposed the penalties - which freeze all assets in U.S. jurisdiction and bar Americans from dealing with those funds - on FARC operatives who serve on the group's "international commission" under ...
Source : topix.net | 30-Sep-2008 20:51
TB Bacterium Uses Its Sugar Coat To Sweeten Its Chances Of Living In Lungs
Common strains of tuberculosis-causing bacteria have hijacked the human body's immune response to play tricks on cells in the lungs, scientists say.
Source : topix.net | 30-Sep-2008 16:27
UN Calls for Urgent Action Against Alleged Extrajudicial Executions
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia has called on the authorities to take urgent measures to stop a wave of apparent extrajudicial executions after 25 bodies were found in the north of the ...
Source : topix.net | 30-Sep-2008 08:12
Pavlik/BHop Undercard
' Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall is four weeks away from "Unstoppable" - the light heavyweight rumble between undefeated world middleweight champion KELLY "The Ghost" PAVLIK and legendary two-division world ...
Source : topix.net | 30-Sep-2008 00:11
Popular Colombia leader weighs re-election bid
Will he or won't he? Halfway through his second term, Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's wildly popular president, remains coy about whether he will seek a third four-year term in 2010.
Source : topix.net | 29-Sep-2008 00:00
Colombia probes mysterious deaths
Blanca Nubia Monroy's son said he would not be gone long. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos has expressed doubts about a military commander's version of events.
Source : topix.net | 27-Sep-2008 23:47
Trip to Colombia remembered in 'Dog Days' photos
An exhibit of photographs taken in Bogota, Colombia, is on display at the Stephen Daiter Gallery in River North.
Source : topix.net | 27-Sep-2008 15:33
Nine oil companies invest in Colombia oil exploration
A Shell service station seen on September 20 in Manassas, Virginia. Colombia has signed contracts with nine oil companies, including Shell, worth 500 billion dollars to explore for oil near the border with ...
Source : topix.net | 27-Sep-2008 07:15
Biden meets with Georgian president without press
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden met with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Friday but didn't let reporters in as the pair posed for photographers at the beginning of the session.
Source : topix.net | 26-Sep-2008 22:55
Colombia Seeks Legalizing Murder, Says Bioethicist
ROME, SEPT. 25, 2008 .- Colombia's draft law on euthanasia and assisted suicide would introduce "legal murder," which is a "juridical contradiction," warns an internationally renowned Catholic expert in ...
Source : topix.net | 26-Sep-2008 14:35
Votorantim, Acesco plan steel plant in Colombia
Brazil's Votorantim and Colombia's Acesco are planning to build a steel plant in Colombia with an investment of $1.5 billion.
Source : topix.net | 26-Sep-2008 06:20
Colombia arrests interior minister's brother
The brother of Colombia's powerful interior minister was arrested Thursday as a scandal over ties to outlawed paramilitary drug gangs spread among Colombia's ruling elite.
Source : topix.net | 25-Sep-2008 22:07
Happy Henry briefs Perky Palin and the world does not end
I don't agree with those muttering darkly that the picture of Gov. Sarah Palin with a perky smile and shapely gams posing with a pleased Henry Kissinger, famous for calling power the ultimate aphrodisiac, is a ...
Source : topix.net | 25-Sep-2008 17:24
Late rebel leader to get monument in Venezuela
A monument to the late Colombian rebel leader Manuel Marulanda, who died in March at age 78, is going up in a poor Caracas neighborhood.
Source : topix.net | 25-Sep-2008 09:23
Latin American leaders speak at UN assembly
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has told the United Nations General Assembly that Colombia suffers from violence due to illegal drugs.
Source : topix.net | 25-Sep-2008 04:51
Colombia Acts To Grapple With Rainy Season Havoc
At least three people have been killed, 19 injured and over 3,200 rendered homeless by floods caused by the onset of the second rainy season in Colombia, authorities said on Tuesday.
Source : topix.net | 24-Sep-2008 16:52
Betancourt not willing to return home because of threats
Bogota, Sep 23 : Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was held hostage by leftist rebels for more than six years before her rescue in early July, has said she is not yet ready to ...
Source : topix.net | 24-Sep-2008 08:10
Armed groups want land owned by Black Colombians
Threats from armed men in civilian dress have forced a human rights defender from the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission to flee Bajo Atrato, an area of Colombia where oil palm plantations have ...
Source : topix.net | 24-Sep-2008 00:07
Bush seeks to assure leaders about bailout plan
President Bush gestures during a news conference with Colombia President Alvaro Uribe in the Rose Garden at the White House, Saturday, Sept.
Source : topix.net | 23-Sep-2008 15:48
Palin's Foreign-Policy Chops
Leadership: If anything shows how Democrats are beneath their office, it's how they snubbed the visiting leader of Colombia on his current trip.
Source : topix.net | 23-Sep-2008 04:11
Palin will meet with Kissinger and foreign leaders
WASHINGTON : Governor Sarah Palin will meet with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia as the United Nations General Assembly opens on Tuesday, an aide to Senator John ...
Source : topix.net | 22-Sep-2008 15:35
700 Billion Dollars
The Bush administration on Saturday raised the price tag on its emergency plan to revive the U.S. financial system, asking Congress for authority to spend up to $700 billion to relieve crippled financial ...
Source : topix.net | 21-Sep-2008 16:20
Palin will meet with Karzai, Kissinger, Uribe
Fox News' Hunter Ryan has learned that Sarah Palin's meeting with Karzai will be on Tuesday.
Source : topix.net | 21-Sep-2008 06:32
US, Colombia sign pact on energy development
The US and Colombia have signed an agreement to cooperate and share technology on the development of alternative and renewable energy.
Source : topix.net | 21-Sep-2008 01:24
Bush defends massive financial rescue proposal
President Bush defended the $700 billion cost of his financial bailout proposal, saying Saturday it needed to be massive so that turmoil on Wall Street did not spread to Main Street.
Source : topix.net | 20-Sep-2008 17:12
Uribe presses for quick U.S. action on trade deal
By Doug Palmer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Colombia President Alvaro Uribe pressed on Friday for the U.S. Congress to quickly approve a bilateral free-trade agreement that was sidelined in April by House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"We are hopeful that we can at any moment have the approval in the United States Congress of our free-trade agreement," Uribe said in a speech at the Brookings Institution at the start of two-day effort to boost chances for the deal.
Uribe also said he talked by telephone on Thursday with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who has been opposed to the Colombia pact.
Source : topix.net | 19-Sep-2008 23:31
Ex-hostage's mom, once a critic, turns Colombian
Thu, Sep 18, 2008 Before her son's rescue in July, the mother of a U.S. military contractor held captive by leftist rebels often swore at Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.
Source : topix.net | 19-Sep-2008 04:14
Hit Colombian TV series breaks cocaine taboo
Colombians do not like outsiders portraying their country as a cocaine nation, but that's not keeping many from watching a smash local soap opera about their multibillion-dollar narcotics trade.
Source : topix.net | 18-Sep-2008 19:09
Colombian General Linked To Death Squads
A former Colombian paramilitary fighter has named the nation's top general as a collaborator with death squads.
Source : topix.net | 18-Sep-2008 07:47