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Colombia to extradite accused Venezuelan drug lord (Reuters)

November 16th, 2010

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks during his weekly broadcast 'Alo Presidente' at Miraflores Palace in Caracas November 14, 2010.  REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSReuters - Colombia will extradite a businessman accused of being a drug kingpin back to his native Venezuela, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday, in a move bound to…

Colombia: No. 2 rebel commander killed in raid (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

FILE - In this June 28, 2001, file photo, Jorge Briceno, military commander of the Colombian rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, smiles at a rebel camp in La Macarena, Colombia. National police spokesman Wilson Vaquero told The Associated Press that Briceno, also known as Mono Jojoy, was killed Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, in Colombia's eastern plains during a military raid. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, file)AP - Colombia’s military killed the No. 2 leader and top military strategist of the country’s main rebel army in blistering bombardments of a major jungle camp, officials announced Thursday,…

Colombia: No. 2 rebel commander killed (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

AP - Colombian authorities say the field marshal and No. 2 commander of the country’s main leftist rebel group has been killed in a military raid.

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130 survive ‘miracle’ plane crash in Colombia (AP)

August 17th, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XBOG102 ** A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - Survivors say everything seemed normal as a jetliner with 131 people on board prepared to land in a storm on a Caribbean resort island. Suddenly it plunged to…

‘Miracle’ in Colombia crash: Woman dies, 130 live (AP)

August 16th, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF XBOG102 ** A police officer stands by a crashed plane sitting on the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. The region’s…

‘Miracle’ in Colombia jet crash: 1 dies, 130 live (AP)

August 16th, 2010

A plane that crashed lays in pieces along the runaway at the airport on San Andres island in Colombia, Monday Aug. 16, 2010. The Boeing 737 operated by the airline Aires crashed on landing after departing from Bogota around midnight local time with 131 passengers. According to an Air Force official, at least one passenger died.  (AP Photo/Periodico El Isleno, Richard Garcia)AP - A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke into three pieces as it slid onto the runway on a Colombian island on Monday.…

Bomb wracks offices in Colombia capital, injures 9 (AP)

August 12th, 2010

Agents from the police anti explosive unit, inspect the wreckage of a car bomb that exploded outside the building of Caracol Radio station in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The explosion shook Colombia's capital on Thursday, injuring at least six people, police said. No deaths were reported. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)AP - A car packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives blew up in an office district of Colombia’s capital Thursday, shattering windows in dozens of buildings…

Explosion near Colombia radio injures several (AP)

August 12th, 2010

AP - A car bomb exploded outside a major radio station shook Colombia’s capital on Thursday, injuring at least six people, police said. No deaths were reported.

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Colombia, Venezuela restore diplomatic relations (AP)

August 11th, 2010

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, right, receives, from Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, a biography of Simon Bolivar by Felipe Larrazabal as a present during a joint press conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Santos and Chavez announced they will restore diplomatic relations severed 20 days ago by Caracas, ending a dispute over allegations that Colombian rebels have camps in Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - The leaders of Colombia and Venezuela have re-established diplomatic relations, saying they are starting to repair confidence undermined by years of recriminations between the two countries.


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Analysis: Obstacles as Chavez warms to Colombia (AP)

August 11th, 2010

AP - In less than three weeks, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez went from warning of a war with Colombia to offering ideas for peacemaking in his neighbor’s decades-long conflict with…