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Germans Held by Colombian Rebels are Released After 4 Months
March 8, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The smaller of Colombia's two main guerrilla groups on Friday handed over two German captives to a humanitarian commission, ending their four-month ordeal, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. continue reading »
ELN Rebel Group Release Kidnapped Mine Workers in Colombia
February 16, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Five foreign workers kidnapped last month from a mining project in northern Colombia were released Friday by the smaller of the Andean nation's two main guerrilla groups, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. continue reading »
FARC Release 3 Kidnapped Engineers in Colombia
February 1, 2013 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombia's FARC rebels have freed the three petroleum engineers they had kidnapped in the country's southwest, a police spokesman told Efe Thursday. continue reading »
President Reagan Gave CIA Authority to Establish the Contras in 1981
November 23, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Today in Latin American History
Today in Latin American history, President Ronald Reagan signs off on a top secret document which gave the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) the power to recruit and support Nicaraguan rebels to conduct covert actions against the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. continue reading »
Colombia Must Finish Peace Talks with FARC Before Extending to Other Guerrilla Group
November 18, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told Efe that for now his country's No. 2 guerrilla group, the ELN, will not be joining the peace process Bogota has opened with the larger FARC. continue reading »
Norway Confirms Peace Talks Between Colombia and FARC WIll Begin Oct. 17
October 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Peace talks between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrilla group will officially begin on Oct. 17 in Oslo, a spokeswoman for the Norwegian foreign ministry said Thursday. continue reading »
Paraguayan Rebels Say Group is “Armed Wing” of Country’s Poor
September 29, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The purported commander of the shadowy Army of the Paraguayan People, or EPP, said in a video that his small group is the "armed wing" of the Paraguayan poor and called for the elimination of private property in the impoverished South American country. continue reading »
Ceasefire Will Not Hinder Peace Talks, Says Colombian Rebels
September 9, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, guerrilla group told a Bogota daily that upcoming peace talks with the government will not break down if its request for an immediate truce is not granted. continue reading »
FARC Seek An Immediate Bilateral Ceasefire in Colombian Peace Talks
September 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Representatives of Colombia's FARC rebel group said here Thursday they will immediately propose a bilateral ceasefire once peace talks get underway with the government. continue reading »
Colombia, FARC Rebels to Begin Peace Talks Next Month in Norway
September 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Representatives of the Colombian government and the Andean nation's largest guerrilla group, the FARC, will sit down next month in Oslo for talks aimed at ending their decades-long conflict. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Bomb Oil Depot in Colombia
August 15, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Leftist FARC guerrillas mounted bomb attacks Tuesday on an oil depot and an electric pylon in the northeastern province of Norte de Santander, Colombian authorities said. continue reading »
FARC Commander Involved in 2011 Terrorist Attack Killed
August 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A FARC commander suspected of being involved in a 2011 bombing that killed the highway patrol chief of the northwestern Colombian province of Antioquia has been killed, the Army News Agency reported. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Attack Police Checkpoint 1 Killed, 2 Wounded
August 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Suspected FARC guerrillas killed one police officer and wounded two others in an ambush in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, officials said Saturday. continue reading »
FARC Celebrate Colombia’s Independence By Attacking Police, Dynamiting Bridge
July 21, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
One police officer was killed and five others wounded Friday in an attack by leftist FARC rebels as Colombia celebrated 202 years of independence from Spain. continue reading »
Bomb Detonates, Killing Rebels Before They Could Attack Police Post
June 7, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Two members of the FARC guerrilla group were killed when a bomb they were planning to launch at a police post accidentally detonated, Colombian police said Thursday. continue reading »
Mass Graves Found in Colombia, Believed to Contain “Disappeared” and FARC Remains
June 6, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Army troops found a FARC cemetery containing numerous graves in the southern province of Caqueta, Colombian armed forces commander Gen. Alejandro Navas said. continue reading »
FARC Rebels Recruited Teens Against Their Will in Colombia
May 19, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
Colombia's FARC guerrillas pulled at least 13 teenagers out of boarding schools in the southern province of Putumayo and forced them to join the ranks of the insurgency, a prominent human rights activist told Efe on Friday. continue reading »
