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Bush Backs New Trade Pact With Colombia
President Bush announced yesterday that he is sending a Colombian free-trade agreement to Congress, moving toward a confrontation with Democrats and labor unions that he could lose during a hotly contested election year.
Washington Post – Apr 8, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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President Bush announced yesterday that he is sending a Colombian free-trade agreement to Congress, moving toward a confrontation with Democrats and labor unions that he could lose during a hotly contested election year.
Washington Post – Apr 8, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Pass Off Bodies as Rebels'
SAN FRANCISCO, Colombia -- All Cruz Elena González saw when the soldiers came past her house was a corpse, wrapped in a tarp and strapped to a mule. A guerrilla killed in combat, soldiers muttered, as they trudged past her meek home in this town in northwestern Colombia.
Washington Post – Mar 30, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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SAN FRANCISCO, Colombia -- All Cruz Elena González saw when the soldiers came past her house was a corpse, wrapped in a tarp and strapped to a mule. A guerrilla killed in combat, soldiers muttered, as they trudged past her meek home in this town in northwestern Colombia.
Washington Post – Mar 30, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Colombia's Rebels Face Possibility of Implosion
PEREIRA, Colombia -- Hungry, desperate and afraid for his life, Pedro Pablo Montoya shot the commander he was supposed to protect. He then severed the commander's right hand -- as proof he'd killed one of Colombia's most wanted men -- and deserted the once-powerful rebel group to whic ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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PEREIRA, Colombia -- Hungry, desperate and afraid for his life, Pedro Pablo Montoya shot the commander he was supposed to protect. He then severed the commander's right hand -- as proof he'd killed one of Colombia's most wanted men -- and deserted the once-powerful rebel group to whic ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 22, 2008 04:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Latin American Crisis Resolved
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 7 -- The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela on Friday agreed to end a bitter standoff that had resulted in troop deployments, a downturn in trade and a rupture in diplomatic relations.
Washington Post – Mar 8, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 7 -- The presidents of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela on Friday agreed to end a bitter standoff that had resulted in troop deployments, a downturn in trade and a rupture in diplomatic relations.
Washington Post – Mar 8, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Colombian Rebels' Ties to Chávez Come Into Focus
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 6 -- A trove of correspondence recovered during a raid on a guerrilla camp is providing a rare window into how Colombia's largest rebel group has drawn closer to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in an effort to acquire money, arms and the political recognition ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 7, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 6 -- A trove of correspondence recovered during a raid on a guerrilla camp is providing a rare window into how Colombia's largest rebel group has drawn closer to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in an effort to acquire money, arms and the political recognition ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 7, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Diplomats Closer To Ending Crisis In Latin America
BOGOTA, Colombia, March 5 -- As Venezuelan troops took up positions on Colombia's border, diplomats at the Organization of American States moved closer Wednesday to resolving a crisis that ignited when Colombia launched a strike against Marxist rebels just inside Ecuador.
Washington Post – Mar 6, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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BOGOTA, Colombia, March 5 -- As Venezuelan troops took up positions on Colombia's border, diplomats at the Organization of American States moved closer Wednesday to resolving a crisis that ignited when Colombia launched a strike against Marxist rebels just inside Ecuador.
Washington Post – Mar 6, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Bush Attends to Foreign Policy Issues
President Bush sought to cope with foreign policy crises on multiple fronts yesterday, reaching out to the president-elect of Russia for the first time and seizing on military tensions in Latin America to renew his quest for congressional approval of a free-trade pact with Colombia.
Washington Post – Mar 5, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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President Bush sought to cope with foreign policy crises on multiple fronts yesterday, reaching out to the president-elect of Russia for the first time and seizing on military tensions in Latin America to renew his quest for congressional approval of a free-trade pact with Colombia.
Washington Post – Mar 5, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Heated Words in Wake of Colombian Raid
RECIFE, Brazil, March 4 -- While troops in Ecuador and Venezuela moved toward their borders with Colombia, the leaders of those three countries moved further from a negotiated solution Tuesday. One ratcheted up his rhetoric, another cut trade ties, and the third warned of a broader regional conflict ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 5, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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RECIFE, Brazil, March 4 -- While troops in Ecuador and Venezuela moved toward their borders with Colombia, the leaders of those three countries moved further from a negotiated solution Tuesday. One ratcheted up his rhetoric, another cut trade ties, and the third warned of a broader regional conflict ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 5, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Stress Builds Over Colombia Raid
RECIFE, Brazil, March 3 -- More accusations of cross-border meddling intensified diplomatic tensions Monday between Colombia and its neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela, as other Latin American leaders tried to defuse a crisis they fear could threaten regional stability.
Washington Post – Mar 4, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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RECIFE, Brazil, March 3 -- More accusations of cross-border meddling intensified diplomatic tensions Monday between Colombia and its neighbors Ecuador and Venezuela, as other Latin American leaders tried to defuse a crisis they fear could threaten regional stability.
Washington Post – Mar 4, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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After Deadly Assault on Guerrillas, Chávez Orders Troops to Colombian Border
Calling a Colombian military strike that killed a guerrilla commander "a cowardly assassination," Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Sunday closed his country's embassy in Colombia and ordered tanks, planes and thousands of troops to the 1,300-mile border the two countries ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 3, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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Calling a Colombian military strike that killed a guerrilla commander "a cowardly assassination," Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Sunday closed his country's embassy in Colombia and ordered tanks, planes and thousands of troops to the 1,300-mile border the two countries ... more »
Washington Post – Mar 3, 2008 05:00 AM [GMT] – comment?
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