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Thursday, 16 February 2012 14:05 Adriaan Alsema Alvaro Uribe loyalists are studying the possibility of amending the Colombian constitution to allow the former president to be re-elected for a third term.
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia is redesigning its fight against Marxist guerrillas, making the destruction of key rebel military and financial units as much of a goal as killing their leaders, sources familiar with the plan say. Helped by billions of dollar
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The CIA can (and does) point to its role in the arrest or elimination of a number of major Colombian traffickers. These arrests have not diminished the actual flow of cocaine into the United States, which on the contrary reached a new high in 2000. But t
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Alvaro Uribe, former president of Colombia, addressed security issues in Latin America to a capacity audience of 400 people in the Knight Management Center Cemex Auditorium Tuesday. The South American leader acknowledged claims of human rights violations
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(AP) BOGOTA, Colombia The chief prosecutor's office obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas. Luis Carlos Restrepo i
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2012-02-10 11:01 Bogota - The chief prosecutor's office obtained an arrest warrant on Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas. Luis Carlos Res
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's chief prosecutor's office said Thursday it was seeking the arrest of ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas.
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9 February 2012 Last updated at 17:37 ET Luis Carlos Restrepo (c) has denied any involvement in the bogus demobilisations An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Colombian peace commissioner on suspicion of faking the demobilisation of rebels. Lui
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LIBARDO CARDONA, Associated Press Updated 03:32 p.m. , Thursday, February 9, 2012 BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Colombia's chief prosecutor issued an arrest warrant Thursday for ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing
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Luis Carlos Restrepo is the third for
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tool goes here BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's chief prosecutor's office said Thursday it was seeking the arrest of ex-President Alvaro Uribe's longtime peace commissioner for allegedly choreographing the bogus surrender of a column of leftist guerrillas.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombia's chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the peace commissioner of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for allegedly arranging a bogus demobilization of leftist guerrillas. Luis Carlos Restrepo is the third former close assoc
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Colombia's chief prosecutor has issued an arrest warrant for the peace commissioner of ex-President Alvaro Uribe for allegedly arranging a bogus demobilization of leftist guerrillas. Luis Carlos Restrepo is the third former close associate of Uribe to fa
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BOGOTA: One of Colombia’s most-wanted former paramilitary commanders with suspected links to the cocaine trade has been captured in neighbouring Venezuela, both nations said on Monday. After years of acrimony, improved relations between Caracas and Bogot
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BOGOTA (Reuters) - One of Colombia's most-wanted former paramilitary commanders with suspected links to the cocaine trade has been captured in neighboring Venezuela, both nations said on Monday. After years of acrimony, improved relations between Caracas
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The now-demobilized paramilitary organization AUC received the support of Colombia's intelligence agency DAS, and helped the government of former President Alvaro Uribe in a conspiracy to discredit the country's Supreme Court, ex-commander "Don Berna" te
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The Eurozone is about to collapse. The United States is struggling out of the deepest recession since World War II. And the IMF forecasts global growth will drop from 5% in 2011 to 2.6% in 2012. How about investing in a safe haven far away from all of th
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Opposition hopeful Pablo Martin Perez Alvarez, more commonly referred to as Pablo Perez, is the brainchild of fugitive opposition politician Manuel Rosales. Having fled the country in 2009 to avoid charges of corruption, Rosales announced the Perez candi
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has seen more lucrative days. The-guerrilla-army-turned-drug-cartel has seen its homelands, its outposts and — most importantly — its cocaine revenue chipped away in recent years by record seizures of
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Colombia has moved aggressively to combat the FARC rebels. (LUIS ROBAYO/AFP/Getty Images) LIMA, Peru — The Marxist terrorist group that has immersed Colombia in decades of vicious civil war is offering to hold peace talks with the government. In the lett
About Alvaro Uribe
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Álvaro Uribe Vélez (IPA: ['alβ̞aɾo u'ɾiβ̞e v'̞eles], born July 4, 1952 in Medellín), is a Colombian politician and lawyer who is currently the 39th President of the Republic of Colombia for the term 2006 – 2010. Uribe finished Law in the University of Antioquia, then he did a course in management at Harvard University. After he finished his... Full Article
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