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Eleonore Geer-Brakke, Bouterse's ex-secretary, also testified that Bouterse was at Fort Zeelandia on the day of the killings.

CARACAS, Venezuela : President Hugo Ch vez of Venezuela and President Luiz In cio Lula da Silva of Brazil clasped hands here at a summit meeting late last month, as employees of Venezuela's state oil company ...

According to Colombian media reports, two people died when a cargo plane headed to Miami International Airport crashed moments after taking off in Bogota.

Published: Monday, July 7, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 7, 2008 at 12:12 a.m. QUITO, Ecuador - Hundreds of jailed convicts are celebrating Ecuador's decision to pardon low-level drug couriers ...

The United States government paid nothing for the release this week of 15 hostages held by leftist guerrillas in the Colombian jungle, the US ambassador to Bogota said on Friday.

Will Smith, the closest thing to a sure bet in Hollywood these days, flew to the top of the worldwide box office with his critically mauled superhero saga "Hancock," distributor Columbia Pictures said on ...

Tens of thousands of people crowded into Pamplona's main square Sunday to celebrate the launching of a rocket that each year marks the beginning of Spain's most famous bull-running festival.

'Men and women of Pamplona, all hail to San Fermin,' town councilor Uxe Barkos said from a balcony overlooking the crowd before lighting the fuse, signaling the beginning of nine days of uninterrupted festivities in the northern town.

The San Fermin festival is known around the world for its running of the bulls. The mood and tradition was made famous in 1926 by Ernest Hemingway in his novel 'The Sun Also Rises.'

The sensational rescue of 15 hostages from the grip of Latin America's largest rebel group has highlighted the severely diminished state of an organization that just six years ago threatened to overrun the ...

MEXICO CITY - Sen. John McCain's trip to Colombia and Mexico this week made one thing clear: The shape of the United States' relationship with Latin America will hinge on the outcome of the 2008 election.

Colombia's military says it has found more than a ton of explosives in a house in a rural area outside the capital.

Gen. Luis Perez Arango says the ton of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil was discovered in the town of Bojaca, 20 miles west of Bogota.

Perez says the explosives apparently belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia who may have been planning to use them to carry out attacks in the capital.

No arrests were made during Friday's operation.

Perez said Saturday that Colombia's military is on alert for reprisal attacks by the guerrillas following Wednesday's liberation of 15 rebel-held hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors.

The Colombian fiancee of freed U.S. hostage Keith Stansell has traveled to meet him in Texas along with their 5-year-old twin boys, who will see their father for the first time.

Could Ingrid Betancourt become Colombia's next president? It was one of the first questions she was asked after being freed in a daring helicopter rescue from six years in rebel captivity.

Barack Obama spent the U.S. Independence Day holiday in the western state of Montana, watching a parade, eating a hot dog and trying to woo moderate voters in the traditionally Republican stronghold.

Police in Brazil are investigating whether a body found by sailors belongs to a ballooning priest who disappeared over the southern Atlantic in April.

Col. Ruben Alzate says 46-year-old Thomas Orland MacLean and 48-year-old Jesus Salvador Aristizabal were intercepted by two gunmen as they travelled on a highway near Tulua, a town 240 kilometres southwest of ...

At 26, Lady Bardales had already been many things: a police officer, a security agent to the First Lady, a model and tabloid star.

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Font A world-wide survey done by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research had a surprising result.

The U.S. military says it flew thousands of spy flights over Colombian jungles trying to find and free three Pentagon contractors since their kidnapping in 2003.

Former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt embraced her children for the first time in six years Thursday, saying the thought of them helped her stay alive until a daring rescue plucked her and 14 other ...

At 1530hrs on Wednesday, 02 July 2008 a press conference was held at Gilbert House to set the record straight about an article appearing in last week's Penguin News about British Antarctic Survey ceasing flying ...

Jul 2 - Betancourt was among 15 captives rescued from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops posing as aid workers.

French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three Americans were rescued from leftist guerrillas by Colombian troops, Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos said Wednesday.

''Like the rulers of Iran... Chavez has adopted the tactic of rigging an election by excluding his most formidable opponents in advance.'' JACKSON DIEHL Defenders of Hugo Chavez like to argue there is no ...

A fireman is lowered by a helicopter after he recovered from a tree the body of 18-year-old student Jonathan dos Santos Alves, who died after wandering lost for 42 days in the Amazon jungle RIO DE JANEIRO: A ...

Zimbabwe, torn by political and social strife, is the least happy, while the world's richest nation, the United States, ranks 16th.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused Europe on Tuesday of taking a page from Washington by adopting a barbaric immigration policy, in stark contrast to moves by South American nations to enable ...

Jul. 1 - By day, he walks the streets of Bogota for the Colombian police, but at just about all other times Luis Fernando Lopez is walking to win gold.

Lava burst from the Llaima volcano in southern Chile on Tuesday, but officials said populated areas are not immediately threatened.

For the second time in two weeks, John McCain is taking his presidential campaign across the border.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe deepened his feud with the courts on Monday by going ahead with plans for a referendum aimed at rerunning the 2006 election in which he won a second term.