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Evidence has surfaced showing the connection between the supporters of deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya and the largest South American supplier of illegal drugs to North America: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This is the missing link that directly explains why Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been openly working [...]

The Colombian leftist guerrilla forces known as the FARC has been holding hundreds of hostages, both Colombians and foreigners. Swedish Erik Ronald Larsson, the last foreigner who was kidnapped in Colombia by the FARC, has regained his freedom from the rural area of Tierradentro in the northwest province of Cordoba. Larsson, a forestry engineer who [...]

On Saturday, March 7, the Colombian Army seized at least four tons of explosives from rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Barrels containing explosives were discovered and confiscated during a military operation in Restrepo, southern Colombia. This is proof that the FARC, once a revolutionary group turned terrorist and drug [...]

While it is old news that the Columbian drug lords use Brazil as a transit point to smuggle cocaine into Europe, the drug trail seems to have changed. No more would you find a lot of smugglers traveling from Columbia to Europe via Brazil. Instead, smugglers are using a safer and easier way by employing West Africans into the drug trade. Columbian cocaine [...]

The bodies could have been buried between 2002 and 2005 supposedly by FARC guerrillas. The mass graves were discovered in an area in the south of the country. The Colombian government has moved in to investigate in the municipality of La Macarena after allegations which villagers relayed to an NGO that advocates human rights. According to sources, one [...]

Colombia has been eagerly awaiting the release of six FARC hostages. Bogota has temporarily withdrawn its army from the area of delivery. Preparations for the release of six Colombians kidnapped by the FARC have been ready. The humanitarian mission of the Red Cross, supported by Brazil, has been most eager and able. On December 21, the Revolutionary [...]

President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia is a popular president, with 70 percent approval ratings after six years in power. He is renowned for his tough stance on “democratic security.” Most of all, he is known for crushing the Marxist rebels, and freeing Colombian cities in the process. Uribe’s government issues the report that approximately [...]