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Colombian president threatens to end peace talks with rebels
President Juan Manuel Santos, frustrated over a lack of progress in peace negotiations with leftist FARC rebels, threatened Saturday to abandon bilateral talks to end their nearly 50-year old conflict. “As long as we make progress we’ll be satisfied, but if we do not make progress we’ll leave the negotiating…
Four killed in Brazil Carnival float fire
Four people died early Tuesday when a float at the end of a Carnival parade ran into a power line and caught fire in the southeastern city of Santos, officials said. Three of the victims were pushing the vehicle under the float and the fourth was an onlooker, the office…
Colombia says last top drug lord arrested
Colombia said that Daniel “El Loco” Barrera, alleged to be the country’s last major drug lord, had been caught in neighboring Venezuela in an international sting led from Washington. “The last of the great capos has fallen,” President Juan Manuel Santos announced on national television, adding that the US Central…
Colombian gov’t: FARC rebels have executed 4 military hostages
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian FARC rebels executed four members of the security forces during a botched mission to free them from a decade as hostages, the most violent act by the group since troops killed its leader Alfonso Cano this month. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which has a…
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