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							- Estranged Colombian spouse of ex-hostage Ingrid Betancourt seeks half of her fortune
 - Venezuela deports alleged Colombian cartel boss, other drug suspect to US
 - US gives Colombia passing grade on human rights, frees up more $30 million in military aid
 - Former president of Colombia’s Congress jailed in parapolitics scandal
 - Colombian reporter denies links to rebels, says contacts purely for journalistic work
 - Critics say Mexico slow in acting on lessons from Colombia’s dismantling of killer cartels
 - Another Mexican mayor slain; Clinton angers Mexico by comparing it to Colombia decades ago
 - Mexican mayor killed, marines arrest 7 suspects in massacre of 72 migrants
 - Colombia orders arrest of reporter for alleged leftist rebel ties
 - Captured Mexico drug kingpin ‘the Barbie’ says in video he knew top capos, transported cocaine
 - Purported Texas-born drug kingpin ‘the Barbie’ captured by federal police in central Mexico
 - Prominent Venezuelan drug trafficking suspect, called kingpin by US, arrested in Colombia
 - Colombia’s president says court ruling on base deal won’t affect military cooperation with US
 - Colombia’s hold over rebel regions still tenuous despite US-backed counterinsurgency plan
 - Spying scandal touches Alvaro Uribe’s inner circle as Colombian president set to leave office
 - Canadian man sentenced to 11 years for having sex with young girls in Columbia, Cambodia
 - Venezuela captures 6 purported far-right paramilitary fighters from Colombia near border
 - 3 Colombians brought to US in alleged visa fraud scheme carried out at US embassy in Bogota
 - Federal authorities say alleged Colombian drug traffickers extradited to Boston
 - Venezuela opens coffin of independence hero Simon Bolivar to investigate death
 - Venezuela deports 3 drug suspects including alleged Colombian cartel boss to US
 - Ex-hostage Betancourt says she won’t sue Colombia’s gov’t for damages over her hostage ordeal
 - Betancourt seeks $6.8 million in damages for Colombian hostage ordeal
 - Betancourt seeks $6.5 million in damages for Colombian hostage ordeal
 - US denies visa to Colombian journalist to attend Harvard program
 - Chavez says suspected Colombian drug lord arrested in Venezuela, will be deported to US
 - Drug-smuggling submarine seized in Ecuador jungle is quantum leap for traffickers, DEA says
 - Suspected paymaster of Russian spy ring, now a fugitive, resembled a budget tourist in Cyprus
 - Ecuadoreans, DEA seize drug-smuggling submarine before it can make its maiden voyage
 - Ecuadorians, DEA seize drug-smuggling submarine
 - Nothing to snort at: Colombian authorities find World Cup trophy made of cocaine at airport
 - 3 arrested as Los Angeles toy company accused of laundering drug money
 - Eight-year prison terms imposed in first sentencing of Colombia far-right militia leaders
 - Panama’s ex-dictator Noriega appears confused as he testifies at his money laundering trial
 - Panama’s ex-dictator Noriega goes on trial in France for money laundering
 - Venezuela says it captures suspected drug smuggler wanted in US on cocaine trafficking charges
 - UN: Peru coca production up for 4th straight year, gaining on Colombia as top producer
 - In historic landslide, US-educated former defense chief elected Colombia’s new president
 - Ex-defense minister routs Green Party maverick in Colombia presidential runoff election
 - Ex-defense minister headed toward rout of Green Party maverick in Colombia presidential vote
 - Ex-defense minister takes commanding lead in early returns from Colombia’s presidential vote
 - Ex-defense minister highly favored over Green Party maverick in Colombia presidential vote
 - Murder suspect Van der Sloot leads isolated prison life in Peru
 - Colombian forces find fourth rebel hostage who ran away during raid to free 3 others
 - Colombian awaits US extradition in Argentina, accused of laundering billions in cocaine money
 - Colombian retired colonel gets 30 years for disappearances in 1985 Palace of Justice takeover
 - Colombian con artist pleads guilty in Vt. border crossing case, faces 10 years in prison
 - Clinton, in Latin America, seeks elusive solidarity on immigration, security, Honduras coup
 - Immigration, security issues, Honduras coup are top topics for Clinton in Latin America
 - Ex-Uribe defense minister dominates Colombia vote; to face clean-government outsider in runoff
 - In Colombia presidential vote, maverick outsider vies with Uribe disciple
 - Colombian beauty queen denies to judge she lured Argentine models into drug trafficking ring
 - South African police say Colombia team had money stolen from Johannesburg World Cup hotel
 - Colombia’s President Uribe defends brother against death squad charge, blames criminals
 - Argentine police finally catch former Colombian coffee queen in ‘pretty women’ smuggling plot
 - Colombian beauty queen’s lawyer says Argentines lack evidence she joined drug trafficking gang
 - AP IMPACT: Mexican drug smugglers peddle ultra-pure form of heroin that can kill instantly
 - Slaying of Colombian land activist is latest in series of attacks, rights groups say
 - Venezuela to open military trial for 5 Colombians accused of espionage, sabotage
 - Venezuela arrests man on suspicion of trying to incite assassination of Hugo Chavez
 - Colombia detains congressman who was president’s peace commissioner for alleged drug ties
 - Colombia says it captures high-level suspect in drug trafficking, right-wing militia
 - Cardinal defends church on sex abuse, says then-Cardinal Ratzinger party to controversial note
 - Purported Colombian drug lord arrested in Rio de Janeiro, faces possible extradition to US
 - Last snapshots of cases of Catholic Church transferring or moving priests accused of abuse
 - Snapshots of some cases of Catholic Church transferring or moving priests accused of abuse
 - AP IMPACT: Predator priests shuffled around world, some still at large and still ministering
 - Journalist group demands Colombia do more to probe slaying of indigenous radio director
 - Veteran paramilitary boss, fugitive for more than decade, captured in central Colombia
 - Colombia’s president protests arrests of citizens on spying charges in neighboring Venezuela
 - Venezuela arrests 8 Colombians suspected of espionage, allegedly gathering data on power grid
 - Colombian rebels free soldier held hostage for 12 years, one of FARC’s longest-held captives
 - FARC rebel and 2 collaborators plead guilty to supporting Colombia leftists
 - Colombian narco-terrorist sentenced to 20 years in US prison for role with FARC
 - Costa Rica’s president-elect says she will launch crackdown on drug trafficking gangs
 - Surprisingly strong ballot showing for new Colombian party linked to far-right criminal bands
 - Meryl Streep presents leadership award to ex-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt
 - Former Medellin drug trafficker Evaristo Porras dies at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin
 - Venezuela’s Chavez lashes out at Spain’s prime minister, refuses to respond to accusations
 - Spanish judge accuses Venezuela of collaborating with Basque separatists and Colombian rebels
 - Colombian police capture guerrilla convicted in 2006 killing of sister of former president
 - Colombian leader’s cousin and political ally arrested, accused of colluding with death squads
 - Venezuela deports suspected cocaine traffickers, paramilitary member to US, France, Colombia
 - Inter-American human rights court says Colombia recognizes gov’t role in 1994 killing
 - Venezuelan authorities capture prominent Colombian drug suspect wanted by US
 - Colombia extradites pyramid scheme suspect to face money laundering charges in US
 - At a bend in a Colombian river, a woman salvages human remains from decades of conflict
 - Colombian rebels acknowledge killing kidnapped governor, blame rescue order
 - Colombia extradites pyramid scheme figure to US on money laundering charges
 - Colombian prosecutors order preventative detention of paramilitary in journalist’s slaying
 - Colombia: Coca crop eradication down this year, short of government’s goal
 - Colombian governor believed to have been slain shortly after his abduction by presumed rebels
 - Grim end to governor’s abduction shows deadly threat still posed by leftist rebels in Colombia
 - Abducted Colombian governor found dead less than 24 hours after kidnapping by suspected rebels
 - Rebels blamed for Colombian governor’s kidnapping; 1st major political abduction in years