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Chavez Orders U.S. Ambassador to Leave Venezuela Within 72 Hours
September 11, 2008 ... Hugo Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave within 72 hours, in a show of support for Bolivian President Evo ... -
Colombian Hostages Reunited With Their Families In Venezuela
January 11, 2008 ... Airport near Caracas at 4.30 Thursday afternoon - five hours after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced their ... effort by Chavez and Cordoba to mediate the release of 47 hostages held by the FARC in exchange for 500 guerrilla ... -
Venezuelan and Colombian Presidents Mend Fences
July 12, 2008 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe reconciled and said they “moved on” to overcome differences, following a two-hour private meeting on Friday. -
$300 Million from Venezuela to Colombian Rebels a Fake
March 8, 2008 ... sanctuary to the FARC . Indeed, Ecuador has routed out 47 FARC bases, a better track record than Colombia’s own, ... -
Concern Over Venezuela's Russian Arms Purchases Could Be Misplaced
October 31, 2008 Venezuela's strengthening military and diplomatic ties with Russia have led to alarmist headlines announcing the return of a Cold War standoff, and raising questions about the impact of Hugo Chávez's arms shopping spree on the regional balance of power. -
Gap Between Latin America and Washington Still Growing
June 13, 2008 ... uttered by Chávez about the FARC (out of thousands of hours of his speeches) to describe Chávez as a "staunch FARC ... -
Venezuela Denies Arms Smugglers Caught in Colombia Belong to its Military
June 9, 2008 ... were captured in a flagrant act, from whom 40,000 AK-47 cartridges were confiscated,” Iguarán told the press ... -
Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative (ALBA) Concludes in Venezuela
January 27, 2008 ... as the beginning of a program to reintegrate the country's 47,000 street kids. The three day summit involved a series of ... -
Chavez Reiterates Call on Colombian Rebels to Release All Hostages
June 10, 2008 President Hugo Chávez called on the new leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to liberate all of the insurgent group’s hostages and advance toward a peaceful end to the Colombian conflict in coordination with other Latin American and European nations. -
War vs Peace: Colombia, Venezuela and the FARC Hostage Saga
February 8, 2008 ... conflict, in the first place to negotiate an exchange of 47 FARC-held prisoners for 500 FARC fighters in currently in ... -
Latin America Experts Condemn U.S. Detention and Search of Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba
July 10, 2008 ... agents detained Senator Cordoba for approximately three hours and searched her belongings. During this time, the ... without charges and interrogated for approximately three hours at J.F.K. Airport in New York. Senator Córdoba has ... -
Colombian Hostages Released to Venezuela
January 10, 2008 ... Venezuela, where they will arrive in approximately three hours." Maria Fernanda Perdomo waiting in Caracas to be ... -
The Coddled "Terrorists" of South Florida
January 19, 2008 ... Osiel Gonzalez squints down the worn barrel of an AK-47 rifle and squeezes the trigger. With a crack and kick the ... Miami area residents after they clambered ashore with AK-47 assault rifles, an M-3 carbine fitted with a silencer and ... -
Was the United States Involved in Recent Attacks Targeting the FARC-EP?
March 12, 2008 ... folk-musician), and twenty other members of the FARC-EP. Hours after the assault had taken place Defence Minister ... -
Interpol Says it Found No Evidence of Tampering with Colombian Rebels' Computers
May 15, 2008 ... and ran 10 computers simultaneously and continuously, 24 hours a day, for two weeks. In the days and weeks following ...