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Alvaro Uribe
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Uribe’s rising popularity fuels prospects of 3rd term
World |
July 9, 2008
As he stood in the plaza of this remote coffee-growing town hoping for a glimpse of President Alvaro Uribe, cattle rancher Antonio Jaramillo said the reason for Uribe’s striking popularity was simple. Read more
Friday, March 7, 2008
Colombians back president
World |
March 7, 2008
Even at a rally where the placards, chants and speeches carried a distinctly anti-government flavor, Colombians on Thursday backed President Alvaro Uribe after his soldiers’ risky incursion into Ecuador to kill a leftist rebel leader. Read more
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Chavez keeps up campaign to get rebels off terrorist list
World |
January 20, 2008
It might sound like mere semantics. Read more
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Child said to be Colombian hostage’s son
World |
January 5, 2008
In a bizarre turn in a case that has kept this nation in thrall, preliminary blood tests indicate that a child who has been a government ward for more than two years is the son of Clara Rojas, a presidential campaign manager held by leftist rebels who kidnapped her nearly six years ago. Read more
Monday, November 26, 2007
Chavez, Uribe let insults fly after hostage mediation effort
World |
November 26, 2007
Relations between Venezuela and Colombia took a dramatic turn for
the worse Sunday as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called his
Colombian counterpart, Alvaro Uribe, a shameless liar, and Uribe
retorted that Chavez was a “legitimizer of terrorists.” Read more
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Violence votes early in Colombia
World |
October 17, 2007
Colorful banners bearing mayoral candidate Julio Cesar Marentes’
smiling visage are still festooned around this tiny coffee-growing
town even though he was killed by leftist rebels three weeks ago. Read more
