Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces

One rebel, call her Angelly, hijacked a private airplane to escape the guerrilla ranks. The other, Marilu Ramirez, is charged as a modern-day Mata Hari who at the time of her arrest had infiltrated the highest levels of Colombia's military establishment. The stories of the two women, both members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have riveted Colombians' attention in recent weeks, presenting the two faces of the guerrilla movement.

Colombian Marxist guerrillas said they would turn over three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez or his representatives, just weeks after the government in Bogota ended his efforts to broker the release of captives. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said it had ordered Clara Rojas, her son Emmanuel and Consuelo Gonzalez released, according to Cuban news agency Prensa Latina, which obtained the rebel statement.

A Venezuelan mission to pick up three hostages held for years by Colombian rebels in jungle camps was delayed because guerrilla leaders had not given the final go-ahead. After weeks of promising to release two former politicians and the young son born to one of them in captivity, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, has not yet revealed their location, Red Cross officials said.

Colombian rebels killed at least seven police officers in their first serious attack against workers ripping out coca plants in Macarena National Park, police said. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, fired a mortar shell at police officers guarding the workers and followed up with fire from assault rifles, an officer said. Hundreds of workers were sent last month to remove the source of cocaine from the park.

Marxist rebels attacked a remote village with mortar shells and assault rifles, killing a baby and a police officer in the latest violence before legislative elections, police said. A rebel also was killed in the nighttime raid on Monte Bonito in the coffee-growing province of Caldas in central Colombia, a police spokesman said. Fifteen civilians and police were wounded in the attack by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish initials FARC.

The U.S. government announced charges in Washington on Wednesday against 50 leftist Colombian guerrilla leaders in connection with shipments of $25 billion in cocaine to the United States and other countries. The guerrillas, all leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were charged with managing the smuggling of 60% of all the cocaine consumed in the United States over the last decade or so, shipments that allegedly have totaled 2,750 tons.

Marxist rebels killed at least 15 soldiers in two incidents Wednesday in the worst single day of troop losses this year, the Colombian army's commander said. Troops also killed an indeterminate number of rebels in the battles with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in the provinces of Meta and Valle del Cauca, Gen. Mario Montoya said. The Colombian military has gone on the offensive in recent weeks to limit rebel action before the May 28 presidential election.

The violence has come too close for comfort for dairy farmer Edgar Vargas, whose family has raised cattle on their ranch near the Colombian border for three generations. First his friend and fellow rancher Mario Vassallo was kidnapped and killed in February. Then a neighbor, Salvador Ferrante, was kidnapped and spent three weeks in a Colombian rebel camp before his family paid a $600,000 ransom.

The transition from guerrilla to government control has not been easy for this town in southwestern Colombia. Just ask Dr. Alejandro Moreno, the head of the local medical clinic. He's been jailed twice for suspected "rebellion" and collaboration with leftist guerrillas, charges he denies.

Ana Hilda Vargas was living in a place called Hope when the gunmen came to her farm and gave her an ultimatum: Leave your house in 48 hours or be killed. "Everything I built in my youth and all that I had -- pigs, hens, mango and avocado trees, yucca, corn and bean fields -- I lost that day," Vargas said, recalling the terrible morning in 1997 when she was thrown off her land in the village of Esperanza by paramilitary members. It wouldn't be the last time she would hear that chilling warning.