Colombian brings news of hostages
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A Colombian woman freed last week after six years in rebel hands goes home with news of fellow hostages.
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A Colombian rebel plan to hand over three ailing hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and a Colombian senator is advancing although their release cannot be rushed, a top guerrilla leader said on Monday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says Colombia's Farc rebels have said they are ready to release hostages.
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Venezuela's leftist leader is now working to release the 45 hostages, including three Americans, held in Colombia.
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Helicopters could fly to Colombia Thursday to free two women who have been held hostage for years in the Colombian jungle.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The Colombian government on  Wednesday offered to free 50 jailed guerrillas if Marxist  rebels release the same number of political and military  hostages, some held captive for up to seven years.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - E-mail may be the fastest way  to negotiate a prisoner exchange with the Colombian rebel group  holding 72 hostages, the government said on Wednesday,  declining to explain why it wanted to avoid face-to-face talks.
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If Colombia's leftist rebels safely deliver three hostages to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the goodwill gesture will likely increase pressure for major government concessions to secure the release 44 other high-profile captives.
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Colombian ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt reaches her 1,000th day as a hostage of Marxist guerrillas.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe  authorized France, Spain and Switzerland on Saturday to revive  their efforts to seek an accord with leftist rebels on  releasing scores of hostages, including a French-Colombian  politician and three Americans.
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Colombia's Roman Catholic clergy say they are in contact with Farc rebels in a bid to free more hostages.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez confirmed Saturday that he plans to witness the release of three hostages held for years by the Colombian left-wing guerrilla group FARC.
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BOGOTA/CARACAS  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said a mission to pick up three hostages being held in Colombia by Marxist rebels would begin on Friday.
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By Jason Webb BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia is proposing to meetwith Marxist rebels in a foreign embassy to negotiate therelease of 50 imprisoned guerrillas in exchange for 72 hostagesincluding three Americans.
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MEDELLIN, Colombia, Dec. 19 -- Some came to the Palace of Justice on Tuesday with huge color photographs of their loved ones strapped around their necks. Others wore T-shirts that read "Justice" and "Truth." Maria Eugenia Cobaleda, whose two older brothers were kidnapped in 1998 and never seen...
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Venezuela has started a rescue operation in Colombia to secure the release of two hostages held by leftist rebels, an official said on Thursday, after a similar effort led by President Hugo Chavez collapsed last year.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe freed a jailed guerrilla leader on Monday to try to broker peace talks and negotiate the release of rebel-held hostages, including a French-Colombian politician and three Americans.