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Ecuador anuncia que Betancourt será liberada en las próximas horas

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/?p=12664

By gato-bandido on 2008-03-07 09:54:14. 16 comments.

Allies of Terrorism

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030403068.html The presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador are revealed as backers of the criminals who fight Colombia's democracy. Last Saturday, Colombia's armed forces struck a bold blow against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a group specializing in drug trafficking, abductions and massacres of civilians that has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States and Europe. Raúl Reyes, a ...

By gato-bandido on 2008-03-05 08:41:55. 21 comments.

Tirofijo ordered his men to seek refuge in Venezuela: RCN

The order is from back in 2006. Also, there is an order to kill anyone who does not belong to the FARC but knows the location of their hostages. http://www.canalrcn.com/programas/laNoche/index.php?op=info&idC=48897 "07 de febrero de 2008 EN EXCLUSIVA, La Noche de RCN conoció apartes de una carta que el Ejército le decomisó a las Farc, en la que su máximo jefe, Manuel Marulanda alias "Tirofijo", imparte instrucciones para que sus hombres se refugien en Venezuela. En el documento con ...

By gato-bandido on 2008-02-08 08:53:34. 0 comments.

Sea reportero de la Marcha contra las FARC

Obviously El Tiempo won't have a shortage of material from the march http://www.eltiempo.com/marcha/ but we could have a section like that here on PBH also. Post your photos and videos on Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Youtube, wherever, and link them from here. Now that we are under 24 hours to go till the first march (in Duluth, GA), it's time to charge those batteries! ...

By gato-bandido on 2008-02-01 09:34:22. 15 comments.

Uribe can run for second term: Corte Constitucional

Per El Tiempo:

'El Presidente, �lvaro Uribe, podrá hacer pública su aspiración a la reelección seis meses antes, y a partir de ese momento tendrá que suspender la transmisión por televisión de los consejos comunitarios. "Desde esa fecha -seis meses antes- no puede usar los privilegios de acceso a la radio y televisión oficial para divulgar sus actos de gobierno".' ...

By gato-bandido on 2005-11-11 18:44:03. 0 comments.

Festival Colombia Viva in Duluth GA

There is going to be a Festival Colombia Viva at Gwinnett Place Mall parking lot in Duluth GA, that happens to be just 15 minutes from our place. The only site Google knows about that mentions it is Atlanta Latino. The article does not mention that the festival is planned for Saturday July 23rd, not July 20th.

Supposedly a few well knows artists are expected to be performing, among them Joe Arroyo, el Binomio de Oro, Jo ...

By gato-bandido on 2005-07-19 08:08:34. 0 comments.

Trip to Leticia and Amazonas

We went to Leticia for a week in November 2003 on a tour that included most of the standard excursions offered by the Anaconda Hotel travel agency. Aerorepública seems to be the only airline flying directly from Bogotá to Leticia nowadays.

The first thing that impresses you is the immensely vast rainforest you see from the plane. All you can see from horizon to horizon is green, except for the many rivers running in the middle of the selva. Amazon also looks quite impressive from the ...

By gato-bandido on 2004-03-09 10:28:00. 7 comments.