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06/01/2010 Colombia Votes for Democracy
Defying the pollsters who had predicted a tight presidential election and pleasantly surprising defenders of democracy in Latin America, Colombian voters Sunday gave a resounding first-round lead to a strong U.S. ally and rebuked the growing socialist ...

05/25/2010 Colombian Crossroads
They are our strongest allies in Latin America, constantly guarding the front line against the socialist, anti-American movement that has been growing in our own backyard. And yet, many Americans are not even aware that our Colombian allies are facing ...

07/08/2008 Ingrid Walks Free, But Where Does She Stand?
When I met her, about a month before she was kidnapped by leftist guerrillas in Colombia, Ingrid Betancourt struck me as an idealist bordering on naive. We were in New York, and she was going back to Colombia to run for president, but somehow, she ...

07/01/2008 Colombians Worship 2 Gods
CARTAGENA, Colombia — Amid all the historical information going back several centuries, the tour guide kept referring to the past six years. It was unusual, given the fact that recent history doesn't normally compare to ancient times, especially ...

06/17/2008 The Most Hated Woman in Colombia
BARRANQUILLA, Colombia — Everywhere you go in this country, the mere mention of her name evokes angry reactions. Cursing is people's preferred method to describe how they feel about Colombian leftist Senator Piedad Cordoba. And it's all ...

05/27/2008 Driving out of the FARC Tunnel
The death of Colombian rebel leader Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, following a series of major setbacks to his Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), could mark the beginning of the end of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil ...

03/04/2008 War Is Knocking on Our Back Door
At first, you get the impression that the Colombians overplayed their hand. You don't send armed troops across a border with a neighboring country — not even if you are chasing wanted criminals — unless you have permission from your ...

02/05/2008 Free Trade for Freedom
In these hard economic times, there are many compelling arguments against the free trade agreements we have been making lately. Too many American jobs, instead of U.S. products, are getting exported. But if there were ever a country that we ...

02/13/2007 Colombia Forced to Gamble With Hostages' Lives
When I first met her in New York five years ago, Ingrid Betancourt was campaigning to be president of Colombia. She had been a strong critic of the leftist guerrillas who had caused so much bloodshed in her war-torn homeland, and she knew her ...

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