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| Jan.10 |
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Car bomb wounds 15
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| Jan.12 |
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President tours Medellin
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| Jan.25 |
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Government urged to continue talks
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| Jan.30 |
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Hijacker overpowered Crew & passengers overpower hijacker. 23 passengers and 4 crewmembers were unharmed
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| Feb.8 |
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President to meet rebel chief
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Talks with rebels President Pastrana will spend the night in rebel territory after talks with commanders failed to bring the agreement
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| Feb.9 |
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Agreement with FARC leader| President Pastrana reached an agreement with the rebel group to resume peace negotiations and aim for a resolution of civil war | | |
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| Mar.1 |
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Bomb cause power outage
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| Mar.10 |
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Rebel group suspends peace talks
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| Mar.11 |
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Night Without Men
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| Mar.16 |
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Bishop to remain in jail
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| Apr.6 |
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Mexican president presses rebels
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| Apr.10 |
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FARC commander sought Prosecution service has ordered the arrest of a leftist rebel commander for drug trafficking
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| Apr.16 |
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30 killed by paramilitaries Rightist fighters reportedly massacred 30 people in the the mountain hamlets
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Rebels kidnap oil workers Nearly 100 employees of the US oil company Occidental Petroleum kidnapped by National Liberation Army
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| Apr.17 |
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Rebels free most kidnapped
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| Apr.19 |
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Remaining hostages freed
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| Apr.26 |
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Mine explosion kills 15
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| May.4 |
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Car bomb injures 32
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| May.25 |
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Bomb blasts kill at least 4
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| Jun.2 |
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FARC inks landmark prisoner swap
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| Jun.15 |
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Car bombs| 2 Powerful car bombs exploded in rural Colombia wounding 16 people | |
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| Jun.28 |
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Tournament to be moved
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Guerrillas free 242 war prisoners| FARC made a gesture in front of U.N. to boost peace talks | |
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| Jul.5 |
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Copa America to be in Colombia
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| Jul.20 |
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Union sues Coca-Cola
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| Jul.24 |
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UN wants audit of cocaine spraying
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| Jul.25 |
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Mexico gets to Copa America final
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| Jul.26 |
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Colombia, Honduras, 2-0
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| Jul.27 |
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Smugglers caught burying cocaine
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| Jul.29 |
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Colombia wins Copa America Final: Colombia, Mexico 1-0
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| Aug.7 |
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Pastrana cuts off talks with rebels
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Consulate standoff ends peacefully
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| Aug.13 |
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3 IRA members held
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| Aug.21 |
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Colombia charges IRA members 3 men associated with the Irish Republican Army were charged with training FARC rebels
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| Aug.24 |
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Powerful bomb explodes in Medellin A blast in an upper-class residential neighborhood injured 10 people and partially damaged 100 homes
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Colombia arrest 4th Irish man 48-years-old was arrested at a roadblock outside the rebel-controlled zone
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| Aug.25 |
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Huge drugs cash haul $35m in cash from 2 apartments in Bogota was one of the largest seizures of drug money ever
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| Sep.27 |
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Clashes kill 17 people The fighting between Marxist FARC guerrillas and far-right paramilitaries erupted near the town of Briceno
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| Sep.29 |
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President cancels FARC trip A. Pastrana has cancelled a visit to rebel-controlled territory
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| Sep.30 |
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Murder strains peace| The murder of C. Araujo, the attorney general's wife and a former culture minister, has shaken the peace talks with FARC | |
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| Oct.5 |
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Agreement with FARC Government has reached an agreement with the left-wing rebel group to rescue the peace process
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| Nov.7 |
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Drug ring broken up Secret police said it broke up a cocaine- and weapons-smuggling ring linked to right paramilitaries
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| Nov.22 |
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Landslide at mine kills at least 23| 50 are missing after mudslides, triggered by heavy rain, swept over an abandoned gold mine | | |
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| Nov.29 |
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12 people massacred Right-wing paramilitaries shot 8 victims after being taken from their homes. 4 bodies were found in nearby town
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| Dec.2 |
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Rightist admits 1990 assassination Carlos Castano confessed in a book that he was responsible for the killing of a presidential candidate
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| Dec.18 |
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Colombia mourns tragic cancer boy Andres Felipe Perez, 12, has died after appealing in vain to see kidnapped father's face for one last time
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| Dec.21 |
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Dialogue with rebels resumes Government is resuming formal talks with 5,000-strong National Liberation Army