Politician and ex-Farc hostage Clara Leticia Rojas González said in an interview to Caracol Radio that she questions the authenticity of some of the documents presented by the authorities in order to state that she and Ingrid Betancourt were aware of the danger to enter the Caguan on February 23, 2002. She declared also that the authorities were not completely clear of the risk.

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A march against Ingrid-sue-attempt

On 2010/07/14, in Conflict, Politics, by Albeiro Rodas

3,972 Colombian facebookers have joined an invitation to participate in a march against the sue-attempt of politician Ingrid Betancourt against the Colombian state as responsible for her Farc kidnapping between 2002 and 2008. Her intention of what she called a ‘conciliation’ with the Colombian government, brought a spontaneous condemnation inside and outside Colombia from several sectors.

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Ingrid lies, said Gen. Arcesio

On 2010/07/12, in Conflict, Politics, by Albeiro Rodas

The former commander of the 4th Division of the Colombian Army, Gen. Arcesio Barrero, said that politician Ingrid Betancourt lies. ‘I warned her that there were fighting in the area and that there were not guarantees for her security if she moved to San Vicente del Caguán,‘ he said to the press.

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The warning to Ingrid

On 2010/07/12, in Conflict, Politics, by Albeiro Rodas

In this file the Administrative Department of Security, DAS, warned the 2002 presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, of the risks she would assume if she entered Florencia and San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá. The file has been released to the public by officials.

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The former FARC hostage, Ingrid Betancourt and her family, would sue the Colombian State for her abduction. She presented a document of 55 pages where she makes responsible the officials of the army in the State of Caquetá of her retention by the Marxist rebels.

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Latin America in 2008

On 2008/12/22, in Economy, Politics, by Albeiro Rodas

The International Center of Fairs and Conventions of San Salvador on October 2008, the place of the 18th Ibero-American Summit. Photo Wikimedia Commons.

2008 was the last year of the economic boom of Latin America that started in 2003 and was slowed by the world financial crisis, according with the economical regional institute for Lat. America, CEPAL. However, it is the region of the world better prepared to face the global economical recession thanks to that boom.

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It is necessary military action against the guerrilla,” said the former hostess of Farc, Ingrid Betancourt in her visit to Bolivia. “The guerrilla is completely back to the Colombian reality“, “They became a drug cartel“, “They lost their ideologies and their leaders became bourgeois due to the benefits of the drug traffic“, were the words of Betancourt to the Bolivian press.

Picture by Fabio Gismondi.

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When the door is closed, God opens the window

The Yes of the President is the answer to a national and international call” (Mgr. Castro, President of the Colombian Conference of Bishops)

The Farc must answer in a constructive form” (Nicaolas Sarkozy, President of France)

The government waits the biggest surrounding of guerrilla troops of the history of the Farc” (Caracol Broadcasting citing Frank Pearl, top presidential councilor.)


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Bogotá – ColPas. Nobody can predict President Uribe. He uses to be at the center of hot critics from opponents inside and outside Colombia, object of admiration by many others and expectations by those who follow with care the long Colombian conflict. Apart of any kind of hot position at his side or against him, true is that Uribe has been the most influential Colombian president of his country and the region in the last 50 years, the same time the modern Colombian conflict has taken its place in history. A man of strong decisions based in history, with any fear to face journalists, political opponents and even other international leaders, Uribe amazed many with his last decision to say Yes to the proposal of the Colombian Catholic Church to open a zone in order to facilitate the so waited human interchange.

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