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4/29/2007 : Colombia: Paramilitary Scandal, Crimes, and Media ‘Coincidences’
El Tiempo recently devoted its crime and law section to a shocking special on paramilitary crimes, titled Colombia looks for 10,000 people, which includes some grisly pictures. In one of the articles, Francisco Villalba, a.k.a. Cristian Barreto, who participated in the Ituango massacre in 1997, has confessed to making use of the Justice and Peace law, some of the atrocities hat happened on his “training” three years before:
4/28/2007 : In video kidnapped Colombia lawmakers urge talks
Twelve Colombian lawmakers held hostage by leftist guerrillas sent a message on Friday to President Alvaro Uribe urging him to enter into talks with rebels over their release after five years in captivity.
4/25/2007 : Colombia's kidnapping industry examined in Panama
First action of the FICIB committee in Panama : a couple of dozen people of several nationalities gathered in the French Embassy's cultural lounge to learn about a disturbing aspect of Colombia's chronic violence and demand the liberation of those held for ransom in Colombia by armed political organizations and ordinary criminal gangs.
4/22/2007 : Chirac calls on Chavez to help secure Colombia hostage Betancourt's release
Outgoing French President Jacques Chirac asked his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez on Friday to help secure the release of one-time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, Chirac's spokesman said.
4/21/2007 : Colombia Scandal Creeps Closer to Uribe
A leading opposition senator said Tuesday that far-right paramilitary fighters established their hold over the province of Antioquia while President Alvaro Uribe was governor of the region.
4/19/2007 : Colombia accepts temporary cease-fire with ELN rebels
The Colombian government has accepted to implement a temporary cease-fire with the National Liberation Army (ELN) insurgency, the South American country's peace commissioner said on Wednesday.
4/16/2007 : Internal displacement crisis worsens
In Colombia, the conflict remains active and has caused the world’s second-largest internal displacement crisis after Sudan.
4/13/2007 : Thousands March Against Colombia Bombing
Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Cali on Thursday to protest the bombing of the city's police barracks, blamed on Colombia's largest leftist rebel group.
4/2/2007 : Colombia begins to investigate massacre at `peace community'
Atty. Gen. Mario Iguaran announced in late February that 69 members of the army's 17th Brigade were being called in for questioning about the killings, which continue to spark international outrage and could jeopardize U.S. aid to Colombia.
The investigation comes as Colombian President Alvaro Uribe suffers his worst political crisis since taking office in 2002.
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