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7/30/2005 : Thousands of letters sent to hostages in Colombia.
This month more than 3,600 letters were sent from Europe to Bogotá in Colombia as part of the "Aéropostale 3000" campaign launched in Europe by the International Federation of Ingrid Betancourt Committees, in partnership with the French town of Chambery.
7/29/2005 : Colombia ready for talks with rebels
The announcement marks a change in government policy which had previously ruled out any deal that would see imprisoned guerrillas return to the ranks of the insurgency.
The change in policy was made after Alvaro Uribe, the president, met the families of the kidnapped.
7/28/2005 : Colombia seeks hostages' release
Colombia's government has said for the first time it is ready to hold talks with Farc rebels, in an effort to get about 60 hostages released.
7/23/2005 : Colombian rebels free soldier in gesture on hostages
Colombian Marxist rebels have freed a soldier captured a month ago in what they called a peace gesture aimed to pave the way toward an exchange of about 70 hostages including Ingrid Betancourt, for guerrillas held in jail. The hostages also include policemen, soldiers, politicians and three U.S. Defense Department contractors captured when their light aircraft crashed on a narcotics reconnaissance mission in 2003.
7/22/2005 : Betancourt family request that the Colombian government meet FARC.
Astrid Betancourt, sister of Ingrid spoke on Radio Caracol and requested that the government meet with FARC. She confirmed that President Alvaro Uribe approved a recent meeting between the envoy sent by the French president, Jacques Chirac and the FARC spokesperson Raul Reyes in an effort to obtain the liberation of hostages.
7/21/2005 : French pressure Farc over hostage
The French government, with the blessing of the Colombian authorities, has made contact with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) rebels.
7/20/2005 : French emissary met Colombian rebels over hostages
A French government emissary has met Colombian rebels to explore a possible exchange of hostages including a former presidential candidate and three Americans for guerrillas held in government jails, an official said on Wednesday.
7/19/2005 : ICC Called to Investigate War Crimes in Colombia
7/15/2005 : President Uribe must not ratify impunity law
In a meeting with Colombian president Alvaro Uribe today, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said that ending impunity is the key for the protection of human rights in the country and urged the President not to ratify the Justice and Peace Law.
Amnesty International is concerned that the Justice and Peace Law, recently approved by the Colombian Congress, will guarantee that those responsible for the most barbaric human rights atrocities, be they paramilitaries or guerrillas, will never be brought to justice.
7/14/2005 : Colombia's drug untouchables
Language matters in the war on terror. Since George Bush launched his global crusade against evil, there has been an opportunistic rush by less than democratic governments to rebrand their internal problems as local adjuncts to the Bush project. President Alvaro Uribe of Colombia, one of the most vocal of these opportunists will be in London today, where he will be received by a British government that now reportedly ranks second among his sources of military aid.
The visitor is Uribe's visit offers the unusual spectacle of a British red carpet being rolled out for a man who, as mayor of Medellin, the drug barons' "sanctuary", allegedly accepted funds from the notorious trafficker Pablo Escobar. Uribe's father, Alberto, was wanted in the US on drug trafficking charges when he was killed in 1983.
7/12/2005 : To the French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin
In the publication "Revista Cambio", an open letter to the French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, by the Colombian senator Antonio Navarro Wolff, a Colombian senator, former manager of the ex-guerrilla movement M19 and former minister of Health under Cesar Gaviria.
7/6/2005 : Colombia's capitulation
Colombia has just passed a law to demobilize paramilitary fighters, which the government calls the "Justice and Peace Law." It should be called the "Impunity for Mass Murderers, Terrorists and Major Cocaine Traffickers Law."
7/1/2005 : Human Rights Group wants investigation by International Criminal Court
A human rights coalition has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate alleged war crimes by Colombia's main paramilitary group.
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), said the right-wing AUC militia had committed 2,000 atrocities since December 2002.
The FIDH also condemned laws setting out incentives for the AUC to disarm, saying they amount to an amnesty.
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