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...COLOMBIA Highway Kidnap Consuelo Araujo, a former culture minister and the wife of Colombia's attorney-general, was kidnapped at a roadblock near Valledupar, 675 km north of Bogotá, along with 10 traveling companions. Police suspect that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which demands huge ransoms to help finance its insurgency, was responsible...
...force jets bombed rebel positions in the north of the country in retaliation. COLOMBIA Irish Visitors Three alleged members of the Irish Republican Army were arrested and formally charged with providing training to local guerrilla forces and using false documents. The men were seized at an airport in Bogotá as they prepared to leave the country. Colombian authorities said the suspects could be held for eight months while the state prepared its case. A series of attacks, including a powerful car-bomb blast in Medellin, underscored the country's vulnerability to terrorism...
Squat, gray and fortress-like, the twelve-year-old U.S. embassy in Bogotá is designed to withstand the most withering of terrorist bomb attacks. The building was put to the test last week: a white Fiat, packed with 33 Ibs. of dynamite, exploded just outside the employee parking lot. The blast killed a Colombian woman standing near by, knocked down several 50-year-old eucalyptus trees and blew out windows in a 15-story office building a block away. But it did not crack a single pane of the shatterproof glass in the embassy or injure...
That sort of security is useful nowadays in Bogotá. U.S. and Colombian authorities believe the bombing was the work not of leftist, anti-U.S. terrorists, but of a powerful Colombian drug mafia intent on discouraging recent efforts by the two governments to curb the country's multibillion-dollar cocaine and marijuana industry. In response to a U.S.-Colombian move to extradite 78 Colombian dealers to face charges in the U.S., unnamed drug barons three weeks ago threatened to kill five Americans for every Colombian extradited. Colombian police believe that the prime target of last week...
...devastating consequences of the debt bomb's explosion will not become reality. There is still time to save several developing countries from chaos and several international banks from insolvency. The recent increase in the U.S. prime rate makes this more urgent. Diego Pizano Economic Adviser to the President Bogotá, Colombia...