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...ongoing terrorism and economic instability that plague Colombia have hampered progress on human rights issues and undermined the country’s government, a panel of experts on the Colombian situation said last night...
Father Francisco De Roux, winner of the Colombian National Peace Prize, spoke about the effects of programs such as the development and peace initiative that he runs...
...Colombian Connection A report by a Congressional committee stirred diplomatic consternation in Belfast and elsewhere after it named the I.R.A. as part of a global terror network based in Colombia. The report, compiled after a nine-month investigation, accused the I.R.A. of training Colombian guerrillas alongside Iranians, Cubans and possibly Basque separatists. Refusing an invitation to appear before the Committee, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he was satisfied with the I.R.A.'s denial that it had sent anyone to train rebel groups in Colombia. "Irish Republicans pose no threat to U.S. national-security interests in Colombia," he added...
Santos arrived at Harvard in 1991 shortly after being kidnapped and held for eight months by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Santos, who had been working as a journalist for Colombia’s largest newspaper, El Tiempo, studied at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. During that same year, Uribe came to Cambridge to study business administration at the Extension School. The two met and became acquainted at dinners for Colombian students during the six months that their stays overlapped...
Santos returned to his post at El Tiempo—which is currently owned by Santos’ family—while his future running mate and former dinner companion Uribe followed his political aspirations and became the governor of the Colombian state of Antioquia. Fate brought Santos closer to a political career in 1996, when he participated in a march against kidnapping in Antioquia, where Uribe was governor. “Back then, Alvaro committed himself body and soul to these marches,” Santos says. “My wife, who also knew Uribe...