...including illicit wiretapping. Whether that is true is unclear. State Department officials say no one at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota knew about the wiretaps. And President Juan Manuel Santos, who took office last year after the spying controversy erupted...
...In 1910, Japan annexed Korea, which remained under Japanese colonial rule until 1945. In 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogota, Colombia, for the start of the first papal visit to Latin America. In 1985, 55 people died when fire broke out aboard a...
...exact price was not disclosed. When White Pass sold the locomotives in 1992 to Sociedad Colombiana de Transporte Ferroviario in Bogota along with 176 flat cars, they were considered surplus, Cyr said. The railroad closed that year after it lost the freight...
...come to blows ... and I mean literally stand up and start punching each other, over something like the mean temperature in Bogota in November." The family took its National Geographics very seriously. When he was 9, England's father died and life was...
...exact price was not disclosed. When White Pass sold the locomotives in 1992 to Sociedad Colombiana de Transporte Ferroviario in Bogota along with 176 flat cars, they were considered surplus, Cyr said. ``They hadn't been used since 1982,'' she said...
...about bicycle advocacy and hoping to bring in a couple of mayors that have had successful bicycle transportation planning in Bogota and Brazil," Spencer said. "Hardly any American bands tour in Mexico, and certainly no bands tour in Mexico riding their...
...narcotic trade and designated by many countries as a terrorist organization. Jones, who moved to Juneau from Colombia's capital Bogota roughly five and a half years ago, said FARC has continued to cause problems across the globe through its actions. "I would...
...for a mistake by their opponents. If this proves true, it will be a boring World Cup,'' Rodolfo Bello, El Espectador, Bogota, Colombia. -``It should have limited to 24 teams. There are too many make-weight teams, which makes it easier for...
...uphill struggle to win U.N. backing for war with Iraq. Colombian guerillas bombed the exclusive El Nogal social club in Bogota, killing 36 people and injuring 160 others. In 2007, U.S. officials confirmed a new security operation was under way in...
...summit in the Dominican Republic, Colombia's police chief Gen. Oscar Naranjo had told me in a long telephone interview from Bogota that his country had invited a team of forensic computer experts from Interpol's headquarters in France - the team includes...
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