FARC

Police said they had confiscated computers from the Farc rebel group, showing they were trying to obtain uranium in Europe.

The FARC, while severely weakened and mostly confined to remote areas close to Colombia's borders, is still capable of damage.

Even as he strengthened the FARC militarily, however, Mr Cano kept the door open to peace talks.

He said he sympathised with the FARC.

At least 16 policemen were killed in a homemade mortar attack by FARC guerrillas on a rural police station in north-west Colombia.

Colombian forces bombed a guerrilla camp just across the border in Ecuador, killing one of the FARC's senior commanders.

Special forces ' soldiers came across the caves after a five- year- long hunt for the secret hideout of a top Farc commander .

Despite the government's military gains against the FARC guerrillas, plenty of money still needs to be spent on security and reparations.

FARC's kidnap and murder of a provincial governor in late December was a grisly throwback to the bad old days of a decade ago.

The killing of Mr Reyes, a member of the FARC's seven-man secretariat, underlined the point.

Nearly a year later, she wanted to meet with the people of the Revolutionary2 Armed Forces3 in Columbia, which is also known as the FARC.

The same used to apply to Colombia, where drug money allowed the communist FARC guerrillas to outlast the end of the cold war.

Mr Santos is hardly a dove, but he argues that the only way to get Venezuela's help against the FARC is to normalise relations.

The raid took place in the western province of Choco, the goal is "the FARC" Ivan Rios Group under the jurisdiction of the 57th Front.

Some Brazilian officials look askance at Colombia, whose military build-up against the FARC has the backing of the United States.

That broke the conveyor-belt in which underworld gangs seized victims and passed them on to FARC units near the cities.

The Colombian army says it has shut down the main radio station operated by the Farc left-wing rebel group after 15 years on air.

Yet they were thwarted when Colombia declined to join because of its neighbours' equivocal attitude to its FARC guerrillas.

He reiterated his denial that the FARC are active in his country. That flies in the face of overwhelming evidence.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union says it is delighted with the recent release of two Colombian hostages kidnapped by the FARC guerrilla group.

Tests have been carried out on one of four bodies Farc after military planes bombed a suspected Farc camp.

He persuaded thousands of right-wing paramilitaries to disarm, and has inflicted probably mortal blows on the FARC guerrillas.

The Colombian military had been closing in on the Farc rebels that were guarding the hostages in the southern region of Caqueta.

Although Mr Cano's death may make it harder for the FARC to resume peace talks, it also makes it easier for Mr Santos to propose them.

It confirms that Manuel Marulanda, the FARC's veteran leader, is still alive and apparently in overall command.

And it was a disaster for the FARC and its sympathisers in Latin America who hoped to use the hostage issue to weaken Mr Uribe.

Bogota apologized for the raid, but said it is a necessary part of its struggle against the FARC rebels.

But the FARC insists on the creation of a "demilitarised zone" in which talks should take place.

The response of the FARC, the main guerrilla army, was a wave of attacks and ambushes.

Then Manuel Marulanda, the FARC's founder and undisputed leader, died, supposedly of a heart attack.

This was to discuss the release of FARC hostages, said Ecuador.

In half a dozen cases, soldiers were found to have planted bombs supposedly left by the FARC.

There's no connection between the guerrillas who fought the Contras and Al Qaeda, or Colombia's FARC and Somali pirates.

There is no evidence that Mr Correa himself knew about any FARC donation, and he denies that any existed.

The security chief in charge of protecting the top commander of Colombia's left-wing Farc guerrillas has been killed by government troops.

And we ran into a FARC patrol at dawn, so it was quite harrowing.

At the end of the farc job, a clear fluid flush is pumped down the well to clean the well of proppants.

The hostages were regional legislators who had been held by the FARC for five years.

Few issues are more sensitive for Mr Uribe than the alleged sheltering of Colombia's FARC and ELN guerrillas by its neighbours.

For now, though, Mr Santos is focusing on the fight, keeping up military pressure until the FARC has a change of heart.

The security forces say the device was planted in the town centre by the country's largest left-wing rebel group, the Farc.

But he also persuaded the Colombians to free a top guerrilla from the FARC, considered a terrorist group by America and Europe.

Most of them were planted by the FARC and some by a second guerrilla group or right-wing paramilitary gangs.

This would give him time to finish off the FARC and complete his rescue of Colombia, supporters say.

Four Chinese nationals have been kidnapped by the rebel faction, FARC, in Colombia, the Chinese embassy has confirmed.

The FARC still hold several hundred hostages, including a score of army and police officers and two politicians.

Government officials also say it receives training and support from Colombia's FARC guerrillas.

Surveillance of the northern border, almost non-existent before the Colombian bombing raid on the FARC camp, has been stepped up.

The FARC are often seen as mere criminals who have outgrown any genuine ideology.

(The FARC made a sham of the 1999-2002 peace talks by using their "safe haven" territory as a military training ground).

These days, the FARC attacks are often carried out by a growing network of urban-based militias.

The kidnapping and killing shows, however, that the FARC is likely still kicking.

The Colombian army killed Alfonso Cano, the leader of the FARC guerrillas.

Colombia's FARC guerrillas abducted 23 workers at a Canadian oil company in the eastern jungle region of Vichada.

He recently said "everyone knows" the PT is connected to Colombia's FARC guerrillas and to drug-trafficking.

His government claims to have dismantled more than 200 FARC camps.

In fact, the so-called Farc rebels were informants working for the US drug enforcement agency.

The Colombian armed forces say they have killed a senior commander of the Farc rebel group.

Colombian officials have long said that the FARC was wealthy through drug money.

The security forces in Colombia say left-wing Farc rebels have shot dead four hostages.

It also shows the FARC's cynicism about the plight of its hostages.

The army also rescued Ingrid Betancourt, the FARC's most famous hostage.

In many areas of the country they have reached accommodations with the FARC, which is also heavily involved in drug-trafficking.

The documents also cast light on the FARC's strategic thinking.

The FARC are in some ways a throwback to a past era in Latin America.

But the FARC is far from defeated.

indeed, they have sought alliances of convenience with the FARC and the ELN.

Police have shut down 56 outfits controlled by the FARC or the neo-paramilitaries, arresting 573 people.

It could allow the FARC to claim vindication for their 45-year war and finally seek peace, he says.

If the FARC are defeated, who are the mafia attacking us? Or, is it that they haven't been weakened as the government claims?

He had shaved his signature beard and moustache. It is the first time in the FARC's 47 years that their chief has fallen.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)