Article: Plane searching for three missing Americans crashes in southern Colombia

Article: Wreckage of Ecuadorean airliner found in southern ...
AP Worldstream;  January 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... people on board near a volcano in southern Colombia on Tuesday, an Ecuadorean official ... was found near Chiles Volcano, in southern Colombia near the Ecuadorean border. There ... near the volcano as it circled over southern Colombia before making its final approach ...

Article: Conflict intensifies in southern Colombia.
United Press International;  October 12, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... back up its military confrontation with FARC rebels in southern Colombia. The United Self Defense Forces of Colombia -- known ... over these regions of the country. AUC has expanded into southern Colombia over the past year and a half from its traditional stronghold ...

Article: Bomb blast kills 15 people in southern Colombia
Xinhua News Agency;  February 15, 2003 ;     328 words ...Bomb blast kills 15 people in southern Colombia BOGOTA, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- A huge explosion killed 15 people and destroyed two blocks in the southern Colombia on Friday, when Colombian police raided a bomb-filled house to foil an assassination ...

Article: Rebels in southern Colombia kill nine civilians in ...
AP Worldstream;  February 26, 2006 ;     480 words ... ... Leftist rebels killed nine people Saturday in an attack on a passenger bus that defied a guerrilla-imposed traffic ban in southern Colombia, authorities said. Insurgents with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, fired several shots at the ...

Article: Security forces battle rebels in southern Colombia
AP Worldstream;  June 2, 2002 ;     254 words ... ... 00-0000 Dateline: BOGOTA, Colombia Four soldiers and an unknown number of rebels were killed in fighting in southern Colombia on Sunday. The battle broke out on a rural road near the town of Doncello, 360 kilometers (250 miles) south ...

Article: Nine Cocaine Labs Destroyed in Southern Colombia ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  March 16, 2000 ;     293 words ...Colombian military forces have destroyed nine cocaine processing laboratories in southern Colombia and detained four suspects, National Navy commander told the press Wednesday. Twelve tons of coca leaves were destroyed and 5 ...

Article: Three paramilitary factions disarm in southern ...
AP Worldstream;  February 15, 2006 ;     519 words ... ... paramilitary fighters from an outlawed group handed in their weapons and renounced violence Wednesday in a ceremony in southern Colombia, peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said in a statement. Separately, the U.S. Embassy in Colombia said it would ...