Colombia

Colombia's government has mobilized its soldiers and helicopters in the hunt for Roman Catholic Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez, one of Colombia's leading clergymen, who was kidnapped along with another priest while traveling north of Bogota, the Colombian capital, last Monday.

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Colombian drug lords to go free

Government fury as judge grants Cali cartel leaders release from jail for good behaviour

Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá
Sunday November 3, 2002
The Observer

»Two of the world's most notorious drug lords could be free in Colombia within days after a judge granted them parole for good behaviour, a decision that has surprised and infuriated the government.«

http://www.observer.co.uk/drugs/story/0,11908,825117,00.html

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With dramatically beautiful rainforests, mountains and beaches, lovely cities and enchanting people, Colombia should be among the world's most attractive and intoxicating destinations.

Unfortunately, the current guerrilla war, combined with ongoing activities of cocaine cartels, has made much of Colombia – dubbed »Locombia« (the mad country) by the press – off limits to all but the most foolhardy travelers.

Troops backed by helicopters searched mountains north of Colombia's capital for one of Latin America's leading Roman Catholic bishops, whose kidnapping a day earlier generated outrage around the world.

The search Tuesday failed to produce news of Bishop Jorge Enrique Jimenez's whereabouts, but officials expressed confidence he would not be in the hands of his captors for long.