Uribe's Colombia: The dark side of a country transformed
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Uribe's Colombia: The dark side of a country transformed

Bogotá : Colombia | Aug 06, 2010 at 1:42 PM PDT
Source: The Guardian
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Scott Dalton/AP The rule of thumb on Colombia 's country roads used to be that if no cars were coming the other way, leftist rebels had probably blocked the highway to trap potential kidnap victims...So every time he set out with a cargo of chocolate or rice, he would entrust himself to Our Lady of Carmen,... FULL ARTICLE AT The Guardian
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