Famed French-Colombian ex-hostage Betancourt in divorce proceeding

September 19th, 2009 BOGOTA - Colombia has extradited a captured leftist guerrilla, the ex-girlfriend of a jailer of high-value captives rescued last year, and nine other suspects to the US. Nancy Conde Rubio, alias Doris Adriana, who is accused of serving as logistics coordinator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was the girlfriend of Gerardo Antonio Aguilar, one of the jailers of three kidnapped US military contractors freed in a dramatic operation on July 2, 2008.

September 19th, 2009 Colombia extradites captured guerrilla to USBOGOTA — A captured leftist rebel who unwittingly helped officials rescue 15 hostages — including three American military contractors — was bundled aboard a plane to Florida on Saturday to face charges of terrorism in a U.S. federal court.

September 15th, 2009 BOGOTA - A FARC guerrilla who guarded 15 high-value hostages, including former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt who was rescued by the Colombian military last year, has surrendered, the army said. The guerrilla, known as "Angelo", turned himself in to soldiers in Miraflores, a hamlet in the southern province of Guaviare, and requested protection.

September 7th, 2009 BOGOTA - The Colombian army has found proof that several hostages held by the FARC guerrilla group, including some kidnapped in 1998, are alive. A man who was carrying the information in a USB computer memory stick has been arrested, an official has said.

August 18th, 2009 Videos of rebel-held hostages released in ColombiaBOGOTA — Videos of nine hostages held by Colombian rebels were turned over to their families Monday as proof they remain alive. Videos of six Colombian police officers and three soldiers were obtained by Sen.

July 16th, 2009 Amy Winehouse, Blake Fielder-Civil granted divorceLONDON — Amy Winehouse and Blake Fielder-Civil have been granted a divorce by a judge in London. The judge approved the divorce decree for "Fielder-Civil B.

July 16th, 2009 FARC jailer in Colombia extradited to USBOGOTA — Colombian authorities extradited to the United States on Thursday a rebel "jailer" captured in last year's storybook rescue of three U.S. military contractors and ex-presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt.

July 1st, 2009 Limbo for Colombia family seeking hostage releaseBOGOTA — A year after Colombian military agents disguised as international aid workers helicoptered Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors to freedom, an offer by their former leftist rebel captors to unilaterally free two hostages is in limbo.

April 16th, 2009 BOGOTA - Colombia's leftist guerrilla rebels Thursday announced they would soon unilaterally release a soldier who has been in their captivity since December 1997. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) said that Corporal Pablo Emilio Moncayo would be turned over to the Colombians for Peace organisation which is led by opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba.

March 17th, 2009 BOGOTA - Colombia's former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who was held captive by rebels for more than six years before her release in July last year, is seeking divorce from her husband Juan Carlos Lecompte, a media report said. Betancourt, who has a dual French-Colombian citizenship, will begin divorce proceedings from her husband on the basis of their defacto separation during her more than six years of captivity under the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), EFE reported Monday.

February 5th, 2009 CALI - The leftist guerrillas of Colombia have released a former legislator they had taken hostage in 2002, the EFE news agency reported Friday. Sigifredo Lopez, a former regional legislator in the Valle del Cauca province, arrived in this southwestern city of Cali Thursday to a tumultuous welcome from family and friends.

February 3rd, 2009 VILLAVICENCIO - Leftist rebel guerrillas in Colombia have released a former provincial governor they had held hostage for more than seven years, EFE news agency reported Wednesday. Alan Jara, former governor of the central Colombian province of Meta, was brought to Villavicencio, a city near capital Bogota, in a Brazilian helicopter Tuesday hours after Yves Heller, spokesman of Red Cross Colombia, announced Jara's release.

February 1st, 2009 VILLAVICENCIO - Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group has released three police officers and a soldier it had been holding hostage, EFE reported Monday. The four security forces members, who were kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2007, were handed over to the mission led by opposition Senator Piedad Cordoba, activist and writer Ivan Cepeda, a spokesman for the non-governmental organization Colombianos por la Paz said.

January 30th, 2009 BOGOTA - Colombia's largest leftist rebel group will free from its captivity six hostages, including two politicians and security personnel, EFE reported. The hostages will be released in three stages, Colombia's Senator Piedad Cordoba said, adding that the four security personnel would be freed Sunday, while former governor Alan Jara and former lawmaker Sigifredo Lopez would be handed over Monday and Wednesday, respectively.

January 3rd, 2009 BOGOTA - The Colombian Army has seized a huge cache of explosives belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in southwestern part of the country, EFE reported. Soldiers have found 432 grenades of different types in a FARC hideout in Paez Belalcazar City in Cauca province, the army said in a statement Sunday.