
Noemi Sanin won Sunday's Conservative Party primary and will be the party's presidential candidate in the May 30 election, Colombian radio station Caracol reported Friday afternoon.

Noemi Sanin won Sunday's Conservative Party primary and will be the party's presidential candidate in the May 30 election, Colombian radio station Caracol reported Friday afternoon.

Spanish opposition leader Mariano Rajoy commended president Alvaro Uribe on improving Colombia's human rights record during his administration, following a meeting with the president on Friday.

Authorities from the central Colombian department of Cundinamarca announced the release of sixteen members of the national army who were being investigated for committing extrajudicial murder of a youth in the municipality of Soacha.

Police in the western Colombian department of Cauca announced two separate attacks within the department by guerrilla group FARC in the last 24 hours.

The Colombian ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS) walked out of a meeting after Ecuador requested that the OAS pass a resolution condemning Colombia for its 2008 attack on a FARC camp on Ecuadorean soil.

Colombian guerrilla group ELN kidnapped three politicians active in the country's Partido de la U, in the western department of Arauca, close to the Venezuelan border.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced on Thursday that his government will accept an annual human rights review in order to move forward with a free trade agreement with Canada.
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