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Colombia suspends peace talks with FARC after general kidnapped

BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday suspended two-year peace talks with the country's largest rebel group, the FARC, as the military investigated the suspected abduction of a general and two others.

Costa Rica ranks 83rd in the world for doing business

Other countries are outpacing Costa Rica when it comes to improving the ease of doing business, according to a press release from the World Bank. The World Bank's 2015 Doing Business report ranked Costa Rica 83rd out of 189 economies in the world for ease of doing business – down five spots from 2014 due in part to an adjustment of the annual study’s methodology.

Remember that Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Colombia? Turns out there’s more to the story.

The Secret Service took the hit, while the White House covered its tracks.

Cops seize an arsenal in Heredia and arrest a Tico linked to the Sinaloa Cartel in Colombia

Costa Rican cops seized grenades and an RPG7 from an Heredia home near a high school on Friday.

Colombia arrests FARC rebel accused of helping kidnap 3 US contractors

Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Tom Howes were rescued on July 2, 2008 in an operation that also saw the liberation of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 11 other hostages.

Colombia president supports allowing medical marijuana

BOGOTÁ, Colombia – President Juan Manuel Santos signaled his support Thursday for a bill that would allow the medical use of marijuana in Colombia. The ruling Liberal Party proposed the measure for a vote in the current session of the Colombian Congress, which opened July 20.

Brazil’s presidential election draped in mourning

Twenty years ago, when he debuted in national politics, Eduardo Campos, the Brazilian presidential hopeful who died in a plane crash Wednesday, was easy to underestimate. With his elegant suits, camera-ready smile and pale-blue eyes as big as fog lights, the junior legislator from the northeastern state of Pernambuco seemed a better fit on the set of a soap opera than in the two-fisted arena of Brasilia.

Victims’ issues come to the fore in Colombia peace talks

BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Farmer Elver Montano has a long tale of pain and uprooting to tell as Colombia's peace talks turns to the 5.3 million victims of Latin America's longest armed conflict.

Q&A: Behind the Colombia-FARC talks

BOGOTÁ, Colombia – Four years ago, when Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to open a secret channel to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas, only three people knew. One was Sergio Jaramillo, Colombia's high commissioner for peace, who was the government's strategist for peace talks with the guerrillas.

Rodríguez rocket earns Colombia a clash with Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – James Rodríguez knocked Luis Suárez out of the headlines with an exquisite goal as Colombia beat Uruguay 2-0 on Saturday to set up a World Cup quarter-final against hosts Brazil.

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