BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Forty-five soldiers have been let go after being surrounded by hundreds of civilians who blocked them from leaving a village in a coca-growing region of southwestern Colombia, ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Hundreds of people surrounded and kidnapped 45 soldiers working to implement programs to replace illicit crops in the southwest of Colombia, in an area of influence of a rebel ...

Colombian authorities have rescued 27 out of 72 soldiers who were held captive in the southwest of the country in an area controlled by rebel fighters and a key zone for cocaine production. In a ...