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Boca’s Cardona, Barrios back to training after scandal

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Juan Carlos Velasco Cano, Colombian national, sentenced for bribing ICE agent in narcotics probe

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2017 file photo, President Juan Manuel Santos speaks during an event marking one year since the signing of the peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at Colon theater in Bogota, Colombia. Santos said new rebel attacks Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, have prompted him to recall his chief negotiator to peace talks with the country’s last remaining insurgent group in a setback for efforts to end a half-century of political violence in the South American nation (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan, File)

Colombia negotiator: New cease-fire still not out of reach

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is making his third bid for the Mexican presidency. His rhetoric has been compared to Donald Trump's. (Associated Press/File)

Latin America voters face presidential elections next year

By Frederic Puglie - The Washington Times

Witness: Exec said Qatar had up to $15M available for bribes

By RONALD BLUM - Associated Press

Colombia's Edwin Cardona, second from left, fights for the ball against South Korea' Lee Jae-sung and Son Heung-min, left, during their friendly soccer match at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Cardona apologizes amid racism storm in South Korea

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

South Korea' Son Heung-min, second from right, fights for the ball against Colombia's and Davinson Sanchez and Abel Aguilar, right, during their friendly soccer match at Suwon World Cup Stadium in Suwon, South Korea, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Son scores 2 to give South Korea 2-1 win over Colombia

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Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, has shown himself to be a shrewd political operator. (Associated Press/File)

Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, FARC leader, runs for Colombia president

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Ivan Marquez, a former leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, announces that their one-time top commander, Rodrigo Londono, will run for president in next year's election during a press conference in Bogota, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Marquez also announced the names of other nine former rebel leaders who, with him, will fill 10 seats in Congress guaranteed to the FARC political party on a temporary basis as part of last year's peace deal. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)

Ex-rebel commander Timochenko to run for Colombia presidency

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Tottenham Hotspur's Son Heung-Min, right, gets away from Manchester United's Ander Herrera, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, at Old Trafford, in Manchester, England, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP)

South Korea picks Premier League stars for World Cup warmups

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2004 file photo, Ricardo Palmera, known as Simon Trinidad, a leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, shouts out as he is escorted by soldiers, at a military base in Bogota, Colombia. Palmera, who was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 60 years in 2008, for helping hold three U.S. contractors hostages, signed on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017 a document pledging to confess his war crimes to Colombia's special peace tribunals. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)

Colombia rebel held in US makes jailhouse pledge for peace

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

US loses to Colombia 3-1 at Under-17 World Cup

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Argentina's Lionel Messi reacts during a World Cup qualifying soccer match against Peru at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Argentina tied the match 0-0 and is almost eliminated from the upcoming World Cup in Russia. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Get out the calculators: Argentina may miss World Cup

By RICARDO ZUNIGA - Associated Press

Argentina's Lionel Messi screams in disbelief after playing Peru to a 0-0 draw in a World Cup qualifying soccer match, at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. The draw leaves Argentina almost out of the upcoming World Cup in Russia. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina slumps to 0-0 draw; verges on missing World Cup

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A man walks past a fence with graffiti depicting Argentina's soccer legend Diego Maradona in the town of Volkhov, 130 km (80 miles) east of St.Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Brazil is in; Argentina still fighting for a World Cup spot

By STEPHEN WADE and RICARDO ZUNIGA - Associated Press

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos locks the final container holding weapons once carried by guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, at a demobilization site in Fonseca, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Former rebels finished turning over their individual weapons in late June. Since then, they have been locked up and guarded by U.N. observers. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

UN removes last container holding Colombia rebel weapons

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Mike Pence tries to strike balance on Venezuela

By Jill Colvin - Associated Press

Venezuelan Bolivarian National police move away from the flames after an explosion at Altamira square during clashes against anti-government demonstrators in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 30, 2017. The explosion injured several officers and damaged several of their motorcycles. The officers were then seen throwing several privately owned motorcycles into the remaining fire in reprisal. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuelan corruption seen aiding South American illegal drug surge

By Nicole Ault - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2017 file photo, weapons belonging to rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, are stored at a rebel camp in La Carmelita near Puerto Asis in Colombia's southwestern state of Putumayo. The United Nations began removing containers on Monday, July 31, 2017, holding weapons from demobilization zones where the arms were handed over by former fighters for Colombia’s largest rebel group who are beginning life as civilians under a peace agreement. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

UN begins removing rebel weapons from camps in Colombia

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