Colombian police have captured a guerrilla suspected of killing a U.S. military contractor and a Colombian soldier after their surveillance plane crashed in the jungle in 2003, authorities said Saturday. Judicial police director Luis Ramirez alleged that Jose Armando Cadena Cabrera, who went by the nom de guerre ...

Injured in their plane's crash-landing and then taken hostage by Colombian rebels, three U.S. defense contractors survived a jungle odyssey lasting more than five grueling years. After the hardships and pain they endured, Americans Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes were awarded ...

The heroic status of former hostage Ingrid Betancourt takes a hit in a book published Friday, with fellow ex-captives describing the French-Colombian politician as domineering and even treacherous. Three US men who were held by Marxist FARC guerrillas in the Colombian jungle for more than five years wrote in "Out of Captivity" that Betancourt, a former Colombian presidential candidate, was ...

Three Americans held captive by Colombia's leftist rebels for 5 1/2 years published a memoir Thursday full of wrenching survival stories and unkind words about Ingrid Betancourt, the most famous hostage who shared their jungle prisons. The chronicle of the U.S. military contractors' 1,967 ...