The recent liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from the FARC rebels in Colombia seems to put President Alvaro Uribe in the driver's seat.
Does this mean that the FARC can be wiped out militarily or is this a good time to negotiate a peaceful settlement after decades of civil war? Is the U.S.-backed counterinsurgency campaign against the leftist rebels helping or hurting the other campaign to undercut the nation’s drug lords?
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